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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Don't you need to offset the cost savings on detergents with the cost to purchase, operate, and maintain the water softener?
I don't know exactly what you mean by a new lease on life for water pipes, but there are many houses in The Villages that are more than 30 years old with no water softener, and the pipes have never needed to be replaced.
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And there are some houses in TV that have needed pipe replacement due to the pipes getting gunked up.
Water systems are a 2 part system. A filtration system and a water softener system. You can have one without the other, depending on water quality, likes and needs.
You can do nothing. We personally couldn’t drink the tap water, even after going thru the fridge filter or our Brita filter.
So we opted for a Pegasus system. It has a single canister that has a 4-way filter medium that will backflush itself to keep the filter medium clean. And a softener canister that can be used with cheap salt, or a more expensive sodium potassium. Using regular salt will kill the grass/bushes where the backwash exits the house. The potassium salt will not do that. Either version is safe to drink, obviously.
The other filtration system here is Nova. They use up to 3 filtration canisters/filters, whose filters must be replaced every so often, as they will clog and you lose water pressure. And it can also use a stand alone softener canister. Again with either version of salt.
The softener makes you feel like you didn’t rinse the soap off well. But you actually just have to trust that you have. It does not actually take any more time to rinse soap off, so you just have to trust it’s off. And the softner will also keep your shower/fixtures much cleaner.
You would be happy with either system. I chose Pegasus and sodium potassium salt for the softner medium. I don’t want to be changing any filters.