![]() This is not an advertisement of any sort, I just wanted to provide feedback for anyone considering a water softening/conditioning system.īTW, pricing seems to vary depending on where you look. My house is in 'surburbia' serviced by the local community water authority, not a well system. I plan on having the water tested before and after to get quantitative evaluation so I can look at numbers. I really don't believe that part of it - if it last 8-9 years, I figure it will be a win. I got the 1,000,000 gal system that is advertised to last 10 years. Taste wise, there is an improvement - less chlorine and it tastes 'better,' hard to describe but I think it is improved. (No salt, lead and chlorine reduction were major factors) Washed clothes feel less 'scratchy.' ![]() Personally, that was not a big factor in my decision. Soap usage is about the same, that is, I don't see the reduction in soap that salt-based systems claim. Personally, my skin feels more 'flexible' after a shower, not as dried out. ![]() My self and family members noticed that the water has a different feel to it - a little 'silkier' than before. I have been satisfied with the product performance to this point (about 1.5 months of use). I didn't want salt based systems of any kind. After a lot of reading and product searching/reviews, I decided to go with the Aquasana Rhino whole house system composed of pre-filter, salt-free water conditioner, rhino filter (copper-zinc and mineral stone reduce chlorine and heavy metals) and a post filter. If we used the place daily would have to change the membrane more frequently.įollowing up on my initial post. We did have a small RO system under the sink, and I did change those filters every year (filters were cheap) and the membrane I changed twice in 20 years. These filters don't like to sit for months at a time they need to be used all the time. During that time, when we were using the water constantly, the water quality improved significantly. What was challenging for our situation is it was a weekend/vacation home until we moved there from August 2019 until March 2020. If you don't mind chemicals (we were careful of what we put down the drain since it was a septic system) there are more efficient iron filters that use a Potassium Permanganate chemistry just look up "greensand iron filters" if you don't already know about them. So, in your situation, you may consider adding a chemical-free iron filter prior to the softener. Every year we added some pH balancer to the media. Our water was still hard, but most of the iron was removed. Some people at our community then also added a softener but we did not. The tank is automatically backwashed based on a timer. This is then filtered out in a media tank. Water coming into the filter system is aerated which oxidizes the dissolved iron into undissolved rust. Here's how: iron in water is both dissolved and not dissolved. It works: not absolutely perfectly in terms of reducing iron to zero, but it does work. The particular unit we installed was a MacClean, but they were sold to CUNO and I think there are both CUNO and Aqua-Pure filtration systems using the same technology. The first thing we did, more than 20 years ago, was install a chemical-free iron filter. The water was well water, high in iron content. My last home before this one here in NC was on a lake in Michigan. If you choose the whole-house RO system, I would be interesting in hearing your experiences. It would be best to evaluate the costs closely if you are leaning toward a whole-house RO system. With an RO system and hard water, the cost for changing the filters could be very high. We use a Pelican RO for drinking water, and it has been performing very well. At this point, there is a surprising amount of crystalline precipitate when you boil water - not the amorphous white precipitate that forms when you boil hard water. It takes a while to get the settings adjusted on salt-based softeners, more so for this well than for others I've used. The minimum setting on our softener is too high. This is part of our softener unit, but I'm thinking about shutting that off and running a small PEX line to decrease the amount of bypass allowed, as that worked better in previous systems. To reduce the feeling of slickness, we use some bypass. Culligan's drip system may provide a better solution. Our new well has too much iron, so we use some of the "no-iron" salt along with standard salt. I've been watching this discussion for input.
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