DIY Home Water Filtration: Build and Service It Yourself
DIY home water filtration: install, service, softener and heater integration, plumbing, maintenance, and testing.
Water System Wiki
Your Home Water Care Guide
Water System Wiki
Your Home Water Care Guide
Category Water Softeners
Concise guidance on choosing, installing, maintaining, and optimizing home water softeners within the broader home water system, including impacts on water heaters, filtration, and plumbing.
Install and Wire Your Deep Well Pump: The Homeowner’s Guide to 2-Wire and 3-Wire Systems
Install and wire 3-wire or 2-wire deep-well submersible pump for home water systems, plumbing, softeners, water heaters, filtration.
How to Size a Tankless Water Heater and Calculate GPM for Your Whole House
Size your tankless heater and compute whole-house GPM, with steps for water softeners, filtration, and plumbing systems.
Submersible Well Pump Depth, Flow, and Pressure: A Homeowner’s Guide
Depth for submersible pumps; flow rate and pressure; impacts on softeners, heaters, filtration, plumbing, and water systems.
Installing PEX Water Lines: A Practical Guide to Methods, Fittings, and Tools
Install and connect PEX water lines: methods, fittings, and tools for home softeners, heaters, filtration, water systems.
Where to Install a Backflow Preventer: A Homeowner’s Guide to Location and Direction
Backflow preventer placement guide: correct location, orientation, for water softeners, water heaters, filters and home plumbing.
Sump Pump Height and Water Monitoring: Get It Right the First Time
Correct sump-pump height and water-level monitoring for home systems: softener, water heater, filtration, and plumbing.
Gas Water Heater Install: Your DIY Guide for A.O. Smith and Power Vent Models
Step-by-step install and startup for gas water heaters, A.O. Smith and power-vent models; safety, venting, gas line.
Water Heater Drain Pan Code: Your Installation Guide
Code-compliant drain pan/line: sizing, placement, slope, connections for water heater on home water systems; install steps.
How a Water Softener Works: The Simple Guide for Homeowners
How ion-exchange softeners remove Ca/Mg minerals; resin, brine regen, and impact on home heaters, plumbing, filtration, upkeep.