Thetruck454
New Member
I'm on city water and have been having hard water issues. Got water tested and of note is ~10gpg hardness and ~1.5ppm chlorine. Called the water company and they confirmed they use sodium hypochloite and target 1ppm.
I local plumbing supply place that I use has both watersoft and aquapure systems. My monthly city water bill confirms a peak monly flow of about 7 ccf or 5236 gallons monthly. Divide by 30 and multiply the hardness gives me 1745 grains a day. Tells me I need either 24,000 or 32,000 grain softener. As far as service flow rate, I have two bathrooms, one with a 2.5gpm shower. Add in the fact that I'll also run a dishwasher or washing machine at the same time I believe a 10gpm sfr would suffice.
I wanted to add chlorine filter ahead of the softener, is there a preference between a carbon filled tank or a cartridge fiter? Watersoft and aquapure both sell huge 10+gpm chlorine cartridge filters that I was thinking of puttting in vice a second tank with another automatic valve. Also appealing to my love of technology, watersoft's control valve has a Bluetooth app that gives me all sorts of control and usage statistics so I'm leaning that way with the softener at least.
Am I off base on anything or anyone have suggestions?
I local plumbing supply place that I use has both watersoft and aquapure systems. My monthly city water bill confirms a peak monly flow of about 7 ccf or 5236 gallons monthly. Divide by 30 and multiply the hardness gives me 1745 grains a day. Tells me I need either 24,000 or 32,000 grain softener. As far as service flow rate, I have two bathrooms, one with a 2.5gpm shower. Add in the fact that I'll also run a dishwasher or washing machine at the same time I believe a 10gpm sfr would suffice.
I wanted to add chlorine filter ahead of the softener, is there a preference between a carbon filled tank or a cartridge fiter? Watersoft and aquapure both sell huge 10+gpm chlorine cartridge filters that I was thinking of puttting in vice a second tank with another automatic valve. Also appealing to my love of technology, watersoft's control valve has a Bluetooth app that gives me all sorts of control and usage statistics so I'm leaning that way with the softener at least.
Am I off base on anything or anyone have suggestions?