Nothing I have seen before, house built around 1945 in Ottawa. Seems like some sort of relief valve.
Is there an outlet for discharge?
Also having a hard time seeing the connections so is that copper tube at the bottom feeding it or lead (Assuming it is placed before the meter).?
Looks like a bypass valve for a water softener but is not connected to one.
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I think it’s too old for a water softener. It is in line with the supply line and yes it’s copper Bob, there is a bypass line around it. the bottom of both rubber tubes appear to be a kind of filter or maybe a screen to hold back a blow-off? The agent with 20 years experience in the area never saw one before either. Also no threads inside bottom of tubes and I was a little apprehensive to touch the valve on the end.
Bypass it is.
Probably for a Culligan rental unit.
Thanks guys, we can go with that (water softener) Here is the dumb question: how long have water softeners been around? This thing looked very old.
We had one in the 60’s as a kid. Never really thought about it before, good question.
I do know about Ion Exchange and that most of the Resin is now made overseas.
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Charles what type water is up there?
They have been around since before I was a kid and go all the way back to when Brian was young.
Sorry Bob…can’t resist…wet for 9 months and frozen for 3 months.
Actually lots of iron in the Ottawa valley, about 7 of ten rural inspections have softeners the other 3 need one.
OK I am pretty sure they used them at that time and with a hard water area they would have been pushed fast.
Chicago is not much different though the last 10 years or so have been unusual with climate change.
It’s a bypass. I had over $10,000.00 in water treatment equipment when I lived in a rural area. Sand filter, iron filter and a water softener. Each was connected with a bypass. The iron filter was extremely high maintenance. Had to shut it down every 3-4 months, strip it down and clean it.
I never appreciated water as much as I do since having to deal with water that has high Iron content.
If the Iron is more then 3 PPM an iron filter is recommended before the water softener.