Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:13:28 -0400
From: Ally Purvis
Subject: hard water
Since we have moved to Bennett, NC we have discovered the really hard well water here. It has a very unappealing “earthy” taste– so we are not drinking it.
I took a sample to a plumbing supply place and it tested at 32 grains. No iron, but calcium and magnesium. The guy there said that he had heard of hard water in Boone area at 18 as the hardest– but I won the prize for having the hardest. He joking asked me to bring in another sample so that he could amaze is friends and co workers. Then he told me that I would need the “big boy” water softener unit ($1200 unit).
I have read some on the softener process and MAN– I don’t need any extra salt in my diet or drinking water, nor the “slimy” feeling that people report when using that method.
Does anyone have a non-chemical water softener that they are using and can recommend?
thanks
ally
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