Water Softener Owners, What Was The Main Reasons Why You Purchased A Softener?

Please list reasons why you personally chose to buy a water softener for your home in the order of most importance to least importance. And which brand did you choose?
Some reasons to stir up your mind: features of the water softener, the benefits to your home, cheaper than hard water, skin problems, less home cleaning, extending appliances, clothes, and so on.
All comments are great.

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Posted in: Water Systems Q & A Comments(1) August 2009


One Response to “Water Softener Owners, What Was The Main Reasons Why You Purchased A Softener?”

  1. pvredito Says:
    August 13th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    I got a water softener many years ago for my rural house in upstate NY. Not only was the water hard, it had dissolved iron in it. I got a water softener from Sears and used salt pellets that had something called “Rid Rust” in it, which eliminated the iron. It worked very well, but I sold the house after about four years and no longer have that softener.
    When I used it, I found the softened water to be too soft. It seemed to take forever to rinse soap, for example. Therefore, I set the system up with a valve where I could bleed a little untreated water back into the system so that the water was still soft but just a little harder. This worked well.
    I also plumbed the system so that the toilet got untreated water. I could go either way on this, as hard water will leave more water stains and cause valves to fail more quickly. But I hated to flush soft water down the toilet. This may not be as big an issue with today’s 1.6-gallon toilets. (They were 3.5 gallons back then.)

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