Well it's got to that stage on the house build where the new bathroom is about to be plumbed in, and I want to avoid the dreaded limescale.
Has anyone got any recommendations on a suitable water softener for a 5 bed house, with one bathroom, one en-suite, and the usual array of water guzzling appliances.
Any advice appreciated!
I'm happy with the one I've just bought. It is a twin cylinder water powered metered unit (the best type).
There are basically 3 different designs for ion-exchange water softeners.
Christian.
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I've got mine set with a 10% wastage factor built-in.
Reckon it costs me another bag of salt per year, but I never get hard water and saved a load of dosh on the purchase of a twin.
Your choice, 2 or 3 - don't buy a 1.
Try Permutit - has been atound for 3 generations, possibly America first
Dunno. I have one doing that job, but for the life of me I can';t remember what its called. # Uses a bag of salt a month.
Get one with a high flow a rate..
Paid about 600 IIRC. B
Whatever you do make sure that you take drinking/cooking water from a non softened tap!
Most water softeners will add a certain amount of sodium to the water which can be harmful to health.
sponix
Yes. Its almost as much as a packet of crisps adds..if you drink a whole bathtub.
Very dangerous, drinking a whole bathtub.
Umm... no.
There is more sodium in a slice of bread than several litres of softened water.
Of course, you may wish to eat other things than bread for health reasons, but the amount of sodium is not an issue.
It's still quite potable. They just don't recommend it for babies under 1 year old and people on an ultra-low sodium diet.
Compared to the amount of salt adding during cooking, it is nothing.
You are required to have a hard water tap in the kitchen, though.
Christian.
|> Whatever you do make sure that you take drinking/cooking water from a |> non softened tap! | |It's still quite potable. They just don't recommend it for babies under 1 |year old and people on an ultra-low sodium diet. | |Compared to the amount of salt adding during cooking, it is nothing.
We gave up cooking with salt years ago, except home made bread.
|You are required to have a hard water tap in the kitchen, though.
Not in my area, the soft water comes straight off the peat moors ;o)
So did I, even for bread. However, the salt that is naturally present in many ingredients far outweighs that you will get from ion-exchange softened water.
OK, not hard water, but not artifically softened...
Christian.
I wouldn't be too smug. ;-)
Some surveys show people living in soft water areas are more prone to heart trouble than in hard water ones.
A statistic somewhat skewed by the deep fried Mars Bars in Glasgow, I suspect!
Christian.
Firstly, I haven't got a water softener (yet) but did discuss such device at a trade show ... the stand-guy said it's a requirement to have a tap off the rising main .... although I'd interpreted this to mean a (drinking) tap _within_ the kitchen and adjacent to the sink the guy said the regulations didn't _actually_ specify this (and an external garden tap would meet the literal requirement!). {Don't try this at home, children!]
This reminds me of a tale from water-board man I knew (before they all became owned by foreigners and transmogrified into 'companies') ... apparently there was a village serviced by his water board with water extracted from a 'well'. On assay the water was determined to have a surfeit of xxxx! What was the effect of imbibing xxxx by the inhabitants(customers)? Apparently, the villagers' life expectancy would be limited to seventy-five years! What did the water-board do about the problem? Nothing, nada!
That's Glasgow, the land of deep fried pizzas and Mars bars and excessive smoking.
Even so, naturally soft water isn't higher in sodium.....
IME, the deep fried pizzas were better. However, it was the peat content coming out of the tap which gave the water real body and a unique taste.
Regards Capitol
Glasgow is the only soft water area in the UK?
Dunno what the reason or theory is.
We did too.
Why exclude home made bread? We don't use salt there either.
No, although it does seem that most of the reports about increased CHD emanate from there.
Umm..yes.
It has a cumulative effect.
Southern water (and I assume other water boards) insist on a seperate unsoftened tap so as not to breach the water supply regulations.
sponix
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