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Planning your Installation
Step 1 - Locate the rising main
If you don’t already know where this is it could be anywhere within the property.
There will always be one outside, but we are looking for the one inside which is the
point where the water enters the property before it branches off anywhere else.
This could be in the basement, garage, utility room, under stairs, under the kitchen
sink or somewhere else. The mains incoming stopcock usually has a yellow and
green earthing cable attached to it. If you are planning on installing this product
yourself, please make sure you know where the mains stop tap is in the street and
have the mains stop tap key if needed. In rare cases there can be more than one
entry point and some apartments have communal hot water, providing a cold water
and a hot water entry point. If this applies to you then please contact us.
Once you have located where your internal stopcock is and where the cold pipe
goes before it branches off around the property then you can plan where you are
going to install the MiniSOFT. Installation can occur at any suitable point before the
pipe branches off.
It can be plumbed directly onto the cold water supply to the property, protecting the
whole hot water system, or to an individual appliance.
Once you have located the area where the MiniSOFT will be fitted, check to make
sure you have enough room. Please allow at least two inches of clearance from
the bottom of the system to the floor to allow enough space to drop the bowl down
when taking it on and off to refill with media. If appropriate consider bypassing the
garden tap.
Do not install with an incoming water temperature exceeding 50 ⁰C
Step 2 - Check your water pressure
Incoming water pressure must be tested prior to
installation. You can do this using a mains water pressure
gauge (available online or at a local plumber’s merchants).
Your standing water pressure can increase dramatically
overnight by an additional 2- 4 bar when water usage
is low.
