Install a water softener.....

[dynomo]

I have a plumbing company and mainly concentrate on bathroom and kitchen isntallations. A customer has approached me looking to install a water softener, now I have seen these devices being installed but have never touched one myself. Can I kindly ask, how do you establish which softener type suits your home, and is the plumbing aspect of installation fairly straight forward?

thank you in advance

 

[JohnD]

sizes vary with amount of water used per day. They are usually estimated by number of people per household. The bigger ones have a bigger salt bin so need topping up less often. Some have a time clock to trigger the flushing, some use a meter. the meters are better.

They are almost exactly as easy or difficult to fit as a washing machine. They are heavy when full of salt and water.

It must be placed in a position where you can easily access it and tip a 25kg sack of salt pellets into it (so preferably not under the sink or in the loft). You might put one in the corner of a run of kitchen units if you can lift or hinge up the worktop above it, and get full access for cleaning and servicing.

It should be placed on a plastic surface (e.g. vinyl flooring) as the spilled and splashed salt will attack most building materials especially metals.

 

[dynomo]

aaaah mr JohnD, was just reading a previous post of yours

Sounds like you know a bit about water softeners. Funny enough, I get on really well with a JohnD on the electrics forum and he always helps me out when necessary...

I have yet to ascertain the precise facts relating to this installation. But a little information now would be a little heads up for me. For a typical un-vented pressurised system with no water tank but a combi boiler system, supplying a 3 bedroom property consisting of 2 bathrooms for example, with a family of 5, would this model suffice: Kinetico 2020c http://www.kindwater.co.uk/wsproducts.htm

I wouldn't like to be involved too much with electrics here and this model seems to suit my needs as all that is required is blocks of salt.

As a guide, can you advise which model would suit the above if the kinetico doesn't. And for minimal requirements, i.e. if it turns out that the property is a 1 bedroom flat, with 2 occupants, which model would work?

Thanks John