For whatever reason that I'm incapable of understanding, when my house was built in 2005-ish, the builder and owner at the time opted to not spend about $50 and put a soft water loop in while it would have been cheap and easy. As such, I have a main that comes in the side of my house with no real method of being able to install a whole house filter and softener without doing a lot of extra work.
I have 2 options -
1. Preferred option - tapping into the cold main in the attic above where it comes into the house and running overhead lines across attic and into my detached garage, through filter and back. Only problem is that I'm having a hard time finding the actual main where it comes through the attic - that is just me not taking the time I need up there to find it. More importantly though, I want to make sure I don't have branch lines coming off to feed my washing machine, sink, etc.
2. Tapping into the main underground prior to entering the house, running underground, under a sidewalk, punching through the side of the garage and through the filter and back. Probably the best overall, but I don't want exposed pipes on the side of my garage and chipping/drilling through concrete makes this much bigger of a project than I would like it to be.
My exterior is hardi-plank siding with what I assume is an OSB skin it is nailed to, so using any sort of detection equipment to look into the walls and get an idea of pipe routing from the outside is probably out. However, I should have access to the interior walls and am wondering if there is a device that is capable of doing what I would like that is somewhat cost effective and actually works.
I have 2 options -
1. Preferred option - tapping into the cold main in the attic above where it comes into the house and running overhead lines across attic and into my detached garage, through filter and back. Only problem is that I'm having a hard time finding the actual main where it comes through the attic - that is just me not taking the time I need up there to find it. More importantly though, I want to make sure I don't have branch lines coming off to feed my washing machine, sink, etc.
2. Tapping into the main underground prior to entering the house, running underground, under a sidewalk, punching through the side of the garage and through the filter and back. Probably the best overall, but I don't want exposed pipes on the side of my garage and chipping/drilling through concrete makes this much bigger of a project than I would like it to be.
My exterior is hardi-plank siding with what I assume is an OSB skin it is nailed to, so using any sort of detection equipment to look into the walls and get an idea of pipe routing from the outside is probably out. However, I should have access to the interior walls and am wondering if there is a device that is capable of doing what I would like that is somewhat cost effective and actually works.