Hi all,
I’ve done a lot of research and read through many threads here and got a general idea of which size softener to get, however I’m still unsure of which size to buy for my situation, I have received different recommendations from multiple sellers/plumbers. I would greatly appreciate your advise and expertise.
I am going between Fleck 5600 10% resin 48,000 or 64,000 grain. There are currently 4 people in our home (2 toddlers), however I am planning for the future and their growth and possibly another child.
At the moment we use minimal water, only ~35 gallons each per day, hardness is ~15 gpg per city (just ordered test kit to make sure). I am assuming as they get a little older in let’s say 5 years they will be using average 60 gallons. So now we would use 2100 grains a day, but looking forward we might use 3600 a day, we want to regenerate ~14 days or longer per recommendation.
I have read with a larger softener (64k) I can put less salt in it to soften 30000 grain every 14 days for now, and in the future use more salt to increase water usage, however the regeneration time now would be more likely a month, we would have to manually override every 14 days. With the 48k it would still be perfect size for us but wouldn’t we be using more salt and potentially too small when the kids get older?
Is the 64k too big for us at the moment we would need to definitely manually override regenerations?
Been going back and forth for days, any advise would greatly help us! Thanks
I’ve done a lot of research and read through many threads here and got a general idea of which size softener to get, however I’m still unsure of which size to buy for my situation, I have received different recommendations from multiple sellers/plumbers. I would greatly appreciate your advise and expertise.
I am going between Fleck 5600 10% resin 48,000 or 64,000 grain. There are currently 4 people in our home (2 toddlers), however I am planning for the future and their growth and possibly another child.
At the moment we use minimal water, only ~35 gallons each per day, hardness is ~15 gpg per city (just ordered test kit to make sure). I am assuming as they get a little older in let’s say 5 years they will be using average 60 gallons. So now we would use 2100 grains a day, but looking forward we might use 3600 a day, we want to regenerate ~14 days or longer per recommendation.
I have read with a larger softener (64k) I can put less salt in it to soften 30000 grain every 14 days for now, and in the future use more salt to increase water usage, however the regeneration time now would be more likely a month, we would have to manually override every 14 days. With the 48k it would still be perfect size for us but wouldn’t we be using more salt and potentially too small when the kids get older?
Is the 64k too big for us at the moment we would need to definitely manually override regenerations?
Been going back and forth for days, any advise would greatly help us! Thanks