RO/DI Locations

I'm trying to figure out where to put my RO/DI unit.

Where do you guys put yours? Where do you store the water?

Thanks,
Clancy

 

This is one I'm ordering soon. But I need to figure out where to put it.

ReefKeeper Water | Aquarium Water | RODI Water | Reverse Osmosis TYPHOON III AQUARIUM RO DI 75 or 100 GPD

 

I put mine in the basement near my washer and dryer because:

1. I had an extra hose outlet thing there.
2. In case I over fill and we have an overflow problem, it's in my basement near the drain, not in the kitchen or wherever.
3. It's out of the way, I can make several jugs of water and not be tripping over them.
4. I can keep the salt in the basement and not have to make a mess upstairs.
5. Easy to run the drain line to a drain in the basement.

 

under kitchen sink. I have a faucet on sink(cooking ,drinking) then I have a 25' hose with a shut off that I run out to 30g trash can. Will fill can in 24 hours,not 25 hours opps. Best of both worlds.

 

When I get mine im going to put it in the laundry room. ( I dont mind Carrying water up the stairs) Also, I plan to build a tank into the wall in a few years after I switch to a better paying job. So the water would be right there.

As far as storage my plan is to use rubbermaid trash can with a ball valve towards the bottom so I can place a bucket under it and dispense my water into a five gallon bucket.

 

I'm waiting for a Kent Float valve shut off to arrive and then I'm mounting my 6 stage unit in the laundry room over the washing machine. The plan is to use a hose "Y" to split the cold water to the washer. Then off the free end feed the RO/DI unit which will feed a 18gal container I have behind the door. This will be equipped with the float valve so that I will always have around of 12 gallons of RO/DI water on hand and not have to worry about overflows when I'm not home or asleep.

This is of course the plan ... once everything comes, I'll post on how it works, pics, etc...

 

One more note they make a battery alarm for water. GET ONE. Put one by it so if it leaks you will know.

 

I don't have one yet so I just put my 5gal water jugs in a rubbermaid container in case they overflow. I do use the kitchen timer (it takes 2 hours and 15 minutes to fill a 5gal) to help too.

 

hook mine up to the shower. Just take the shower head off you can get an adapter at home depot for like 2.00. Works great since I don't have any other place to put it and if it leaks or over flows no problem its in the shower. 5 gal buckets leak tite lid.