Thanks guys for everything. But I'm pretty sure this chapter is closed.

Water guy called. Figures there is iron build up and need to clean the softener resin, so it's staying on bypass for now. In the mean time the low pressure from the problems was wasting the water. Since the system needs so much PSI to wash over the membrane the low psi made most of it divert.

The bladder should hold 4gl and take about half a day to fill, so impatient me has been the cause of why everything keeps running. Oh and it puts of 3gl of waste for every gl of fresh water, and does have a shut off when full.

The softener was used over a year ago and killed all my plants. My plain water has been used for the time since and kills all my plants. Water doesn't stink, or taste funny, just thought I would let you know.

But hey is there anything I can use the waste water for around the house? Like maybe buying another and having the waste stored to run out the outside taps for washing cars and filling kiddie pools in the summer?
Chronic Chrissy Reviewed by Chronic Chrissy on . R/O unit, Seems like simple question, can't find answer! First off i've been googling all night.... I just got a 5 stage R/O unit yesterday. We were going to wait till the weekend to set it up. However upon returning home my husband discovered my 2 year old's Goldfish trying to do the back stroke. So of course I have no more bottled water to change out his tank, it just made sense to set up the r/o and maybe save NEMO. We did id the easy way under the sink and they gave you these nifty pipe peircers to run it off the cold and back into the Rating: 5