Water Softener : Kitchen tap hard or soft ?

benquw

Planning to get water softener installed ( water over 500ppm ). most likely one of Clack one ( not so keen on EWT or other cheaper alternative) that fit under kitchen sink and trying to understand whether to leave kitchen tap cold water on mains hard water or have it as softened water. Seems that most commonly cold kitchen tap is on hard water and the rest is on softened - would that be accurate assumption ? Are there any pros / cons to either options ?

Do people then fit RO to battle the limescale in kettle ( and oily looking tea ) and use it for drinking water ?

Advices much appreciated !

athlone573

benquw wrote: »

Planning to get water softener installed ( water over 500ppm ). most likely one of Clack one ( not so keen on EWT or other cheaper alternative) that fit under kitchen sink and trying to understand whether to leave kitchen tap cold water on mains hard water or have it as softened water. Seems that most commonly cold kitchen tap is on hard water and the rest is on softened - would that be accurate assumption ? Are there any pros / cons to either options ?

Do people then fit RO to battle the limescale in kettle ( and oily looking tea ) and use it for drinking water ?

Advices much appreciated !

Hard water tastes nicer and it won't kill you to descale a kettle once in a while.

whizbang

The kitchen tap is most often left on the mains supply, as its just a lot easier that way.
But: you absolutely must have at least one tap still supplied from the main- not supplied from softener -as it will probably fail at some stage.

Get a second cold tap fitted to kitchen supplied from softener.