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Hdrider


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 After spending the last few months in hard water areas Diane finally said to me a couple days ago,,,, I'm tired of the hard water. I want you get a water softner and you know how you always go overboard on what you get,,,, well don't change your ways on this LOL!!



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Hi, FWIW, we spend a good deal of time in Las Vegas and the southwest generally, and are now on our second water softener. We first bought a small unit from Camping World, but our water is such that we needed to regeneralte it too often. We found a larger unit on E-Bay (for less $), from a guy in Arizona, which now lasts us about a month between regen. Uses three pounds of table salt. The issue for us became calcification of one of the water shut-off valves for our washer, which could not be turned off due to lime scale build up. Whichever you buy, it is a wise investment in hard water areas.

 

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I'm new to RVing and would greatly appreciate hearing of your water softner research and your eventual purchase.  Please post again or email me directly.

 

Thanks,

Dave



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I have a Mark 8000 which is a 8000 grain unit. In our summer location in CO where the water is 20 grains per gallon of hardness, I have to regenerate about every 30 days. In AZ where we spend the winter the hardness is 50 grains per gallon and I have to regenerate every 11 days.

The Mark 8000 costs $219 which includes shipping. You can see it HERE.

Mine takes one box of common table salt to regenerate.It would nice to have a higher grain capacity but I don't have room for one much bigger.

Flowpure does have a 10,000 grain unit.

 

I have it connected after my whole house water filter and both are fitted with quick disconnects so regenerating it is easy.



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