Terrible Water in Phoenix

[nmadsen4]

Ok thanks for all the help. I read that other thread and I can't believe I've been storing water in a trash can and then transferring with a bucket. I feel like I've wasted countless hours of my life lol.

One thing I noticed is that people are somehow connecting a hose to a faucet inside the house? I know it's for temperature control but I don't have a indoor faucet close enough to the tank.... What do i do? This previously didnt matter because I was storing the water inside but now that I know i can pretreat and then just stick the hose in the tank, I am going to have issues with temp control.

 

[axs377]

Ok thanks for all the help. I read that other thread and I can't believe I've been storing water in a trash can and then transferring with a bucket. I feel like I've wasted countless hours of my life lol.

One thing I noticed is that people are somehow connecting a hose to a faucet inside the house? I know it's for temperature control but I don't have a indoor faucet close enough to the tank.... What do i do? This previously didnt matter because I was storing the water inside but now that I know i can pretreat and then just stick the hose in the tank, I am going to have issues with temp control.

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[xraycer]

Ok thanks for all the help. I read that other thread and I can't believe I've been storing water in a trash can and then transferring with a bucket. I feel like I've wasted countless hours of my life lol.

One thing I noticed is that people are somehow connecting a hose to a faucet inside the house? I know it's for temperature control but I don't have a indoor faucet close enough to the tank.... What do i do? This previously didnt matter because I was storing the water inside but now that I know i can pretreat and then just stick the hose in the tank, I am going to have issues with temp control.

Do you have a clothes washing machine in reaching distance from the tank?

 

[RD.]

Funny, when I think of nasty water it takes me back to the late 60's early 70's living along the shore of the Detroit River. At that time Lake Erie was considered by many to be dead. lol

Python also sells extension hoses, or you can DIY one as long as you want with potable hosing from your local Home Depot.

 

[Drstrangelove]

One thing I noticed is that people are somehow connecting a hose to a faucet inside the house? I know it's for temperature control but I don't have a indoor faucet close enough to the tank.... What do i do? This previously didnt matter because I was storing the water inside but now that I know i can pretreat and then just stick the hose in the tank, I am going to have issues with temp control.

A lot of people don't know this and I was in fact almost 40 when I discovered it, but (at least in the states), it's common for every house to have at least one faucet that connects to a common garden hose---inside the house. In my current house for example I have 7 faucets inside the house that will work (2 in the garage, 1 in the kitchen and 4 in my bathrooms.) The bathroom & kitchen faucets have a converter that can often be removed (with a wrench of course) and which will then allow a garden hose to be attached directly to it in the same way as one does outside. It simply has to be threaded by hand.

The ones in garages and laundry rooms look exactly like the outside spigots and work the same way. Some folks even have the old style double basins which have 2 spigots just waiting for a hose, because people used to do laundry by hand inside their house in the basins. (I know because when I was around 6 we had a double basin, a washboard and a clothes line so we could do our clothes.)

Understandably some homes have very elaborate and expensive devices on their kitchen sinks and sometimes in the bathrooms that perhaps one would fear to touch with a wrench, but one has to look through the house and often find useful spigots in plain sight. Try a laundry room or garage first as these are almost certainly going to have some. Half bathrooms (no tub or shower) will often have the far less expensive and simple sink attachments where a wrench will open up a spigot for a hose attachment. Just be sure to be careful in loosening the attachment as it may not have been moved for many years and don't use excessive pressure to re attach once you are done.

 

[nmadsen4]

I just watched a vid on youtube about the Python and I think I'm going to cry. so much pain and suffering for years and years. WHY? I cannot belief I did that to myself when such an easy alternative existed.

 

[xraycer]

I just watched a vid on youtube about the Python and I think I'm going to cry. so much pain and suffering for years and years. WHY? I cannot belief I did that to myself when such an easy alternative existed.

LOL think of it as a just a rite of passage

 

[Ihsnshaik]

A lot of people don't know this and I was in fact almost 40 when I discovered it, but (at least in the states), it's common for every house to have at least one faucet that connects to a common garden hose---inside the house. In my current house for example I have 7 faucets inside the house that will work (2 in the garage, 1 in the kitchen and 4 in my bathrooms.) The bathroom & kitchen faucets have a converter that can often be removed (with a wrench of course) and which will then allow a garden hose to be attached directly to it in the same way as one does outside. It simply has to be threaded by hand.

The ones in garages and laundry rooms look exactly like the outside spigots and work the same way. Some folks even have the old style double basins which have 2 spigots just waiting for a hose, because people used to do laundry by hand inside their house in the basins. (I know because when I was around 6 we had a double basin, a washboard and a clothes line so we could do our clothes.)

Understandably some homes have very elaborate and expensive devices on their kitchen sinks and sometimes in the bathrooms that perhaps one would fear to touch with a wrench, but one has to look through the house and often find useful spigots in plain sight. Try a laundry room or garage first as these are almost certainly going to have some. Half bathrooms (no tub or shower) will often have the far less expensive and simple sink attachments where a wrench will open up a spigot for a hose attachment. Just be sure to be careful in loosening the attachment as it may not have been moved for many years and don't use excessive pressure to re attach once you are done.

None of my faucets have it lol we upgraded them all before almost all of them had it. There is this shower in the basement no one uses but me for water changes and I just take the shower head out and make my own connection. Just snug it in there right with some tubing.

 

[Drstrangelove]

None of my faucets have it lol we upgraded them all before almost all of them had it. There is this shower in the basement no one uses but me for water changes and I just take the shower head out and make my own connection. Just snug it in there right with some tubing.

Rats!

 

[xraycer]

Do you have a clothes washing machine in reaching distance from the tank?

You never replied to this question, so I'll post my Frankenstein rig for access to cold and hot water for temp control....just an idea for anyone reading this who can apply this to their own set-up.