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How many times have you flooded your room?

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Buffalowing

I'm now upto 4x after last night's incident and it's getting reallllly frustrating. Last night I went to make Ro/Di water and the clamp holding the waste water line into the sink got jiggled, I wandered off and came back 4 hours later to find water shooting all over the basement and roughly a centimeter of water on the floor. The other times I removed the washing machine tube from the sink since I was cleaning my 75 gal and since the sink backs up I didn't want it to drain into the washing machine, I than ran the washing machine and forgot to put the tube back into the sink, I did that 2x in a week resulting in water everywhere, another time a tank cracked.

My basement is 3/4's finished so inevitably the unfinished part fills w/ water and than seeps into the finished parts carpet, under desks, furniture, etc making clean up a PITA.
 
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Brian

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Officer Emeritus
Sounds like we have a new member of the flood club! I think I was the president of it at one time! lol

I can't tell you how many times I've flooded my basement!
 
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rafal07013

I have done more 5-6 times, and finally decided to end this misery and bought 35 gallon barrel. even if I forget to turn it off, i have about 10 hrs to correct my mistake. it has helped me to avoid 2 accidents in the last month or so. but would love to make this more controllable.

Brian said:
Sounds like we have a new member of the flood club! I think I was the president of it at one time! lol

I can't tell you how many times I've flooded my basement!
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hurtback

i don't feel so bad now--i've ONLY flooded my basement twice!!!! both times i feel asleep while filling the trash can i use for filtered water
the first time wasn't that bad--but the second time--water was on the floor from one side of the basement to the other--when the sump pump was going off that's when i woke up--as i was walking over to the sink to turn off the water, i uttered, under my breath, many, many expletives
since then it hasn't happened---knock on wood...
 
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vangvace

I flooded my laundry/pantry and kitchen something like 8 times while living in Utah. I turn the unit on to refill my jug, forgot about it and woke up to a flood. I was also living on the top floor of a 3 story apartment complex at the time. Now I put my container in the washing machine basin before filling.

In Jersey, I've only had two floods. One was my girls emptying the bathtub. The other... We have a little plastic tray thing that our washer sits in where we are staying now. It has a bulkhead in case of floods and down the drain the water is supposed to go. It turns out that the tray is a really cheap plastic and the washer tweaked it enough for water to get out.

Stupid RO unit... lol
 
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evoIX

flooded about 3-4 times already in a matter of a month. wife is going CRAZY having to wash our kitchen mats! ahaha.
 
B

Buffalowing

I don't feel so bad but still not sure it makes me any less aggravated at doing it :) I'm going to downgrade tank size for a bit, forgo the Ro/Di & just use bottled water from the supermarket. Not as ideal but for my piece of mind and ease I feel I need to do it this way for a bit. Parents have space to house all my tank gear so it will free up alot of space in my basement as well, I may convert the fish tank space to a play area for my son so it won't be for a bad cause.

What type of water would I buy from the acme? It's not distilled I want right?
 
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Brian

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Officer Emeritus
Buy a float switch to hook up to your drum. It connects to your RO/DI and will shut off when the water reaches the level you set the float at.

Have you tried looking for water @ your LFS? A lot of them sell RO/DI. That would be your best bet.
 
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Mbodell

I would def. go with brian's suggestion. I do the same thing and my drain line feeds directly into the sewer. You could also shoot it out into the back yard as well. So far I have never had any incidents.
 
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pgordemer

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Knock on wood, or should I say concrete- not yet.

Between Float valves, a water bug water alarm tied into an Aquacontroller. Come close, had a crack in the line to the water pump, but the water bug alarm triggered the AquaController to turn off the pump, so it was very little watter.
 
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vangvace

Buffalowing said:
I don't feel so bad but still not sure it makes me any less aggravated at doing it :) I'm going to downgrade tank size for a bit, forgo the Ro/Di & just use bottled water from the supermarket. Not as ideal but for my piece of mind and ease I feel I need to do it this way for a bit. Parents have space to house all my tank gear so it will free up alot of space in my basement as well, I may convert the fish tank space to a play area for my son so it won't be for a bad cause.

What type of water would I buy from the acme? It's not distilled I want right?
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Distilled is fine to use. Look at the labels too make sure they haven't added minerals back into the water. Avoid the culligan stuff though. Whatever water you buy, check it's TDS first.

Brian said:
Buy a float switch to hook up to your drum. It connects to your RO/DI and will shut off when the water reaches the level you set the float at.

Have you tried looking for water @ your LFS? A lot of them sell RO/DI. That would be your best bet.
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LFS RO is why I bought my own system. I don't want to knock any of our stores because I don't have any experience with their water, but the internet has given them a bad rep.
 
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Efrank

I know not everyone likes them but this is another great thing about the Red Sea all in one set ups, they don't leave you at risk of flooding because the filters PHs ect are all built into the back 15 gallons of the tank. If they go bad the water rises but not over the top.
 
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jeffro33

I flooded the kitchen with rodi water about five times but this was no big deal since the floor is linoleum but the big deal was when my wife called me at work midday and said there was water all over the newly laid hardwood floor.Come home to discover about forty gallons of salt water on my floor and a split in the seam of a 125 gallon tan.Well $800 later and a warped floor no recent problems other than a few drops here and there.I was lucky to have a 75 gallon bowfront in the garage to move all my fish and corals to.The live rock i stored in a large brine tank from a old water conditioner i used a couple power heads to circulate the water.This is certainly something i would not want experience again.
 
SirFragalot

SirFragalot

I have been in the market for an RO/DI unit and this flooding issue keeps coming to mind. I'm sure that no matter how many times I say that I will never forget, I know I will. I have a decent sized wooden shed that has electric and I was thinking of making it into a "water room" of sorts. No flooding issues in the house unless its from the tank itself.
 
tbaquatics

tbaquatics

SirFragalot said:
I have been in the market for an RO/DI unit and this flooding issue keeps coming to mind. I'm sure that no matter how many times I say that I will never forget, I know I will. I have a decent sized wooden shed that has electric and I was thinking of making it into a "water room" of sorts. No flooding issues in the house unless its from the tank itself.
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For RO systems they make a leak detector that can shutoff the water source upon any water detected on the floor.
They make a similar whole house system that shuts off the water at the main with remote sensors. You can put one by the water heater, one by the washer, one by the ro di, etc.
 
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