{"id":864,"date":"2009-07-28T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2009-07-28T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:07:50","slug":"filters-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Filters Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our plumbing project is finished as far as we can take it right now.\u00a0 There are a couple of very minor leaks which may resolve themselves over time.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to keep an eye on things and see how it goes, and the buckets will live here for a while.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_865\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-865\" class=\"size-full wp-image-865\" title=\"filters\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/filters.jpg\" alt=\"From left to right we have a shutoff valve, a sediment filter, the water softener take, and then the conditioned water flows into the house.\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/filters.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/filters-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right we have a shutoff valve, a sediment filter, the water softener tank, and then the conditioned water flows into the house.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This system solved a number of problems.\u00a0 The shutoff valve and original house filter were both in the crawl space which is accessed by the door to the right of the filters.\u00a0 It was extremely difficult to change that original filter.\u00a0 We removed the original filter and left the filter housing in the crawl space as a means to drain the pipes.<\/p>\n<p>This new water conditioner is like a catalytic converter in that it changes the polarity of the calcium carbonate which is in suspension in the water, and makes it so that it won&#8217;t stick to anything like pipes or plumbing fixtures, or hair or clothes.\u00a0 The calcium carbonate is still present in the water, but it is not in suspension and just slides on through.\u00a0 Very cool concept.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_866\" style=\"width: 345px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-866\" title=\"filters2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/filters2.jpg\" alt=\"Unlike normal water softeners, this one requires no electricity, and it doesn't add salt to the water or contaminate ground water with saline.\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/filters2.jpg 335w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/filters2-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unlike normal water softeners, this one requires no electricity, and it doesn&#39;t add salt to water we are drinking or using, nor does it contaminate ground water with saline.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is a LOT of work pictured here.\u00a0 We need to build the door to the crawl space, seal the grout, remove the stovepipe and patch the sheetrock, complete the electrical issues like moving light fixtures and fixing the wiring in boxes, install closet doors to the laundry closet, and then do all the painting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s better than it was though, we have a floor that is possible to clean down there now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our plumbing project is finished as far as we can take it right now.\u00a0 There are a couple of very minor leaks which may resolve themselves over time.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to keep an eye on things and see how it goes, and the buckets will live here for a while. This system solved a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}