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Old 11-08-2018, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Carla B View Post
My main complaint has to do with the calcium or mineral buildup on the faucets and also the dark mold under the toilet rim. If these issues can't be eliminated by a whole-house water filter, then apparently the only benefit is the taste of the water? We have a dedicated faucet and filter at the kitchen sink and, of course, the refrigerator filter to take care of the taste issue.

What am I missing?
It is the water softener that will take care of the calcium/mineral deposits. But it may not take care of the mold under the toilet rim (ours didn't).


As an earlier poster stated (debfromaine, I believe), just having the whole-house filter will not eliminate all calcium deposits unless you add a softener to it.


We added the whole-house filter to the softener system in order to get the resulting salt from the softener out of the water. We had excellent-tasting water and no water spots anywhere. But we did get mold under the toilet rims. That's a humidity issue, not a mineral issue.
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