Hello all,
I live in a tiny house on wheels that I built and I am hooking up the house to water soon. I have a threaded hose connection on the outside of my house so I can hookup to a hose.
I am someone who has VERY sensitive skin and hard water gives me acne. Unfortunately I live in San Diego where the water is very hard.
I'm looking for some advice on a setup that soften my water for my entire house but more importantly. remove the heavy minerals while taking a shower.
My thinking is that on the outside of the house I will have a water filter and a softener/mineral filter and then I will also buy a heavy mineral shower head filter just to be extra sure.
The setup on the outside would look something like this:
Now, some questions for you:
1) What setup would you recommend?
2) Does anyone have any experience with these shower head filters? I'm thinking something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Shower-Lab-Pro-Cartridges-Impurities/dp/B01IJBOD9U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518992022&sr=8-2&keywords=heavy+mineral+shower+head+filter
3) Do I need a special "portable" water softener/heavy metal filter or will any do? What is the difference?
4) When connecting to the hose bib, should it go hose bib --> water filter --> softer/heavy metal filter --> House OR water filter --> hose bib --> softer/heavy metal filter?
5) It gets below 35 degrees ~20 nights a year or so. Will that be ok for the unit outside?
Thank you!
I live in a tiny house on wheels that I built and I am hooking up the house to water soon. I have a threaded hose connection on the outside of my house so I can hookup to a hose.
I am someone who has VERY sensitive skin and hard water gives me acne. Unfortunately I live in San Diego where the water is very hard.
I'm looking for some advice on a setup that soften my water for my entire house but more importantly. remove the heavy minerals while taking a shower.
My thinking is that on the outside of the house I will have a water filter and a softener/mineral filter and then I will also buy a heavy mineral shower head filter just to be extra sure.
The setup on the outside would look something like this:
Now, some questions for you:
1) What setup would you recommend?
2) Does anyone have any experience with these shower head filters? I'm thinking something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Shower-Lab-Pro-Cartridges-Impurities/dp/B01IJBOD9U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518992022&sr=8-2&keywords=heavy+mineral+shower+head+filter
3) Do I need a special "portable" water softener/heavy metal filter or will any do? What is the difference?
4) When connecting to the hose bib, should it go hose bib --> water filter --> softer/heavy metal filter --> House OR water filter --> hose bib --> softer/heavy metal filter?
5) It gets below 35 degrees ~20 nights a year or so. Will that be ok for the unit outside?
Thank you!
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