Recent content by ndes79

What about the hot water at the kitchen sink? I believe this would be hard and would therefore cause the same problems ie limescale etc. Or can this also be filtered?

Hi again plumber1722. Yes, that seems correct. We were going to have the seperate drinking water system via a seperate tap which would have been installed on the kitchen sink - this would be filtered but not softened. Anyway it seems that my only real solution is to have the kitchen floor...

Hi again. I believe there is a branch in the mains service pipe, before the stop cock as you say. When I shut the main stop cock I don't get running water anywhere apart from the kitchen which is at the back of the ground floor. There is a further stopcock situated under the breakfast bar...

Hi. We do not have any storage tanks. It is mains fed throughout and hot water via combi boiler.

Thanks for your advice guys I really appreciate it. Okay what I have realised is that the cold water at the kitchen sink would not be plumbed through the water softener and would be plumbed through the drinking water filter instead. I just shut off the main stopcock and I still have HOT water...

Hi plumber1722. I was told that I could drink the softened water if I wanted to and there was no problem with that but some people do not like the taste so they could install a separate drinking water system that feeds a separate tap on the sink that they would install too. They said they would...

Hi Nige, thanks for replying. We DO want softended water in the kitchen as this would solve the problem of limescale and soap scum etc at the kitchen sink. We have also purchased a Kinetico 9000 drinking water system so that would have been installed under the sink to provide filtered...

Hi guys, I'm new here so go easy! Have just had water softener installation guy round to install a new Kinetico 2020C HF as we have incredibly hard water. Also bought a Kinetico 9000 drinking water system. Unfortunately we have hit a brick wall. The main water pipe entering the house...