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With recent home purchase we inherited a LifeSource whole house water treatment system with sediment prefilter. Online reviews are widely spaced from wow to ugh. First order of business is the...

Here's another question...assuming thermal expansion is spiking the water pressure, would it be better to install an expansion tank in proximity to both water heaters? For example if I install a...

Jim, thx for help. Good point on approximating the piping volume. I used the Amtrol expansion tank sizing calculator (assume they use a nominal pipe volume.?.). Using 80gal (twin 40gal tanks)...

Thx...would I need a single tank or one on both heaters?

City water, 3/4 supply line to Watts N45B PRV, then to twin softener system, to pressure gauge on outbound side of softener. Perhaps once every day or 2 I'll notice the pressure gauge at ~ 90psi. ...

Hach test results: supply water, 9GPG; softened water immediately turned blue with first drop. Digging back in my records I found the lab test I did prior to sizing/installing the softener. It...

Ditto, noticed your Riverside location...anyone around here sell the Hach5B over the counter?

Appreciate the responses...

Now that I look back on all the paperwork (memory not so good), I see that a softener doesn't necessarily change TDS, rather it exchanges magnesium and calcium ions...

I installed a Fleck Twinpro 100 series (dual 8"x44" tanks) softener with brine tank about 4yrs ago. At the time I upgraded to 10% crosslinked resin to deal with the city water 1.5ppm free chlorine....