Not Another Weep Thread!

[2Biz]

Currently my Weep Solenoid is plumbed into my Soft Water Supply line. During the coldest winter months, I'm running approximately 10K gallons a month thru my weep system.

Is there a reason to avoid hooking my weep system up to un-softened water? If I use water as it comes in from the street, I'm thinking it would save in three ways. Less wear and tear on the Softener, Less salt usage, and less waisted water during regineration.

 

[MEP001]

If the weep doesn't go through your pumps, there's no good reason to weep soft water. 10k gallons a month though, I'd start looking for alternatives to weep.

 

[2Biz]

We bought this wash in Feb. and realized shortly after that this might be an issue. But we finished the winter the way it was plumbed knowing I needed to look at it before this winter. I think I've posted our water/billing situation on here before. Running that much weep isn't much of an issue for us. We are billed for 22K gallons a month whether we use it or not. We did just reach 23K gallons in March, so nothing to get too excited about at the moment. Except for wanting to take the load off my Softener this winter. Thanks for the reply!

 

[soapy]

It might depend on were you live on how much weep water you use. 20 degrees might be the normal high temp for a day in my area. I have always weeped hard water with no adverse effects. One thing to do for sure is to hook up a weep miser if you do not have one already. That will cut your weep water by at least half. Or you could move to a warm weather state like Texas were they really don't see any cold temps to speak of.

 

[2Biz]

I live in Southern Ohio, so we can have pretty adverse weather. It can change pretty drastically from day to day. Saturday, high temps were over 100°, on Monday the high temp didn't make it to 65°! Talking about a shock to the system!

BTW...I do have a WeepMizer. Great little device! Couldn't see running a weep system without it.

I don't know about owning a CW in Texas. I was in Houston about a month ago on business (From My Normal Paying Job!) and a lot of the washes were boarded up. They told me they had like 1/2" of rain since January....Unless you live on a dirt road, your car stays pretty clean!

 

[MEP001]

I don't know about owning a CW in Texas. I was in Houston about a month ago on business (From My Normal Paying Job!) and a lot of the washes were boarded up. They told me they had like 1/2" of rain since January....Unless you live on a dirt road, your car stays pretty clean!

Yeah, we're in a really unusual drought condition. We just hit stage 2 mandatory water restrictions in which car washes are being checked at random. Parts of Houston have been badly overbuilt with washes for a long time, so it's no surprise they're closing up.

 

[Ghetto Wash]

car washes are being checked at random.

What are they checking for? Stage 2 in my area prohibits driveway washing without a positive shut off on the end of the hose, encourages washing at a professional wash.

 

[MEP001]

They check a number of things including SS bays not using more than 3 GPM, shut-off guns in use and RO reject recovered. Stage 2 here prohibits people from washing at home except on their designated lawn watering days.