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water softner help in chosing and is this true

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  • moonrakerz
    moonrakerz Posts: 8,650 Forumite
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    Chunks wrote: »
    Thanks again. I think I need to, well, rethink.

    Have sent you a PM.
  • Chunks
    Chunks Posts: 712 Forumite
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    mad990diver wrote: »
    find your rising main and look for a logical space to accommodate the softener nearby.

    Mine is under the sink..... :(
  • Chunks
    Chunks Posts: 712 Forumite
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    moonrakerz wrote: »
    Have sent you a PM.

    Blinding - thanks mate. Will purchase a slide rule and do some sums.

    cheers

    C
  • Chunks
    Chunks Posts: 712 Forumite
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    moonrakerz wrote: »
    I think you would be hard pressed to find a unit smaller than that one. Of course, it doesn't have to go under the sink, it could go in any cupboard.

    I was lucky with mine - I was starting from "bare walls" , so to some extent I could plan around the softener. I have all my valves/stop taps in the other half of the softener cupboard with hoses feeding under the kitchen units to all the appliances.

    I looked at the dimensions moonrakerz and it says 525mm which is the max height. May I ask you how high the tank part is (so excluding the display at the back of the machine.

    many thanks,

    Chunks
  • moonrakerz
    moonrakerz Posts: 8,650 Forumite
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    Chunks wrote: »
    I looked at the dimensions moonrakerz and it says 525mm which is the max height. May I ask you how high the tank part is (so excluding the display at the back of the machine.

    many thanks,

    Chunks

    The 525mm is with the cover on the clock/timer/valve, without it (as mine is) is 500mm. Height of the tank is 350mm.
  • Chunks
    Chunks Posts: 712 Forumite
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    Right - deed done and machine ordered - thanks again moonrakerz.

    Now, for salt. Found a good deal online - supplier just down the road from me (works out around £7.40 per 25kg bag for tablet salt delivered) but I need to order 10 bags. Stupid question (no laughing and pointing please) but how much space will that lot take up?
  • Doc_N
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    Chunks wrote: »
    Right - deed done and machine ordered - thanks again moonrakerz.

    Now, for salt. Found a good deal online - supplier just down the road from me (works out around £7.40 per 25kg bag for tablet salt delivered) but I need to order 10 bags. Stupid question (no laughing and pointing please) but how much space will that lot take up?

    If it's of any help, I've just measured a pile of 25kg bags. Two piles of 5 bags will take up a space roughly 70cms wide, 60cms deep and 60cms high. :)
  • Chunks
    Chunks Posts: 712 Forumite
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    Just gets better - perhaps I should order a pallet? :)

    Thanks Doc N, great help.
  • dave82_2
    dave82_2 Posts: 1,328 Forumite
    Get salt from costco its really cheep there
  • Doc_N
    Doc_N Posts: 8,624 Forumite
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    dave82 wrote: »
    Get salt from costco its really cheep there

    Thanks. How much is it?
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