Had a water softener installed in my home last week.

[Rez90]

and my lord what a difference. What was once a job is now effortless. My lather explodes with every soap i've tried since....and the shave itself is smoother and my skin is happier.

For anyone with hard water...do yourself a favor and get a softener. I DE shaved for almost 2 years without one and can't belive what i was missing.

Cheers

 

[Isaac]

and my lord what a difference. What was once a job is now effortless. My lather explodes with every soap i've tried since....and the shave itself is smoother and my skin is happier.

For anyone with hard water...do yourself a favor and get a softener. I DE shaved for almost 2 years without one and can't belive what i was missing.

Cheers

I dont think I will ever be without one, financing allowing of course.

 

[Mick]

People do not realize how important water is to shaving. It comes out of the faucet and is taken for granted.

Here we are on city water that is from a reservoir/lake so on the soft side.

At our cabin we have a dug well which has even softer water.

Never any issues making lather if you have thee right water.

If you have hard water or water with a lot of mineral content get a water softener or use distilled/bottled water.

 

[Harry Snider]

Softened water is THE only way to go!

 

[Sunflake]

I had the exact experience about a month ago when I installed a water softener. It's night and day different.

 

[malocchio]

AMEN !...I just moved from a great water city to a mineral deposit laden hard as heck water city..The lather is nowhere near as good,no matter what I do...I will try some water passed through my PUR faucet filter,and if that does not help I will go the distilled water route.

 

[5savages]

If you want to save some money, they're fairly easy to install too, as long as you have the space. It's about a 3 beer job.

 

[rptanner9]

I've been thinking about getting a water softner for some time now, but that's long down the list of things that either need to be bought or fixed. Just out of curiosity, how much are water softners going for nowadays? I know the easy answer is, "it depends", but I'm just wondering about your average, run-of-the-mill ones.

 

[Harry Snider]

I've been thinking about getting a water softner for some time now, but that's long down the list of things that either need to be bought or fixed. Just out of curiosity, how much are water softners going for nowadays? I know the easy answer is, "it depends", but I'm just wondering about your average, run-of-the-mill ones.

You can cut out the middle man and buy online. Depending on your household needs in terms of usage, you can probably expect to pay ballpark 400 to 600$. Unless a Kinetico salesman makes it by your front door; then you can laugh when he quotes you on multiple thousands of dollars!

 

[LoveThatBurn]

Are there any single facuet softeners? I live in an apartment and would love one just for my bathroom, but could never find any. =/

 

[Gammon]

My water softener is broken. It will not automatically regenerate, so I have to manually regenerate it. I don't usually regenerate it on schedule. When I first start lathering, I can tell immediately how "hard" the water is and simply adjust my whole shave process to match. I actually don't find that much of a difference other than the amount of soap I end up using to make lather.

 

[Quigg]

I have thought about getting one for years, because we have hard water deposits on faucets and dishware. Now, of course, I have to worry about it on my razors, too . I'd appreciates some tips and details about what kind of setup and brands to buy, as well as a good source to buy it.

 

[Dusty1]

I would love one but I watch my sodium intake for one, and secondly we have a septic system and all that salt will shorten the life of your leach field. I guess I enjoy soft water that much more when we travel.

 

[5savages]

I would love one but I watch my sodium intake for one, and secondly we have a septic system and all that salt will shorten the life of your leach field. I guess I enjoy soft water that much more when we travel.

I don't know how it affect your septic system, but you don't have to worry about your drinking water. Around here, when you put in a water softener, you bypass the water softener for the cold water line of your kitchen sink and for your outdoor faucets. Hard water tastes much better than soft water, though soft is drinkable. I drink it from my bathroom sink. Even if you did hook it so you softened your drinking water, the salt is only used in the recharge process. It's not normally in the loop otherwise.

I bought a Kenmore water softener from Sears on clearance for $400, but that was years ago. I think there are just a few actual manufacturers of the system and other companies put their names on it. I don't know what features are available, but I do like that ours is demand based, meaning it's not a daily schedule, but regenerates based on the number of gallons passed through the system.

 

[Gammon]

we have a septic system and all that salt will shorten the life of your leach field.

Don't run the discharge from the softener into your septic. Very easy. Maybe not legal, but easy.

 

[tomharr51]

Don't run the discharge from the softener into your septic. Very easy. Maybe not legal, but easy.

+1. My buddy works for a water treatment company and a lot of the people where I live have septic. They never run the discharge line into the septic system.

 

[tomharr51]

I just replaced my old softener with a new one and I have noticed a tremendous improvement in building lather.

 

[Mendel]

Our water softener from Culligan was the best investment we ever made. Affordable, an outstanding install, and great service.

 

[tomharr51]

I would love one but I watch my sodium intake for one, and secondly we have a septic system and all that salt will shorten the life of your leach field. I guess I enjoy soft water that much more when we travel.

They shouldn't run the discharge line into your septic system. I have a septic system and the discharge line does not go into my septic system. My buddy installs softeners and said they never have them drain into the septic. I was also concerned about sodium in my drinking water for my wife and kids so I had a reverse osmosis (ro) filter installed. It will create bottled water quality water plus it has a separate cartridge to make the water more palette able because softened water doesn't taste as good.

 

[5savages]

Here's what the Mayo Clinic has to say about sodium level is softened water:

An 8-ounce (237-milliliter) glass of softened water generally contains less than 12.5 milligrams of sodium, which is well within the Food and Drug Administration's definition of "very low sodium." The majority of sodium in the average diet comes from table salt and processed foods. Thus, the best way to decrease the sodium in your diet is by cutting back on table salt and processed foods.

But seriously, bypass the cold water to the kitchen sink. Hard water tastes so much better than soft water.