Water making station in garage

[VJV]

Hi, I would like to setup a RO/DI and Saltwater making station in my garage. Problem is the garage does not open to the outside, but rather to a common underground area that connects all the garages in the condominium. This means that there is very little aeration and diesel and petrol fumes generated by the family cars are not easily ventilated.

The stuff I keep in the garage after a couple of weeks has a fine layer of black dust.

So the question is: can I keep such a station in that environment and still have fresh unpolluted water? My plan would be not to have any wires coming out of the barrels so that they would be almost air tight. However, it cannot be completely air tight otherwise it would create a lot of back pressure on the RO/DI system, I guess.

One alternative could still be to slightly open the barrels when making the RO/DI and the close them tightly afterwords.

Would you say this would work or would there still be a risk of poisoning the water with diesel and petrol fumes?

Many thanks for your inputs

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Not sure if you have any other options, but this one doesn't seem good to me.

 

[Captain Quint]

Hi, I would like to setup a RO/DI and Saltwater making station in my garage. Problem is the garage does not open to the outside, but rather to a common underground area that connects all the garages in the condominium. This means that there is very little aeration and diesel and petrol fumes generated by the family cars are not easily ventilated.

The stuff I keep in the garage after a couple of weeks has a fine layer of black dust.

So the question is: can I keep such a station in that environment and still have fresh unpolluted water? My plan would be not to have any wires coming out of the barrels so that they would be almost air tight. However, it cannot be completely air tight otherwise it would create a lot of back pressure on the RO/DI system, I guess.

One alternative could still be to slightly open the barrels when making the RO/DI and the close them tightly afterwords.

Would you say this would work or would there still be a risk of poisoning the water with diesel and petrol fumes?

Many thanks for your inputs

^^^ +1 with the master of water chemistry on this issue.

IMHO, I would be leary with the circumstances you describe. I do have my unit in my garage which is private and I only keep my 2 Harleys and store stuff in it. I never start by bikes in it and I don't have the issues you may face.

Do you by chance have a laundry room in the condo that you could utilize to use your RODI unit? Thanks.

 

[VJV]

Each house is a private villa but the individual garages (private) all communicate to a larger underground “park”, if this makes sense.

There is no common laundry room. I currently have it set up in a bathroom in the attic of the house, (3rd floor). It has the added benefit that it all works via gravity (I only have to extend a hose from the tanks to my tank two stories down and open a tap) but I took over the shower area of that bathroom...

I guess I will just continue as I am now...

Thanks for the advice anyway [emoji4]

 

[Captain Quint]

Each house is a private villa but the individual garages (private) all communicate to a larger underground “park”, if this makes sense.

There is no common laundry room. I currently have it set up in a bathroom in the attic of the house, (3rd floor). It has the added benefit that it all works via gravity (I only have to extend a hose from the tanks to my tank two stories down and open a tap) but I took over the shower area of that bathroom...

I guess I will just continue as I am now...

Thanks for the advice anyway [emoji4]

Sounds like you actually have a great method. But it never hurts for us to inquire. We all seek advice from time to time and its how we learn. Thanks for the thread, someone will learn from it for sure.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Hi, I would like to setup a RO/DI and Saltwater making station in my garage. Problem is the garage does not open to the outside, but rather to a common underground area that connects all the garages in the condominium. This means that there is very little aeration and diesel and petrol fumes generated by the family cars are not easily ventilated.

The stuff I keep in the garage after a couple of weeks has a fine layer of black dust.



So the question is: can I keep such a station in that environment and still have fresh unpolluted water? My plan would be not to have any wires coming out of the barrels so that they would be almost air tight. However, it cannot be completely air tight otherwise it would create a lot of back pressure on the RO/DI system, I guess.

One alternative could still be to slightly open the barrels when making the RO/DI and the close them tightly afterwords.

Would you say this would work or would there still be a risk of poisoning the water with diesel and petrol fumes?

Many thanks for your inputs

If I live there, try to treat garage as a lab. Trying to contaminate very little, use latex gloves more. I would silicone a flat lawn Motor carb filter to lid for containers holding h2o, for air circulation . Use carbon if possible, run h2o through it before using. Because Condo, a good moveable fan in garage. Some ideas