Just back from an interesting visit to the Homebuilding and Renovating show, where I was surprised to find a design company offering a house called The Millstone - I wonder if they have many takers?
More practically, I looked at the range of Kinetico water softeners which don't require an electricity supply, something new to me. They have a website at
A rival softener company at the show told me that they were useless and didn't work at all, but given that the salesman came out with this completely unprompted and pretty much the moment I started to ask about his own product, I suspect that it was simply a spoiler tactic rather than an accurate scientific assessment.
Does anyone here have any experience of the Kinetico units?