water softner help in chosing and is this true

spirit

The plumber I mention above has quoted me £500 for the Harvey plus £100 for the valve.

Today I went into John Lewis to look at their kitchens and they have a leaflet there on Mayfair water softeners. It says they are exclusive to JL. It says they have 2 models the 1000 and 2000 and also that they have the Fleck valve.

It doesn't give a price for them though. Anyone had any experience of this make?

Matt_Filterman

Hi spirit.
Just had a look at their web site. Looks like they've been going a long time and the pictures of their water softener indicates that they supply the Fleck 5600. There is also a picture of a twin tank block softener but I don't know which make.
You said your plumber could supply a Harvey softener for £500 which doesn't seem a bad deal if it's the twin tank system (check to make sure, apparently they do a single tank electric model too). You also mentioned £100 for 'the valve'.. what is this for?
Thanks for keeping us updated. Matt

Mr_Lancaster

Hi, all of this has made very interesting reading as I am in the market for a water softener, I have checked my local supplier and they supply a reasonably priced model, the brand is HomeWater, does anyone know anything about them?

Matt_Filterman

Hi Mr Lancaster.
I think HomeWater might use either Crown or Harvey softeners. If you can pick a twin tank, non electric one up for around £500 then it might be a good bet.. I think there is an electric model made by one of these manufacturers that I don't like.. The one I am thinking of uses a plug in timer to control the regeneration time and length. I'm sure it's not a bad softener but it's very basic and as such should be very cheap to buy.. but it isn't..
Regards Matt

iyoung54

Just been reading this thread and thought I should give a few words of warning.

I had a Waterside Software Software which had served us very well for 10+ years but unfortunately developed a leak.

We have a service contract with British Gas. To deal with the leak they sent Dyna Rod who offered to replace the water softener. They wanted £200 to take the old one old and very exorbitant fee for a new one.

I took the old one out myself in about five minutes by turning off two taps, disconecting two pipes and unpluging one plug and then I saved over £300 on the new one by buying the Mayfair 1000 from John Lewis and getting my local plumber to install it when he was doing some other work for me.

Total saving over £500.

Just saying it really pays to shop around and do not take the word of the first so called experts.

bootman

How long did it take for the whole of your house to run soft? I had my twintec fitted last monday, just done my second test tube test upstairs from one of the hot taps, and it's still showing as hard water?

I can tell in the shower something is different as the shampoo foams up much quicker, downstairs the only difference I can see is the tea, it's shiny and tastes so much better. Washing coming off the line still very brittle, I thought that would improve.

Shower has been run pretty much every day or a bath by someone.

Thanks

abb16ott

It could take a while a of the scale that is sat in your tank - but it will get there - it will ahve to work on it - don't worry.

George_Bray

abb16ott wrote: »

It could take a while a of the scale that is sat in your tank - but it will get there - it will ahve to work on it - don't worry.

It makes sense to change the hot water tank at the same time as fitting a water softener. The tank can easily be contaminated with 10-20Kg of calcium and I should think it would take more than a lifetime for soft water to clear that. In the meantime, the system will be depositing calcium just like the hard water did before.

abb16ott

George_Bray wrote: »

It makes sense to change the hot water tank at the same time as fitting a water softener. The tank can easily be contaminated with 10-20Kg of calcium and I should think it would take more than a lifetime for soft water to clear that. In the meantime, the system will be depositing calcium just like the hard water did before.

I guess I was kind of lucky in that aby 6 months before I had my unit fitted mine spit and was replaced FOC by the gas board

Vip

need some advice. what is the best softener for use with heatrae sadia megaflow and valiant ecotec A system boiler? Need something that has high flow rate!

Thanks

V