Telly
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"Water Conditioner" must be the new marketing name for water softener
Ahhh, I remember those days... lowering big blocks of salt into the brine tank, or hefting bags of salt pellets and pouring them in... regeneration cycles... sticking valves or timer problems... the time it overflowed...
You don't want to be drinking the high sodium content water. We put in a separate water line and added a small auxiliary faucet onto the kitchen sink to have unsoftened water available for drinking/cooking. Got that idea from my father inlaw. He did that with his well water. Also want outside water faucets to be connected pre-softener to avoid using up all your softened water, and soft water probably wouldn't have been good for trees, etc.
We get a little calcium buildup here, but nothing like where we used to live.
Ahhh, I remember those days... lowering big blocks of salt into the brine tank, or hefting bags of salt pellets and pouring them in... regeneration cycles... sticking valves or timer problems... the time it overflowed...
You don't want to be drinking the high sodium content water. We put in a separate water line and added a small auxiliary faucet onto the kitchen sink to have unsoftened water available for drinking/cooking. Got that idea from my father inlaw. He did that with his well water. Also want outside water faucets to be connected pre-softener to avoid using up all your softened water, and soft water probably wouldn't have been good for trees, etc.
We get a little calcium buildup here, but nothing like where we used to live.