RE: OT : Filtered Water Taps

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Just one small point to note...

I live in a hard water area, and I have one of these whole house softeners
on the incoming main. It's not fitted under the sink, but in the cellar,
very close to where the water main comes in to the house, and before it
branches off to to various parts of the house.

I also have a drinking water filter fitted at the same location, feeding a
seperate tap at the sink.

But the drinking water is filtered, *not* softened.. _ I was told that in
hard water areas, it is a legal requirement to leave at least one
non-softened drinking water outlet available.

The filter cardridge is about the size of a fire extinguisher, and is said
to last approximately 3 years before replacement is required.

There were under the sink versions of the drinking water part available as
well from the same company, which could be fitted either with or without
the
softener part...

HTH

Paul G.



>From: "White, Peter" <peter.white@banctec.co.uk>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@yahoogroups.com
>To: "'ukha_d@yahoogroups.com'" <ukha_d@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT : Filtered Water Taps
>Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:44:03 -0000
>
>We were looking around a house at the weekend (househunting), and the
owner
>had a water softener under the sink which supplied all taps (apart from
>outside).  It cost about £5/pm to run, but I didn't see the make.
>
>Out of interest, why do you not want it to all taps?  I thought you got
>more
>bubbles and less scale with soft water if you have it on all taps?  The
guy
>had me convinced to get one installed in my next house.  My neighbour
also
>has one for all taps, incl. outside, and he claims that the cleaning
the
>car
>is a lot easier due to the watermarks not being left.
>
>Pete
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben McCormack [mailto:ben@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 22 January 2004 13:39
>To: Home Automation List
>Subject: [ukha_d] OT : Filtered Water Taps
>
>
>Hi all
>
>Hopefully someone on the group will be abel to help me.
>
>We live in a hard water area and usually use a Brita Water Filter for
>our drinking water. Now I am getting fed up of having to buy the
>cartridges every month or so.
>
>So basically I am looking for one of those systems that is plumbed in
>to provide filtered drinking water that will not scale the kettle up.
>Does anyone have any recommendations? I am not interested in softening
>the whole supply;y as I like hard water to wash etc
>
>Cheers
>
>Ben
>
>
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