I purchased a home last year and insisted on a comprehensive water test. The test showed 3 items of concern, but my inspector insured me that those items were as a result of the water softener which he did not bypass to get a sample. I accepted those answers but am now not certain that they were accurate.
In the last several months living here I have found the water to taste bad, poorly lather and leave a salty residue on washed dishes. I have had a (non-copper) pipe corrode and leak and a minor flood from a supply line nut corrododing away and coming free.
To recheck the test results, and to make sure I am setting my softener correctly I brought a sample of water to my counter health dept that I bypassed the softener to get. I requested a hardness test and a corrosivity test and I am concerned by the results, the TDS in particular.
LSI: -0.75 Alkalinity: 136 mg/l Hardness - Calcium: 208 mg/l Hardness - Total: 244 mg/l TDS: 1309 mg/l pH: 7.16 @ 17.7 pH
Here is an excerpt of the ORIGINAL test results (it is 3 pages long in total with nearly a 100 items on it): No bacerial results Inorganic metals all ND or very low, except for Sodium at 640 mg/l Alkalinity: 120 mg/l Chloride: 520 mg/l Flouride: ND Hardness: ND