[Og]

TDS in new place is 580😀

For the sake of shower pump, washing machine etc, gonna get a water softener.

Anyone use one to supply their whole house?

[Spruce]

TDS in new place is 580😀

For the sake of shower pump, washing machine etc, gonna get a water softener.

Anyone use one to supply their whole house?

That's worse than Hartlepool at 550. I thought they had the record.

I think its common practice to do this in some places but I seem to remember someone saying that you had to still have a water board cold tap connection at the sink as drinking 'softened' water isn't good for you.

The salt wash in the water softener removes calcium and magnesium from the water, but replaces those ions with sodium ions which is salt. So your water will still be 580ppm after the softener. You also need an automated one that gets on with the job as and when needed, although you still have maintenance work to do on it.

 

[Og]

It’s off a borehole so no mains. Do calcium and sodium deionise at the same efficiency?

[Simon Trapani]

TDS in new place is 580😀

For the sake of shower pump, washing machine etc, gonna get a water softener.

Anyone use one to supply their whole house?

I wish I had re-arranged my plumbing before I built my extension Og.
I would buy an automatic softener head but put it on a large vessel of 30 litres or more and regenerate manually. By using a large vessel you reduce the amount of re-generations of the resin. And with an automatic head, even used manually it's impossible to send salt through your RO which would ruin it. (I did this once with a manual softener hence why I bought an automatic. Expensive mistake!) For exactly how often to re-gen you'd need to look up the calculation or phone June at Gaps water. It would depend on how much water you're using. Buy a large brine tank so you can store plenty of Salt, say 3 x 25kg bags or you'll be storing the bags elsewhere. I have this up in my garage next to my static.

I wish I'd attached it to the whole house though, excluding kitchen drinking tap and garden taps. Too late for me to re-arrange now though as it's all in the ceilings and decorated. If I had done it though I wouldn't have the limescale marks around the toilet, shower etc. Not sure of the running costs with regards to salt though.