I'm on a private water system fed from local wells; after 8 years in this new house, I'm tired of struggling with the water hardness and resulting maintenance problems, including damaged water heater elements, scale build-up on fixtures, etc. etc. I've had great results after installing small inline RO systems for my steam humidifiers; they hardly need cleaning anymore. Aside from scale, I don't have any other complaints about water quality, taste, etc. I know there are some larger debris particles that should be filtered, but currently we don't have any whole-house filtration. Recent water tests showed 8.8 GPG of total hardness (CaCO3), so not sky high. I'm turned off by the thought of a salt-based softener system and would like to avoid it if other solutions would be effective and economical.
Question is: Are water conditioner systems (such as Scaltrol, Next Filtration Technologies, Ecoflow, and Pelican NaturSoft) worth considering? All seem to promote the logic that the scale-causing minerals are not removed by their processes, just neutralized so they cannot form scale.
Question is: Are water conditioner systems (such as Scaltrol, Next Filtration Technologies, Ecoflow, and Pelican NaturSoft) worth considering? All seem to promote the logic that the scale-causing minerals are not removed by their processes, just neutralized so they cannot form scale.
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