Water softener owners

[chrisd]

OK at present I only have one mixer tap in kitchen.

I would have to add a second tap for drinking water when the softener goes in? It sounds like you did.

We could have fitted it so that the the kitchen tap came off the supply before the rest went into the softener

 

[Bunkermagnet]

That is normally how I see them, and use the same unsoftened feed for the dishwasher as well. Reason for that is the softenor in the dishwasher is much more accurate for the dishwasher than a general house softenor.

 

[Rooter]

OK at present I only have one mixer tap in kitchen.

I would have to add a second tap for drinking water when the softener goes in? It sounds like you did.

you can get multi flow taps, that you chose soft or hard water. I have a small separate tap for drinking water only, looks like this:

https://www.waterfilterman.co.uk/si...nRcn09iX4cu_OBegGFOddEO32whbVnasaAkngEALw_wcB

 

[sawtooth]

you can get multi flow taps, that you chose soft or hard water. I have a small separate tap for drinking water only, looks like this:

https://www.waterfilterman.co.uk/si...nRcn09iX4cu_OBegGFOddEO32whbVnasaAkngEALw_wcB

Well my water softener has been in for a while now and must say that I am very happy with it.

Currently the only things that are not softened are the kitchen cold tap and the outside garden tap. I will install a tap like you have above but dont necessarily want it installed with a filter.

I assume I can attach this tap to the ordinary cold water feed before it goes into the softener?

I just had a thought about the garden tap, I could also make that softened (for washing cars etc) but then switch it hard water for times that I needed to by simply switching the bypass taps for the softener.

Has anybody done that? BTW water hardness in my area is 272 mg/l or 19 on the clark scale.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Also remember young children shouldn’t drink softened water, not sure how relevant that is to you Bob...

 

[sawtooth]

So now with water softener in and working I need a new tap for the sink that is tri-flow , I dont really want a separate tap for drinking water as space is limited around the sink.

And I dont really want to filter the cold water but can't seem to find a 3 way tap that does hot/cold softened/cold mains , they all appear to be hot/cold/filtered.

Presumably you cant just ignore the purifier and connect these taps up to mains

 

[jim8flog]

I have always thought that hard water and scale build up was calcium carbonate and not sodium carbonate so the salt in the diet comment does not make sense to me. As long as you are getting calcium from the usual sources eg milk and cheese I cannot see the problem.

I have lived in a soft water area for 30+ years and I am still living.

I used to own a flat in the nearby town. Within just a few days you could see the scale build up in the kettle I used to take there whilst renovating the place. I was going to fit an electronic water softener as they got such good reviews.