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We just got a quote from a plumber for a water softener. This is in the Kansas City area. Estimate was free, by the way.
Install new water softener with heavy duty valve, high efficiency, regenerates
only when necessary. Complimentary first year's salt. 10 year warranty on the
tank, 3 year on parts, 2 year labor. $1822.00
Update:
SoCal location.
Quote from the company certified by a few Water Quality Associations: $1750
Quotes from other local Water Softener/Filter companies: $1000
Is Fleck / Pentair considered a quality company for water softeners? The interwebs says yes.
Is Fleck / Pentair considered a quality company for water softeners? The interwebs says yes.
They make the control valve, which is the heart of the system. The Fleck 5600 valve (comes in a few different varieties) is a very high quality control valve. A system built around one of these valves will outlast those throwaway systems sold at the big box by 2-3X, and when something does go wrong, you can just buy a repair kit and fix it yourself.
The Fleck 9100 control valve works with twin resin tanks, so you always have softened water. With a Fleck 5600, whenever it regenerates (every few days, depends on system capacity, water use, and water hardness) you'll get unsoftened water. Typically that is programmed to occur in the middle of the night (3AM), when no one is using water, so most people don't consider this feature essential.
Examples of systems built around a Fleck 5600 SXT control valve:
Just what I was looking for. Thanks MBA! Need about 96,000 grain capacity, so the estimates look pretty reasonable. Do you know anything about the in-tank Mediaguard KDF 55 filter? Is that worthwhile, or if I want to filter out chlorine and pb, should I invest in a separate filtration system?
I'm not familiar with that filter, but if you're on city water, I'd put an R/O filter under the kitchen sink and call it a day. When buying an R/O filter, I think an important but often forgotten aspect is ease of maintenance. The ones I use now just take a minute to replace the carbon and sediment pre-filters, and carbon polishing filter. With my old filters it was a huge production to disconnect it, bring it up to the counter, take the filter housings apart, drain, clean, sanitize, reconnect, etc.
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Try Clearwave Water softener. Forget that salt stuff - that's old school.
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