keep in mind that there will be savings from a water softener. You only need half as much (or even less) soap in your shower, dishwasher and washing machine.

You will also get more life out of your water using appliances.


That aside, I've seen them at around $1000 CDN at Home Depot.

 

Thats what Culligan told us and a few other venders. Culligan is come tomorrow to install the system and said it will work right away but will take a week before it is working at 100% Its costing us around $2900 installed for a 3 tank system.

 

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I have the Whirlpool from Lowe's for $500 too. Installed it myself after Culligan gave me a similar ~$3000 figure. I can buy an awful lot of salt pellets for the savings I got.

 

Does it serve your entire house and, if so, do you have it tied to your outdoor spickets?

I'd love to have a softener but, I'm worried about potential effects when watering my yard. Should I be?

RP

 

I have my whole house done, even the spickets and sprinklers. Its a good investment. My sprinklers use to leave really bad water spots on my trucks paint and windows that were hard to get off and the water softner made a big difference.

 

Yes it serves my whole house, mainly because my outside spiggots were T'd from the internal plumbing and it would have been a major job to not have them softened. If you water with the hose, it won't be a problem, because the amount of salt it adds to the water is small. If you are concerned though, you can use a manual bypass to remove the softener from the loop when you are doing heavy watering, which would be recommended anyway so you don't waste your softener material. I installed a double bypass, the one that comes as part of the softener and I put one into the plumbing as well. It's pretty easy to do and I haven't noticed any detrimental effects from doing regular watering of the plants with softened water.

 

Thanks guys. I appreciate it.

The wife and I have been kicking around the softener option for several months now because of our extremely poor water quality. With the population explosion occuring in the area where we live, I don't expect the water to get any better any time soon. When you're using old technology designed for half the number of people already in the area, it's only going to get worse as the population increases and they are stressed further beyond the demand that they were built to maintain...

RP

 

I have a way to get the water spots away.

It's called blow-drying. Go on the nearest highway and drive for about 5 minutes at about 80 mph. The water will blow off the truck and dry it off. It works best with a car.

My dad does this everytime he washes his Corvette. And it works.

 

Hey ya all,

Keep in mind that the irrigation system has to be isolated from the softener. A softener will not keep your sprinklers from spotting your beautiful trucks.

My reccomendation is to install on the line to the water heater. You will only have softened water in your hot water loop, which will help with the dishwasher, showers, and possibly the laundry (depending on your temperature settings). You can also wash your truck with hot water.

As far as Culligan goes, their softeners are prettty good, but verrrrry expensive. Look at the ones that Sears, Lowes, Costco, Sam's club sell, or search on-line. You can save alot of money. I made the same mistake years ago, and bought a Culligan/US Filter system before I entered the Water/Waste Water industry as a line of work. I have found many softeners for about a third of the price since.

As a matter of fact, I just received a flyer the other day for softeners, and I think they were around $ 500.00 for a demand system.

Regards!
Kevin