sgamer
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I'm wondering if this exists; a valve that either works in conjunction with a water softener which would be ideal (possibly open to replacing ours) or a simple timed valve that will shut off the hot water during the time when the softener could be recharging like every night from 11pm to 3:30am?
My wife is a crazy morning person and I'm a normal night owl so the period of time to recharge without impacting the hot water tank is not long. I've found that it takes very little unconditioned water to harden the water in the tank. So at night, if the softener is running and I forget to use cold exclusively (which is not hard to do with single handle faucets) we have not so soft water for a few days. On the flip side of the coin, my wife showers at like 4am and if the softener is still running we have no soft water until we've used enough hot water to replace it with soft water. This should only happen if the clock is off which happens at least once a year due to DST but also when she gets up even earlier which I'll never understand
So basically I'd like to shut off the hot water whenever the softener is recharging. Is there a solution for this?
My wife is a crazy morning person and I'm a normal night owl so the period of time to recharge without impacting the hot water tank is not long. I've found that it takes very little unconditioned water to harden the water in the tank. So at night, if the softener is running and I forget to use cold exclusively (which is not hard to do with single handle faucets) we have not so soft water for a few days. On the flip side of the coin, my wife showers at like 4am and if the softener is still running we have no soft water until we've used enough hot water to replace it with soft water. This should only happen if the clock is off which happens at least once a year due to DST but also when she gets up even earlier which I'll never understand
So basically I'd like to shut off the hot water whenever the softener is recharging. Is there a solution for this?
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