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Originally Posted by tuccillo
Some people like the feel of soft water and it will eliminate the white residue on faucets and prevent glass from becoming etched. There will also be less build up on the heating elements in the hot water heater although the builder-grade hot water heaters may fail before that becomes a significant issue. You can generally get by with less soap.
Water softening (for hardness) and filtering (for sediment and chlorine) are two different things. The water in The Villages is pretty heavily chlorinated and a carbon filter will remove the chlorine and your water will taste better. Sediment is really not an issue. The real reason for using a sediment filter is to extend the life of the carbon filter because without a sediment filter in front of the carbon filter the carbon filter can become clogged with sediment before it is depleted from removing chlorine. The minor amount of sediment in the water, the magnesium and calcium ions that make water hard, and the chlorine (added by the water department to kill microbes in the water during delivery to your house) do not make the water unsafe. If you have a water softener, a carbon filter (either an external carbon filter in an enclosure or an included carbon filter in a "hybrid water softener") will extend the life of the water softener because chlorine will attack the resin used for ion exchange in the water softener. We do lots of things is life because we like the end result and not because they are "necessary".
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Thanks for an enlightening response. As for me , I can't see a cost/ benefit reason to use these systems. Don't regularly buy bottled water either- same reason.