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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis - NxStage Users => Topic started by: PrimeTimer on August 28, 2015, 07:59:03 PM
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Question: Anyone know how to keep the blue water line to the Pureflow machine from twisting up like a pretzel? As many of you know, the blue line is not very pliable and so obviously, should just be left alone but...when not in use, I prefer to disconnect it from our faucet adapter (water source) in our apartment and very very gently coil it up in large loops and hang it over the back of a handle on a cart that I have sitting next to the Pureflow (I never actually disconnect it from the Pureflow tho). This works well except there is about 1-2 feet of it that likes to twist up like a pretzel and I am trying to think of ideas to keep it from doing this. I usually just leave the trouble area alone, as I do not want to bend/break/wear out the line and deal with leaks and disasters of the like but lately it's gotten on my nerves and I am determined to conquer "the pretzel".
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Check behind you pure flow. Make sure none of the blue lines are touching any other blue lines. I didn't do this, and the vibration (when the water is flowing) caused the lines to wear into each other over a number of months and eventually spring a leak.
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Only slightly off topic -
Check behind you pure flow. Make sure none of the blue lines are touching any other blue lines. I didn't do this, and the vibration (when the water is flowing) caused the lines to wear into each other over a number of months and eventually spring a leak.
To prevent wear-n-tear caused by rubbing and vibration noise, I keep a piece of gauze taped to the top of the black bracket that holds the sediment filter where one of the blue lines run across. And since the main blue line to our water source that runs along the floor likes to snuggle up alongside the black waste line in one area behind the Pureflow, I use a soft lightweight piece of cloth to keep them separated (I say lightweight because you don't want any weight pulling on them and their connections to the Pureflow). Now if I could just conquer the pretzel problem, I'd be happy. Thinking of using foam pipe insulation (if it's in-stock at the store this time of year). Otherwise, I may just give in and snake the blue line around the perimeter of the room like I do the black waste line and as Donald Trump says, "deal with it".
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If your blue line is long enough like mine, you can buy strips at DIY shops to hide speaker cables and tack those around the room.
Good luck, and love, Cas
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If your blue line is long enough like mine, you can buy strips at DIY shops to hide speaker cables and tack those around the room.
Good luck, and love, Cas
I've thought about using those cable holders but haven't decided. I don't want to keep the blue line connected to our faucet all the time and I'm afraid the cable holders will add too much weight to the line and that I won't be able to coil up just the end of it to hang/put aside somewhere. In other words, I'm afraid the cable holders may add too much stress to the line if I lift the end of it every day to coil up or hang. Darn...maybe I just have to keep the blue line connected to the faucet adapter all the time. Arrgg!
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Is there no possibility to make an extra water pipe faucet (like for a washing machine one?)
Love, Cas
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Is there no possibility to make an extra water pipe faucet (like for a washing machine one?)
Love, Cas
No. The faucet for our washing machine is in a utility closet and too far but that would be the perfect place for it tho since it also has a drain. I am thinking of using your idea (cable organizers) and just snaking the line around the perimeter of the room to the kitchen faucet like we've been doing, instead of coiling and uncoiling it between uses. Been doing that now for nearly 2 years and I'm afraid all that coiling could wear the line out and cause leaks. I don't mind putting it away each time so much as having it run through our living room but what the heck, we do my husband's treatments in the living room and so it pretty much serves as our "clinic" anyways. The other faucet we have is in the bathroom across from our bedroom but the bedroom is too cramped and I think that would be too depressing for him to do his treatments back there. So, we have his "clinic" set up in the living room where we can both sit and talk and watch tv together or I can talk to him or watch him from the kitchen if I cook while he's on. We store all the supplies in a tiny den area in the apartment. Basically, it's boils down to me having to accept things but, having a blue line run through the living room would be better than wearing it out and ending up with a flood! Thanks so much for your idea! It helps to bounce ideas off with other people and everyone here on the site is much more understanding of our situation than people who aren't going thru it.
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