RE: Water softeners

["Peter Church" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes that reminds me, we had to buy the high flow kit for the Kinetico
=96 t=
hat
added =A370 to the cost, but was good quality kit =96 2 x 22mm ball
isolati=
on
valves and a 22mm bypass valves + 2 x meter lengths of braided flexible
hos=
e
=96 all connections to the machine are screw on.  I=92ve had the machine
in=
and
out a couple of times while decorating etc and it is quite easy to
disconnect and reconnect.  Our plumber fitted ours as well, but it was a
doddle really with this stuff once he had spliced the valves into the
supply.

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Pete

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Simon Haslam
Sent: 17 May 2011 08:35
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Water softeners

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We've had a Harveys mechanical twin chamber one for about 6 years - no
problems at all. We've never had it serviced - I don't think there's
anything much to service though the salt man said they can get caked in
sal=
t
over time, stopping the blocks

sliding down properly. Perhaps the metering mechanism will wear out
eventually.

Note our plumber installed ours for us - I had bought a "high
flow" kit but
he didn't like the flexible pipes/circlips which he doesn't trust for mains
pressure water. Instead he did the last section between the (copper) bypass
pipes with two short lengths of 22mm plastic pipe (Hep2O or whatever) and a
couple of plastic elbows.

HTH, Simon

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