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Originally Posted by tuccillo
The minor amount of sediment in the water,
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I'm going disagree with that statement. I guess you don't have a sediment filter, if you had one and you looked at your jaw would drop with the amount a Nova filter removes.
without a good sediment/carbon filter you're drinking, bathing, cooking and washing dishes in dirty or muddy water
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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.
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That is called a backwards incorrect instal, carbon should be placed after NOT before the softener.
Reason is the salt added is sacrificial (extending it's life is foolish) , it's inexpensive.
The correct install is as follows softener, sediment then carbon.
But the other factor is the type of carbon, and size of the carbon containers, that's another story.
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