Hobiecatter
New Member
I have city water at about 10 grains of hardness and have been researching on local plumbers to install a water softener.
This one plumber builds his own units using a Fleck 2510 valve with 1.5 cu ft resin. He has put many in the neigborhood and I have no complaints so far.
The one thing I've come to question so far is sizing. He doesn't go into as much detail in sizing our unit as everyone on this forum does. He's put the same unit in about half of the houses on our block and reccomends the same for us. The only thing he asked was how many people and how many bathrooms.
One thing that I am wondering about now is that I also need to have a Pressure Reducing Valve installed first. We found out our pressure on the outside bibs are at 100psi. I have not noticed any issues or high pressure facuets in the house, but as I read more, there is posibility for a disaster at those levels. I don't really want to take any chances of flooding since we have new hardwood floors
Now, once I get the pressure reduced to a suitable level, lets say @60, won't that drastically change the SFR in our house? Will it make much of a difference to requestion the sizing of the softener, or should I just go with the one he reccommends?
I don't know what the neighbors' water pressure is, as they probably don't either, but I don't think any of them have installed a PRV.
This one plumber builds his own units using a Fleck 2510 valve with 1.5 cu ft resin. He has put many in the neigborhood and I have no complaints so far.
The one thing I've come to question so far is sizing. He doesn't go into as much detail in sizing our unit as everyone on this forum does. He's put the same unit in about half of the houses on our block and reccomends the same for us. The only thing he asked was how many people and how many bathrooms.
One thing that I am wondering about now is that I also need to have a Pressure Reducing Valve installed first. We found out our pressure on the outside bibs are at 100psi. I have not noticed any issues or high pressure facuets in the house, but as I read more, there is posibility for a disaster at those levels. I don't really want to take any chances of flooding since we have new hardwood floors
Now, once I get the pressure reduced to a suitable level, lets say @60, won't that drastically change the SFR in our house? Will it make much of a difference to requestion the sizing of the softener, or should I just go with the one he reccommends?
I don't know what the neighbors' water pressure is, as they probably don't either, but I don't think any of them have installed a PRV.