DIY water softener...

[gassafe]

I was at a property last week doing a job...

The customer asked me whilst I was up in the roof space to drop a Harvey's salt block into his cold water storage tank!!

I was pretty surprised, but he reckons it does the same job of a softener without the expensive machine lol!!! He reckoned it lasts about a week, but when I looked in the tank an hour later it had 3/4 dissolved lol...

I'm no expert on softeners but I thought they used the salt to flush the lime scale hardness from the resin, surely this is just a tankful of very salty water??

 

[Chalked]

Yep, he has a tank of salty water!
Salt /brine is used on regeneration, to clean the resin. and is taken to drain.

 

[Riley]

Chalked is spot on. Regeneration is what stops the horrendous salty taste :wink:

 

[rpm]

Know one lady that pops a Calgon tablet in her toilet cistern every month.

 

[tomplumb83]

Haha that's ace