Installing A Water Softener Without A Loop

A soft water loop is a copper piping system that reconnects your home’s internal water distribution pipes to the water softener. The main use of a water loop is to keep the inside and outside of home’s water systems separated.

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Benefits Of A Water Loop The main benefit of a soft water loop is that you can keep your home’s outside water lines separated from your home’s internal piping. Plants, grass, trees, and any of your other outdoor watering does not need to be with softened water. Plants are used to the minerals that are in hard water and are able to stand up to harder conditions. The piping infrastructure to your home’s external piping is easier to fix and of lower cost. On top of the cost of piping outside, there are no high-cost appliances that should be protected from the corrosive properties of hard water in your home’s external piping system.

Regenerate your soft water A water loop is extremely helpful in regenerating your home’s water lines with soft water. When your pipes are not in use the water can sit and collect particles. A soft water loop will keep the water flowing and regenerate the settled water with new and refreshed soft water. This is useful to get rid of buildup that is already existing in your pipes and appliances.

If you do not have a soft water system yet, you will want to consider also installing a water loop to improve the quality of your water. At Jason’s Water Softeners, we offer a free on-site water softener consultation so we can answer all of your questions about water softeners and how to install a water loop in your home.

What Does A Water Loop Look Like? Many homes have a water loop already installed. In this case installing a water softener will be very easy.

A water loop will appear as an extra copper pipe located on the wall nearby your water heater. You can tell that the copper pipe is a water loop if it has a cap on the end of it. A capped copper pipe implies that the water line is active or has water in it.

Installing a Water Loop Installing a water loop can be an easy task, but gets difficult in larger homes. Every home’s water distribution has a beginning and an end. The first step to installing a water loop is finding the end of the water distribution. In concrete slab homes, the water line can commonly be located in the ceiling or attic. The attic offers customizable and easily accessible space for improvements and modifications.

In a pier and beam home, the water lines could be in the crawl space of the home. In the crawl space, it is very easy to tell where the beginning and end of a water line is. Once the end of the water line is found the next step is plumbing a pipe that goes back to where the water heater is. It is universal that with most zoning codes that the water heater is in an area that can also be used to install a water softener. Getting Your Home Free Of Hard Water Is Easy With Jason’s Water Softeners it is just a matter of contacting us for a free water analysis. We will analyze the quality of your home’s water and determine the best way to get rid of your home’s hard water.

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Plumbers, is it reasonable and customary to include a drain as part of water softener pre-plumbing? Does the description 'water softener loop' mean ONLY the supply loop is included, or would you still install a drain? Background: Verbally, owner requested pre-plumbing for water softener. Plans show water softener in garage. Written specs include 'water softener loop'. This area has terrible water. Most builders install a supply loop and standpipe drain.

This plumber installed supply loop, but no drain. Builder said, 'Usually people just drain it to the washing machine standpipe. Trouble is softener loop is in detached garage, laundry is in main house. Builder says 'We can just go up and over the breezeway I don't think that is a good idea.

Code official agrees. Plumber said, 'nobody said anything about a drain'. Builder reluctant to remedy this problem at his cost, as drain wasn't in specs. I know there are several possible remedys, and we can discuss that later, for now, I 'd like to stick to the question at the top of post, whether this is reasonable and customary. Verbally, owner requested pre-plumbing for water softener.

Plans show water softener in garage. Written specs include 'water softener loop'. This area has terrible water. Most builders install a supply loop and standpipe drain. This plumber installed supply loop, but no drain. Builder said, 'Usually people just drain it to the washing machine standpipe.

Trouble is softener loop is in detached garage, laundry is in main house. Builder says 'We can just go up and over the breezeway I don't think that is a good idea.

Code official agrees. Quote: Plumber said, 'nobody said anything about a drain'. Builder reluctant to remedy this problem at his cost, as drain wasn't in specs. I know there are several possible remedys, and we can discuss that later, for now, I 'd like to stick to the question at the top of post, whether this is reasonable and customary. IMO The builder is incompetent and needs to supply a proper drain. The plumber only does what is on the work order. Below is a somewhat proper install, but the drain could have been better done (IMO).

Water softener loop means water loop only. NEVER means drain, that is a whole nuther thing.

Plumber did their job, specs were not complete. Around my area softeners are often drained in to floor drains with the appropriate air gap.

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OK, was the OP supplied a floor drain? If not, the builder is incompetent. How can you allow for supply when there is no allowance for drain? In this instance/example, the loop is just an interruption and continuation of supply to the rest of the house, whether it is tapped or not, correct. Maybe spec should read, plumb for possible future WS install?

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Now be gentle please as I am elderly and on a need-to know basis here. In Florida, it is rather common to pre plumb a softener loop, in the garage, which is normally on an exterior block wall. Through which it is really easy to poke a drain line to the exterior. This is common enough that it is easy to see how both the GC and plumber might not realize the need for a drain.

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Doesn't excuse the lack of a drain if one actually needs to be provided, but if you purchase a home that will be built by a production builder, you won't get the attention to detail that you might expect from a custom one-off builder. This is a high end custom home, builder was the HIGH bid, one house at a time guy. Owner (my folks) communicated needs and desires verbally and in writing. Builder drew plans and a contract including written specs. The verbal understanding that water softener pre-plumbing was to be included was very clear from the owner's point of view.

It was discussed on multiple occasions. Owner did not realize 'Water softener Loop' was only the supply, or she would have had that corrected on specs. As for sticking it through the wall of the garage, that is not permitted here. I'm not sure whether it is plumbing, health department or environmental agencies, but you can't drain water softeners to the ground, it has to go into the septic system.

I'm told they will look the other way if you install a french drain or rock well, but technically it is not permitted. A lot of mistakes were made during rough in which was very rushed. I think the builder knows he made a mistake and is trying to fall back on a technicality (specs) to avoid remedying it.