fitting a water softner (wrap around type)

longwalks1

want to fit one of those wire, wrap around water softners you plug in and leave on all the time, can it be wrapped around an old copper pipe thats been painted several times?

I've got a de-scaling cartridge for my combi boiler, but the water coming into the house is sooooo hard its making a complete mess of my kitchen sink

ormus

save your money. they dont work.

27col

We used to have big commercial ones fitted to the water supply in the galley of the Naval Establishment where I worked. If you saw the amount of lime build-up in the hot water supply pipes it would be difficult to believe that the water "softener" had achieved anything at all.

bootman

the little wrap arounds really don't work. We just pulled one out we fitted a couple of years ago. It's an empty box!

Avoriaz

britishboy wrote: »

want to fit one of those wire, wrap around water softners you plug in and leave on all the time, can it be wrapped around an old copper pipe thats been painted several times?

I've got a de-scaling cartridge for my combi boiler, but the water coming into the house is sooooo hard its making a complete mess of my kitchen sink

Yes, no problem there.

It will be just as effective wrapped around a painted pipe as an unpainted pipe.

In fact they don't need to be installed at all.

They have exactly the same effectiveness if you just leave them in the box and put them in a cupboard.



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