Installing A Water Softener With No Floor Drain

A softener drain line must not be connected directly to the waste system but must be emptied into a laundry tray floor drain or properly trapped special outlet preserving an air gap of at least two times the diameter of the drain line but in no case less than 1 1 2 above the top of the receptacle used.

Installing a water softener with no floor drain.

In most communities it is illegal to connect the water softener drain directly to the home drain system without an air gap. By code water softeners must be emptied into a laundry sink floor drain sump hole or properly trapped special outlet preserving an air gap of at. The only drain that is available is four feet across and about two feet above the floor level where washer drain is connected to. This is to prevent non potable water from flowing backwards possibly mixing and contaminating potable drinking water.

The power cord transformer needs to be plugged into a 110v continuous live outlet. Installing water softener in basement no drain. The problem is there is no drain line in the basement nor a utility laundry sink since our laundry room is on the 2nd floor of our house. Often the drain lines are run to a floor drain but you can also extend the drain line into the standpipe that also drains a washing machine or into a utility sink or sump pit.

Installing water softener without floor drain i want to add water softener but there is no floor drain.