Tim Kelly Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Make sure you have an unsoftened supply going to your central heating system too. You don't want salty water in your central heating system. Can be quite expensive to properly install water softeners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaymo Posted November 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 (edited) Make sure you have an unsoftened supply going to your central heating system too. You don't want salty water in your central heating system. Can be quite expensive to properly install water softeners.Top tip, but in this case not applicable.Our heating here is Log burner, elec rads and reversible AirCon which we use the most. Although today is the first day we have needed any heating since march :-) Edited November 4, 2014 by Jaymo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz2202 Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Make sure you have an unsoftened supply going to your central heating system too. You don't want salty water in your central heating system. Can be quite expensive to properly install water softeners. This only matters if you have an aluminium heat exchanger. (i.e crappy worcesters). Most boilers have stainless heat exchangers and softened water is fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Kelly Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Not sure I'd want salty water in my steel radiators either.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBeaky Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 If you get salt water through your softener, it's broken! All a softener does is replace the calcium and magnesium ions with sodium ions - the salt is merely a source of sodium. However, softened water is a bit more corrosive than hard, so you need to make sure your central heating has sufficient corrosion inhibitor in the water off you are going to switch the makeup to soft. On the domestic hot water side, you will ruin the heat exchanger far quicker by scaling it up with hard water than by corroding it with soft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicW Posted November 8, 2014 Report Share Posted November 8, 2014 If you have an outside tap for use in the garden it must be hard water not the softened stuff, the plants will not like it. On the other hand soft water is great for washing your car, no smears, and it's far better for use in your screenwashers. It was easy for me to install both as the garden tap is out the back on the other side of the wall to the kitchen sink and the car washing tap is out the front of the garage with a feed from the soft, cold supply . Vic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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