salt free water conditioners

[Ric]

I spend about $250 per mo. in salt for my softeners. My incoming water is about 20 grains hard w/1ppm iron. Has anyone worked with any of these "salt free" conditioners I am seeing advertised?

 

[rph9168]

From my experience they only seem to work when you almost don't even need to soften the water. My guess is that at 20 grains it would not work very well. Maybe others have had better luck.

 

[Washmee]

You would probably have as much success with one of these!

http://www.fengshui-plus.com/fengshuicatalog/index.html

 

[madscientist]

that's friggin' brilliant!

 

[JJJakubowski]

Hiya, Ric:

20 grains hardness ... ouch! That's not city water, is it? You are on a well, right? Too bad our aquafir doesn't run 30 miles further south to your location. We're pulling GREAT water from our well up here ... and would never hook up to the pipeline spewing that chemical cocktail the city of Grand Rapids calls "water".

Anyway ... I know quite a few operators have tried one form of no-salt, "ion realigning", water treatment or another. Las Vegas, for example, has crappy water and the carwashers and most of the hotel/casinos there have experimented with such "technologies". I do not know of any that were at all pleased with the results.

BTW --- THANKS for sending me those photos/graphics, Ric. Look for 'em in my Spring issue on its merry way to your mailbox as I type.

JJJ/SSCWN
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The Poster Formerly Known

 

[Ric]

Hiya, Ric:

20 grains hardness ... ouch! That's not city water, is it? You are on a well, right? Too bad our aquafir doesn't run 30 miles further south to your location. We're pulling GREAT water from our well up here ... and would never hook up to the pipeline spewing that chemical cocktail the city of Grand Rapids calls "water".

Anyway ... I know quite a few operators have tried one form of no-salt, "ion realigning", water treatment or another. Las Vegas, for example, has crappy water and the carwashers and most of the hotel/casinos there have experimented with such "technologies". I do not know of any that were at all pleased with the results.

BTW --- THANKS for sending me those photos/graphics, Ric. Look for 'em in my Spring issue on its merry way to your mailbox as I type.

JJJ/SSCWN
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The Poster Formerly Known

Yes, it is city water! Crappy stuff...I swear it comes right out of the Kalamazoo river.

No problem on the photos. Glad to be able to help. Keep up the great work...I always look forward to the next issue.