Water Softeners for a 5 bathroom house

[Marcor]

HI there, I am new to the site and i hope I can get some much needed advice.
I am renovating a very old house, so new plumbing system throughout. The house has 5 bathrooms, 1 in the gf, 3 shower rooms on the ff plus laundry room and a master bathroom up in the loft. We are installing a megaflow system and want to invest in a water softener. Can anyone advise which type we should go for and what the limitations are in terms of maintaining the water pressure? We have had 2 quotes from 2 different companies but their quote varies by over 1K and we can't figure out who to believe? thank you

 

[Tipper]

Go for one that regenerates itself based on water meterage/usage and not one that regenerates 'come what may' every night.

Size of water connections and flow rate capabilty are important for a softener used on a megaflow or similar unvented hot water system. Probably need to upgrade the inlet and outlet hoses to 22mm minimum.

Keep a drinking water tap, ie un-softened water, in the kitchen and maybe in the bathrooms to provide drinking water that doesn't taste yucky.

Ease of reloading the salt and location/ease of access is also important if those doing it can't handle 'gurt big sacks' of salt tablets.

Other than that you pays your money and takes your choice!

 

[Marcor]

Thank you Tipper!
There will be a separate filtered water tap on the kitchen sink. I guess the water filterer will be filtering "soft" water....is that OK? Or will it still taste funny?

 

[Tipper]

Best to have kitchen drinking water tap direct off the mains.

 

[Agile]

The softener tries to remove calcium and mag salts.

They are good for health as well as making the water taste good.

Tony