Water Softening System

Kintarō Hattori

Hey Folks,

I live in Balbriggan and the area seems to suffer from pretty hard water. If we don't use filtered water for the kettle it'd need to be cleaned of its limescale build-up pretty regularly- so I'd hate to think what's happening to the dishwasher, washing machine and internal piping.

A leaflet came in through the letterbox the other day from a company called EWT (www.ewtechnologies.ie). Are these systems any good? I know one can be installed under the sink for tap water in the kitchen but where would they install a system for the rest of the house? The leaflet shows it installed in something like a utility room/basement- something we don't have here.

So are these systems any good? Are they worth the money? Apparently it'd normally cost €1298 but it's on special for €649.

MachooMaan

I have a system and it is working fine, my friends water comes into his hotpress first and then goes through the rest of the house so that is where he has the unit installed. The unit would be installed wherever you turn your water off inside the house so you treat all the water, in a housing estate that is generally under the kitchen sink.

dathi

hope you dont suffer from high blood pressure machooman the cold water tap at kitchen sink should not be softened as the units take the calcium ion and replace it with a sodium ion, ie. salt which everyone knows is one of the main contributors to high blood pressure.

jimjimt

No doubt the normally 1298 to 649 is just a sales pitch. The very smallest softeners can be supplied and fitted for the 650 mark. Break the mains pipe, pipe in and pipe out and drain pipe straight through the wall. Job done. Very few units can be installed this way.
I have no doubt their units are good and will soften your water and worth a phone call.

If you want to size it correctly you need to know how hard your water is. How much water you use as in how many people in the house.

For my area it is 350 ppm and that is hard. For a family of four anything that fits under a sink is not good enough.

The best way to install is to have a third tap or three way tap on the kitchen sink. Hot, mains hard and mains soft. Keeping the mains hard for drinking.
Also you will need a drain close by for the waste brine water from the softener. If you have a septic tank, do not let it into the septic tank.

paddy147

MachooMaan wrote: »

I have a system and it is working fine, my friends water comes into his hotpress first and then goes through the rest of the house so that is where he has the unit installed. The unit would be installed wherever you turn your water off inside the house so you treat all the water, in a housing estate that is generally under the kitchen sink.

Drinking water??



Yikes.:eek:


Surely drinking water (cold water kitchen tap) should be straight off the incomming mains??

corkgsxr

paddy147 wrote: »

Drinking water??



Yikes.:eek:


Surely drinking water (cold water kitchen tap) should be straight off the incomming mains??

It is I'd say just comes into the hot press and drops a line from attic to tap