water hose from besement to main floor.

Abe · #1 09-02-2009, 03:58 AM

hello all, I recently purchased an automatic top up system. My problem is that i want to place my reserve container in the basement and my tank is on the main floor. Does anyone have any idea of how to run the water hose thru the wall to my sump. I dont want to drill a whole in my floor and I want to avoid running it beside the heat duct for looks purposes lol. so if you guys have any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanx.

hillegom · #2 09-02-2009, 04:04 PM

Well then, you will have to cut a big enough hole in the drywall of the wall, to be able to drill straight down from there.

Pescador · #3 09-02-2009, 05:24 PM

You can use a piece of coat hanger chucked in your drill to fish down between the baseboard and the floor to get the right spot then maybe put in one of those outlet boxes that doesn't need a stud.
Then you could use a cover plate like a cable outlet. Maybe use some JG fittings so you could shut it off and disconnect right at the wall plate.
If that makes sense.

Binare · #4 09-02-2009, 06:17 PM

Peel off your baseboard if you can. Drive a long nail straight down as close to the drywall as you can. Baseboard should cover the hole you made when its reinstalled. Go in your basement and hunt for that nail, once you find it measure 1.75 inches in towards the wall and drill straight up. Pickup a bb10 low voltage bracket and a drywall saw along with a single gang blank plate. Go back upstairs and on the wall lined up with the nail, trace the inside of the bb10, not the outside on the wall. Cut it out with the saw, install the BB10, fish your tubing up or down, drill a hole in the blank plate and slide it over the tubing and install. Take a plate off of a receptacle near by and measure the height of the box. Make sure your bb10 is the same height, again to the inside of the BB10. That way if you move the tank or sell the house you can just pop a new blank plate on and it won't stick out like a store thumb.

Make sure your plates are nylon, won't break or crack when you drill it. Buy two there cheap as dirt.

Pescador · #5 09-02-2009, 06:48 PM

Okay that was a way better explanation of what I was trying to say.

Abe · #6 09-03-2009, 12:43 AM

LOL Brian, well thanx guys, that was a greta idea, I will try to finish this project when I get the time, maybe on the weekend