I have decided for the latter.
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DIY water softener vs professional job
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This is a DIY group, what was wrong fitting it yourself?
Rather than from an outfit that neatly forgets to mention much of the running costs as well as a ridiculous comparison of online prices with buying local. How much did they pay for their salt?
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Fitted one of these many years ago.
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Cheap salt sacks from Costco That said, when it was EMWC branded not Harveys it was a bit cheaper IIRC. I'd still fit the same model again if I ever moved house though.
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8kg of block salt about £35 or £4.38 per kilo. 25kg tablet salt £11 or £0.44 per kg
hard decision.
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last time I bought it it was less than that. About £7-8 IIRC.
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The water softener market seems to be very uncompetitive. Standard softeners havn't changed for years, and the controller head and resin tank can't cost anywhere near what they (and others) charge for them.
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I fitted a MegaSiemen water purifier at our old lab, so I should have the skills.
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It's a luxury item - no one needs one, and rather few people have them. Therefore, it's a low volume high mark-up market.
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On the contrary everyone in hard water area needs one.
Do you really want to be replacing heating coils every few years, have scaled up shower heads and taps and loos encrusted with lime, and spend a fortune on generating soap scum instead of a lather?
Probably the most imnportant bit of plumbing you will ever install.
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In message , Peter Parry writes
25kg tablets from my builders merchant, ?20/3 bags including VAT- Vote on answer
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Indeed - it will pay for itself over time. plus Mrs M will love the soft water she enjoys on holiday.
Our Ca is a sky high 274 mgm-3
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The reasons we didn't install one:
Nowhere convenient to fit one; Kept expecting to move "real soon now"; Almost everything was already scaled up, at least to some extent.
The reason we won't now install one: We moved to a fairly soft water area.
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If you lived in a hard water area, you'd know why people need one.
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When refitting our kitchen, I removed a piece of iron pipe qqite straight and about 4 ft long. I couldn't see through it. I'm not sure how the water made it.
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Agreed!
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We thought we had hard water in Bedford. And then we moved to Norfolk. And added a water softener to the new kitchen spec.
(The water is also very heavily chlorinated. It's disgusting.)
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Proper valid reasons.
Payback is long term, and dependent on being on hard water
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He just e-mailed me - £1500 incl VAT and fitting.
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Thats a lot. Unless there is extensive pipework needed to be installed.
I think you can do it for less. I fitted mine in about a day, and it was about £400. So £600 is what you should pay.
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On Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:57:47 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wro te:
Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding domestic water softening for yo ur home.
We supply top of the range Harveys MiniMaxM2 block water softeners which a re factory set to suit the hardness of the water in your home.
The cost of the softener is £1250 including VAT and installation costs are dependent upon the complexity or otherwise of the position of incoming mains water to the house, but generally the installation is around £1
80 to £200.The running costs are minimal, assuming that there are only two of you in the house the cost of salt would be around £60 to £70 per year with no other running costs.
The benefits derived from the installation of a quality softener in house w ith hard water far outweigh the initial investment and you can expect the e quipment to have paid for itself after about 2.5 years with on going cost s avings in the normal consumables such as washing powder, dishwasher tablets , soap, shampoo and descalers.
You will no longer have problems with the build up of limescale in pipes, your boiler, hot water tank and kitchen appliances such as washing machine and dishwasher the lives of which will be greatly extended.