Water Wall

The mud room is where we have the water wall.  So the mud room has washer, dryer, whole house filter, water conditioner, tankless heater for the water and a utility sink.  It will also eventually have a standing freezer and a spare refrigerator but right now we are just dealing with what we have.  

This was another room that 2as giving us fits because of the way the plumber brought stuff in and connected it. A hodge podge mess for sure.  It's like nobody thinks about how they bring stuff in and how the people who own the home will deal with it.  We try very hard to not have to rely on someone else to fix stuff.  But we also know when we are out of our league and to ask for help.

I didn't take a before picture and should have because it was a real mess but we took it all apart and reworked everything so that it makes sense and we can cut off individual sections so if we have to work on something you dont have to shut the entire system down.

Water from the cistern comes into the house at 1.  Its then sent through the whole house filter.

From the whole house filter is gies into the water conditioner and then if hot water is required it goes into the tankless heater. Once it leaves the heater it goes into washing machine, guest bath sinks, bathtub, shower or utility sink.

Cold water is fed to the other side of the house at step 5.  There is another tankless heater in the linen closet in the master bath.  It will feed the dishwasher, kitchen sink, master vanity sinks and shower.  It just made more sense to have 2 heaters because of the long run the hot water would have to make.  

Some may be asking why we have a water conditioner ( softener) .  The reason behind that is the tankless heats up the water very quickly.  This requires a lot of heat.  We have very, very hard water with lots of calcium and minerals.  When this water is heated up quickly it developes calcium scale and that will ruin the heating elements in the tankless.  An expensive mistake we learned about 28 years ago with our first tankless.  Besides having softened water saves your clothes in that you dont have to use the amount of soap that you would normally have to in hard water.  Saves your diswasher, saves your washer, saves your plumbing fixtures.  It's just a great thing to have all the way around.