Hi guys I have been trying to lean a lot about water softners and I am trying to decide what would be best for my house and would like to hear if you have some suggestion about what I am doing...
I have a water with 600 PPM = 35 GPG hardness no iron
My Peak Flow Rate would be about 7 GPM (2 baths and appliance)
I am sizing it for 160 gallons each day
I would like to have 8 days Between regeneration and use a low salt dose about (6-8 lbs/ft3)
I Plan to put an Active Carbon filter before entering the softener (as my water is coming from a well, to capture chlorine and some particles that my come from the pump)
Rigth now I am calculating I am using about 80 Gallons of water a day (2 persons) but I do not have pressure on by bathroom think it is at 5 PSI (tank is located on 2nd floor) right now, so I am guessing my water consumption will increase when I increase the pressure to 43 PSI.
I have a Fleck 5800STX metered Valve, Still deciding the size of the tank, but I am thinking about 1.5 ft resin or 2 ft resin but I think it would be too much (the 2 ft is to support the increase of my family 3-4 years down the road to a family of 4)...
So my questions are ...
- Could I buy a larger tank and fill it with less resin and when my water demands increase put more resin on the tank ?
- Which resin do you recommend I was inclined to use SST-60 to lower salt usage but I found 2 other forums that they leave a flavor/taste as plastic on the water the person they did not post how they solved it and it say that it was worst when brushing teeth, and havent found much people using it or reading if they had problem, othe resin I am considering is Purefine PFC100E supossely as it is a fine mesh resin it should have lower leakage at lower salt usage but haven't found any technical data about it, and another would be the Purelite C100E ....
- To use the fine mesh Purefine PFC100E do I need to use something more on the tank ?
Any suggestion is well received... Thanks
I have a water with 600 PPM = 35 GPG hardness no iron
My Peak Flow Rate would be about 7 GPM (2 baths and appliance)
I am sizing it for 160 gallons each day
I would like to have 8 days Between regeneration and use a low salt dose about (6-8 lbs/ft3)
I Plan to put an Active Carbon filter before entering the softener (as my water is coming from a well, to capture chlorine and some particles that my come from the pump)
Rigth now I am calculating I am using about 80 Gallons of water a day (2 persons) but I do not have pressure on by bathroom think it is at 5 PSI (tank is located on 2nd floor) right now, so I am guessing my water consumption will increase when I increase the pressure to 43 PSI.
I have a Fleck 5800STX metered Valve, Still deciding the size of the tank, but I am thinking about 1.5 ft resin or 2 ft resin but I think it would be too much (the 2 ft is to support the increase of my family 3-4 years down the road to a family of 4)...
So my questions are ...
- Could I buy a larger tank and fill it with less resin and when my water demands increase put more resin on the tank ?
- Which resin do you recommend I was inclined to use SST-60 to lower salt usage but I found 2 other forums that they leave a flavor/taste as plastic on the water the person they did not post how they solved it and it say that it was worst when brushing teeth, and havent found much people using it or reading if they had problem, othe resin I am considering is Purefine PFC100E supossely as it is a fine mesh resin it should have lower leakage at lower salt usage but haven't found any technical data about it, and another would be the Purelite C100E ....
- To use the fine mesh Purefine PFC100E do I need to use something more on the tank ?
Any suggestion is well received... Thanks