Which water softener?

sheddy49

Hi There
I have had a Waterside MC250 water softener since 2001 and up until today it has been no trouble at all. Today however the softener just filled with water and overflowed. before you ask the overflow was fitted and not blocked. it just seems that there was more water coming in than going out!

I phoned the current service agents and they quoted £79 for the first 30 mins and then £12 per 15mins thereafter PLUS parts. with the main valve assembly priced at £300 ish , a service call was not an option.

My quest is to find a reasonably priced water softener for two persons. The trouble is that all the manufacturers are biased (of course) and there seems to be no comparison sites to give consumers thelow down .Unless you know differently.

any advise or advice on where to get advice would be greatly appreciated

Avoriaz

I have had a Kinetico Compact for about 20 years and I think they are the best value softeners.

They have twin cylinders so you always have soft water. As one cylinder regenerates, the other supplies soft water.

They are non electric and they recycle according to water usage and not by a timer. A meter measures the amount of water usage so it only regenerates when it needs to.

Mine broke down after about 12 years. I fixed it myself for under £10 for new parts.

They are not cheap, but if you shop around you might get one for about £650.

Avoriaz

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Avoriaz

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Not my fault.

Honest.

bargainlover2006

Hi

We had also been looking around and found kinetico which are suppposed to be really good but at the moment we are doing up the house and the expense seems to be building up so here is a thread I started

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=347831&highlight=water+softener

We did buy this softener and are in the process of installing it.

AdamHart

Well if you are looking for a good quality i would recommend you
isopurewater.com
i m sure you will get good results just like me..
good luck...

moonrakerz

Avoriaz wrote: »

I have had a Kinetico Compact for about 20 years and I think they are the best value softeners.

They have twin cylinders so you always have soft water. As one cylinder regenerates, the other supplies soft water.

They are non electric and they recycle according to water usage and not by a timer. A meter measures the amount of water usage so it only regenerates when it needs to.

Mine broke down after about 12 years. I fixed it myself for under £10 for new parts.

They are not cheap, but if you shop around you might get one for about £650.

Without wishing to start another long argument (see elsewhere:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=370187&highlight= !) I honestly believe that twin cylinder softeners are most definitely NOT the best value.

They cost at least twice as much to buy as a single cylinder model, most use block salt which costs up to 3 times as much as loose salt used in a single cylinder machine.
The bit about one cylinder regenerating when you have switched to the other is a red herring. Once you have set up a single cylinder machine you have no problems as it will regenerate at 2 o'clock in the morning. The very worst that can happen is that you might put two gallons of hard water into your loo cistern - effects of that - ZERO !

The only real advantage is that they don't require a power supply - but with the money you save on a single cylinder you can have power run to the machine and have plenty left over.

It's your money - but do your homework before you decide !!!!

moonrakerz

adamhart wrote: »

well if you are looking for a good quality i would recommend you
isopurewater.com
i m sure you will get good results just like me..
Good luck...

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