Hot water through my ro unit!

[magikof7]

One of my kids used the kitchen sink and instead of turning on the cold water turned on the hot. I thought it was off (usually they leave it off) and went out for an hour.
So I come home to a flooded kitchen and a bucket full of hot Ro/Di water.

Do I consider it wrecked and order all new filters and membrane?

[11purewater]

If you have a cartridge style tap sound like you're getting bleed back from the hot, also you might have destroyed your membrane and DI resinhow is this plumbed exactly?

[magikof7]

it is hooked up to the sink he had to turn off the RO unit to use the sink. he turned on the hot and cold then turned the Ro unit back on. but what went into the unit was all hot.

[11purewater]

To the sink spigot
?or the cold feed?

[magikof7]

to the sink Spigot. Im thinking If I buy a new unit I'm going to ignore Hubby and hook it upto the cold water line.

[11purewater]

you should find a cold line and plumb a saddle valve like on your humidifier or a 3/8 to1/4 adaptor if there's flex tubing on the cold feed of that tap.

[MMAX]

Originally Posted by magikof7

to the sink Spigot. Im thinking If I buy a new unit I'm going to ignore Hubby and hook it upto the cold water line.

That's the way it should be hooked up

[11purewater]

Yes Ignore the hubby,that's my wife's rule of thumb!thing is She's usually right dammit

[gregzz4]

I installed one of these valves on my cold line and am really happy with it
Also, if you don't have one, my unit came with this drain saddle setup and it works great. Just be sure you install it above the p trap

[magikof7]

It is difficult to hook up to a line when you live in a small place and are facing some major Renos. It is one of the reasons I have been putting it off, that and hubby argued against it, although he didn't really have a reason why not. lol
Until today it works rather well for me as it is.

lol...Us wives are more clever than we get credit for.