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Hey there, I am planning to potentially add a gate valve to a Red Sea system. The stock plumbing is metric and so that requires unions / conversion fittings to switch over to US pvc plumbing.
that said I was thinking it might be easier to plumb the gate valve to connect directly to my sump down pipe - see the area I’m thinking to connect to circled red below.
I don’t really ever see this configuration so I’m wondering if there is a reason I am missing that this wouldn’t work or would be Ill advised (admittedly I have very little plumbing expertise).
below is a more standard configuration where the valve is placed vertically on the drain pipe from the tanks overflow.
The only reason I would want to change this standard configuration is that it would be much easier to fit the conversion union on the pipe vertically off the drain line - but this wouldn’t leave much room for the gate valve due to the sump height.
That’s why it would be better to just attach the gate valve to the sump directly in my scenario.
thanks for the input!
Standard gate/ball valve placement that I referenced above - I would want to use a metric-to-US conversion union here instead of the valve
that said I was thinking it might be easier to plumb the gate valve to connect directly to my sump down pipe - see the area I’m thinking to connect to circled red below.
I don’t really ever see this configuration so I’m wondering if there is a reason I am missing that this wouldn’t work or would be Ill advised (admittedly I have very little plumbing expertise).
below is a more standard configuration where the valve is placed vertically on the drain pipe from the tanks overflow.
The only reason I would want to change this standard configuration is that it would be much easier to fit the conversion union on the pipe vertically off the drain line - but this wouldn’t leave much room for the gate valve due to the sump height.
That’s why it would be better to just attach the gate valve to the sump directly in my scenario.
thanks for the input!
Standard gate/ball valve placement that I referenced above - I would want to use a metric-to-US conversion union here instead of the valve