Texas Blue Water Filtration and others - Customer Experience??

[steve807]

Like anything else, educate yourself or put yourself in the hands of an expert. Will cost at least double with the expert to come visit you and wring his hands over how hard your water is (maybe triple if the plumber is paying the expert a commission).

I'd avoid the heavily advertised magic units that "use no electricity". Electricity use by electric powered units is tiny, penny or three per week.

I'm happy with my $1,000 total installed cost locally manufactured unit with a circuit board in the garage (horrors !).

[union410]

I'm in the same boat as original poster. How much is too much? I heard $4k was what I should expect. But I don't want to spend that unless I have to. If it matters, the house is pre-plumbed and 3400 sq ft.

Also, how long can we go without a water softener? We close on our house on 12/18. If we lived for a few days without one, would it mess up our pipes?

[TexasRedneck]

Realistically, you can go months/years without catastrophic damage. The sooner the better, but you won't "melt" anything down right away.