Searched the forum, got close but not quite what I was looking for.

Bought a house a few months ago. We're on Muni water but there's a softener here. It has not been used in 15+ years. I'd like to remove it, and the house is new enough to be plumbed with PVC/CPVC so it appears to be an easy enough job.

There is a shut-off valve in line and it is currently closed/bypassed (as much as I can get it shut. It has corroded over the years).

Question, can I just cut can cap the in/out pipes, or do I have to loop them?

how about a photo of the softener connections so we can answer that question?

From the wall, In to a shutoff valve, to the in side of the softener. Out of the softener to a spigot, back into the wall:

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Standard plastic hand-tightening compression connections at softener:

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You are kind of miserly with your photo, so I cannot tell if there is an integral bypass next to those nuts, but if not, you have to reconnect the two pipes together.

You won't be able to cap the pipes, either cut them and tie them together or put the service valves in by-pass mode, if applicable.

Tell me what you need to see a pic of and I'll take more. The back of the softener head?

NC Plumber, thanks. I'm in Florida, and this is in the garage. The in/out comes from the ground outside, through the garage wall, then in/out of the softener. If I need to tie the in/out together, I'll do it outside the garage to free up the (minimal) space a loop would have in the garage. Thanks again.



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yes, and wherever they "disconnected" to run to the softener is where you want to take it apart and reconnect the piping there.

You must have low water pressure to be using pvc. What is your pressure from the street?

It looks like CPVC, not PVC, which is proper.

No clue what it is from the meter at the street, but it's 60 at all outside spigots.