water softeners in the UK

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I lived in the UK most of my life and we had some kind of under-sink softner at one house, but unfortunately I don't recall the model now (and that was years ago anyway). I never saw those huge water-heater-sized softners until I moved to the US.

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Jules

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Throw a post out to uk.d-i-y, someone will be able to help.

I lived in the UK most of my life and we had some kind of under-sink softner at one house, but unfortunately I don't recall the model now (and that was years ago anyway). I never saw those huge water-heater-sized softners until I moved to the US.

cheers

Jules

Which is EXCESSIVE. What's wrong with drinking hard water? Here in Waterloo Ontario we use groundwater - quite hard - and I soften the water to the water heater, bath, and kitchen sink. Not the toilets, and not the "drinking water" tap in the kitchen. It has a rainfresh filter on it to take out chlorine etc. That's all. Great tasting water.

Hmmm, That is per code when a house has water softener installed. When plumber makes the pipe runs he leaves a loop where softener will be cut in. For drinking water I have a under the sink multi-stage RO system with UV light. It can produce upto ~25 Gal a day.