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cheapest to buy and run water softener?
cypher007
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more or less sold on using a softener in our new house. were having a 250l stainless tank fitted soon, with 2 immersions and boiler coil. I plan to run the hot water in the summer off the solar pv system using a home made pv diverter kit I bought.
what I don't want to happen is for it to all scale up within a year. we live in a "very hard" water area, according to aglian water. I did consider polyphosphate dosing, but this seems almost as expensive to run as a salt softener.
so ideas please. friend of mine swears by his kinetico, tho he seems to use buckets of salt. something a web site I found seemed to suggest. im not bothered about the non electric thing, as I don't suppose they use much anyway. id rather have a proportional salt/water usage system as were on a meter.
what I don't want to happen is for it to all scale up within a year. we live in a "very hard" water area, according to aglian water. I did consider polyphosphate dosing, but this seems almost as expensive to run as a salt softener.
so ideas please. friend of mine swears by his kinetico, tho he seems to use buckets of salt. something a web site I found seemed to suggest. im not bothered about the non electric thing, as I don't suppose they use much anyway. id rather have a proportional salt/water usage system as were on a meter.
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