On Feb 21, 8:30 am, "Mark S" wrote:
> Thanks Larry, and your cat...
> After some poking around, the Water Boss does look like a good option.
> The price is in the right neighborhood, and apparently you can get
> them at Home Depot. (Close to me)
> Not too many complaints on the web. It's funny I just got a call from
> RainSoft letting me know it's time
> for them to come and deprive me of several hundred dollars, again...
> And mysofteneris stuck in the middle
> of a regen, AGAIN..... New head, a couple of hundred more... NOT!
> Thanks
> Mark
The 12 gallons and 2.5 lbs of salt sounds great!! Until you add up 7-8
days of daily regenerations; 12*8=96 gallons and 2.5*8=20lbs of salt
over a week's time. And compare that to a softener using the Clack
WS-1 control valve set for a capacity that regenerates on average
every 8th day and then uses 50+/- gallons and only 6-9 lbs of salt
TOTAL. And it has a 5 year warranty on the control valve and 10 years
on the tanks. It might cost a hundred or so more.
Kinetico sounds great too. They claim as little water and salt use as
the Water Boss. But compare it to say a Fleck 9100SE, or 9000SE, or
either in a machanical metered version instead of the electronic meter
version. Then set it up to regenerate every 3 days or so than maybe
3-4 times a DAY. And you don't need any disposable cartridge prefilter
and you save maybe $2000.00.
To learn about correctly sizing a softener:
www.qualitywaterassociates.com/softeners/
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