03-14-2014, 11:16 AM
Watts Premier has some good options in compact RO systems. I put one in the old house and she liked it so well, I had to put one in the new house. The old house was on city water, but the water had extremely high salt content. All her flower pots turned white after a short time. With the RO system, no more white pots. The new house has a well, so I put a booster system on it. It also performs very well.
While slightly off topic, if somebody is looking for a household softener, I will strongly recommend one by Kinetico. The new house had one of these in it, but it had been let go. The system is an on demand system, recharging only after a given (and adjustable) amount of water has been used. Since there's not a power outlet in the closet where the softener is and it would have required a fair amount of work to put one there, I opted to replace with a new Kinetico system. They are not cheap!! At least up front, that is. We liked it well enough that when the softener at the farm house started giving us fits, I bought the same Kinetico system from my local dealer and took it to the farm and installed it there. My MIL lives on the farm still. Her hair dresser commented within a month about how well her hair was doing and the only change was the softener.
I mentioned the higher up front costs earlier. The systems were about $2800 each. A replacement timered system, like what was there, was priced for the farm at just under $1000. We hadn't been using anywhere near as much salt as what Granny had been using. So I figured it would take about 5 years, but I could pay for the system with the reduced salt usage. Boy was I wrong!! We used to bring her 8-10 bags every other month. I bought 10 bags 2 years ago and still have 6 bags left. So while it will pay for itself in about 5 years; there's that much less hassle to deal with and that much less salt being dumped out as it timer regenerated. The other very interesting thing that occured was about a month after install, the water coming into the house started showing lots of sediment in it. I traced it back to the pipes from the softener to and into the house. They had so much stuff collected in them, that once the salt balance got corrected, they dumped it all. Fairly quickly the water cleared and has been great since.
While slightly off topic, if somebody is looking for a household softener, I will strongly recommend one by Kinetico. The new house had one of these in it, but it had been let go. The system is an on demand system, recharging only after a given (and adjustable) amount of water has been used. Since there's not a power outlet in the closet where the softener is and it would have required a fair amount of work to put one there, I opted to replace with a new Kinetico system. They are not cheap!! At least up front, that is. We liked it well enough that when the softener at the farm house started giving us fits, I bought the same Kinetico system from my local dealer and took it to the farm and installed it there. My MIL lives on the farm still. Her hair dresser commented within a month about how well her hair was doing and the only change was the softener.
I mentioned the higher up front costs earlier. The systems were about $2800 each. A replacement timered system, like what was there, was priced for the farm at just under $1000. We hadn't been using anywhere near as much salt as what Granny had been using. So I figured it would take about 5 years, but I could pay for the system with the reduced salt usage. Boy was I wrong!! We used to bring her 8-10 bags every other month. I bought 10 bags 2 years ago and still have 6 bags left. So while it will pay for itself in about 5 years; there's that much less hassle to deal with and that much less salt being dumped out as it timer regenerated. The other very interesting thing that occured was about a month after install, the water coming into the house started showing lots of sediment in it. I traced it back to the pipes from the softener to and into the house. They had so much stuff collected in them, that once the salt balance got corrected, they dumped it all. Fairly quickly the water cleared and has been great since.
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