Water softener regulations

[Paul Cockhill]

Hi

I am looking for some advice regarding water softeners. A client has purchased a NSA water softener with a filter last november and he has asked me if I would be interested in fitting it.

The client is a dentist and he wants it fitted in his surgery to cover all the water connections.

First I believe there should be at least one tap that should provide normal drinking water.

Second, I am not sure that the softened water should be used when people are washing their mouths out after treatment in the surgery

Third, he cannot find the instructions that came with the water softener, does anyone know where I might find them on the web.

Any help greatly appreciated

regards

Paul

 

[Plumbstar Tom]

Manufacturer should have copies of instructions for you
Softened water should not be drunk but it's fine to swill mouth out
But yes at least one tap in the surgery needs untreated water.

 

[steve43]

Hi hope you can help, i'm doing a train 4 trades course and i can't find the answer to this question.
what document would be needed when maintaining a water softener?
kind regards
Steve

 

[chris watkins]

Steve, Who would know how the machine worked ? for example there are electrically operated ones & others that work off of the water pressure.

 

[Howsie]

Kitchen sink(s) and outside tap(s) should not be softened, all else is OK.

 

[aqualogic7]

also requires double check valve as in commercial situation

 

[PlumbBobBob]

Hi hope you can help, i'm doing a train 4 trades course and i can't find the answer to this question.
what document would be needed when maintaining a water softener?
kind regards
Steve

i guess you would need the same thing that comes with the machine when new. have a think, not giving you any more. :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Frelon]

I know this is an old post (2011) but NSA stopped marketing their water filters in 2007!

Remember there are water filters and water softeners, two totally different pieces of kit. The clues are in the names (filters, softeners) and they are not interchangeable.

There is plenty of information about water softeners (and installation/maintenance) out there on the Internet. As other posters have advised always use the manufacturers' information.

 

[RayPlumb]

Does it not have to be notified to water authority as it automatically uses water fro regeneration process.
(f) a water treatment unit which produces a waste water discharge or which requires the use of water for regeneration or cleaning;

 

[thompsonbrown]

If you install a ion-exchange water softener it must be installed with a hard water take off point for drinking, testing and watering gardens, etc. Isolation and non-rtn valves
Options for drinking softened water are.
1. Installed with a r/o drinking water filter kit.
2. Unit filled potassium chloride tablets instead of sodium chloride.