RE: Water softeners

["Peter Church" <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The symptoms sound familiar.  We had just had a loft conversion done,
and
the water softener added and part of our supply pipe upgraded so it was
har=
d
to pin down, but generally we=92d get explosive trapped air in the
downstai=
rs
cloakroom where the softener is, so I ruled out the loft as it was not
goin=
g
to cause air down there.  I checked the softener by releasing the trapped
air then isolating the softener for a day to see what happened.  The
proble=
m
went away.

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Kinetico came in sceptical that it was the system (paid the call out charge
=96 grr), he stripped the unit down and put it back together and the
proble=
m
has gone away.  We don=92t know what exactly was causing it, but I think he
did have to replace the float valve as it was sticky.

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So if that sounds like your system try isolating the softener for a day or
so to see if the build up occurs =96 also whether it occurs near to the
softener.

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HTH

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Pete

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul Gale
Sent: 18 May 2011 11:07
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Water softeners

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Pete - What were the symptoms of your trapped air in the system? Over the
years I've found I get a lot of air in the cold water supply in the house
(we're on direct mains feed through the house). But I'm not sure if this is
due to the softener or something else in the system.

Cheers,

Paul.

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx
<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
] On Behal=
f
Of Peter Church
Sent: 16 May 2011 22:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>=20
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Water softeners

Neil,

We've had a Kinetico 2020c for the last 2 years and can recommend it. It
works well and does what it should (we're on Thames Water and have pretty
hard water), and I like the way it uses no power as it has twin chambers.
We installed a new shower at the same time and it is still fairly spotless,
so much so that I had dismantle the other shower and give it an acid bath
t=
o
clean it up to get it to the same standard!

One thing we find is that their service calls are expensive - we had to
hav=
e
it checked over because we were getting trapped air in the water system
(they still don't know why) and it cost about =A360 for the guy to come and
give it a once over, although it did fix the problem. Another thing to note
is that you can get ex rental ones at a fraction of the cost, if your local
installer does rentals. Ours was about 60% of list price.

HTH

Pete

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx
<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
] On Behal=
f
Of Neil Spellings
Sent: 16 May 2011 18:25
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>=20
Subject: [ukha_d] Water softeners

Anyone have an good/bad experiences/recommendations of whole house water
softeners?

I'm looking for my next summer project :)

Cheers

Neil
http://neil.spellings.net

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