Greetings - first post on this forum. I recently sold my home where I had a typical residential softener that regenerated via salt and moved into a condo. This condo has VERY hard water, and worse yet, this building has a common boiler for hot water. So while our monthly maintenance includes all the cold water and hot water we want, I would like to soften it.
Coming into the condo under the master bath vanity is two main shut off's one for cold and one for hot water. I could see re-plumbing this cold water supply to go to one of these smaller resin tanks like people take with them in their RV, etc. and then remove it periodically to have a softener company regenerate it, but that would only give me soft COLD water.
I was wondering if I also re-routed the hot water plumbing to a second small resin tank (I know, this is a lot of equipment to put under a vanity in a bathroom), do you see any issues with running hot water through a softener resin tank other than it might take longer for the water to get hot since the water in this tank would cool down when not in use?
Any other ideas how to get softwater in this condo other than convincing the other 111 units in this building that they have been putting up with lousy water and we should invest in a building wide, industrial softener?
Thanks! - Tom
Coming into the condo under the master bath vanity is two main shut off's one for cold and one for hot water. I could see re-plumbing this cold water supply to go to one of these smaller resin tanks like people take with them in their RV, etc. and then remove it periodically to have a softener company regenerate it, but that would only give me soft COLD water.
I was wondering if I also re-routed the hot water plumbing to a second small resin tank (I know, this is a lot of equipment to put under a vanity in a bathroom), do you see any issues with running hot water through a softener resin tank other than it might take longer for the water to get hot since the water in this tank would cool down when not in use?
Any other ideas how to get softwater in this condo other than convincing the other 111 units in this building that they have been putting up with lousy water and we should invest in a building wide, industrial softener?
Thanks! - Tom