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Water Softeners Dorot29701@aol.com 06-01-2006
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Posted by Dorot29701@aol.com on June 1, 2006, 7:43 pm
We are in the market for a new water softener. We tried repairing our
old one but it got too expensive so we are going to buy a new one. So
far the only two brands we've seen are Whirlpool at Lowe's and GE's at
Home Depot. Does anyone know anything about these? The price seems
dictated by how many gallons it will treat...but we don't know anyone
who has used these brands of water softeners. Thanks. We would like
one that will last at least five years.


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Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on June 1, 2006, 8:09 pm

> We are in the market for a new water softener. We tried repairing our
> old one but it got too expensive so we are going to buy a new one. So
> far the only two brands we've seen are Whirlpool at Lowe's and GE's at
> Home Depot. Does anyone know anything about these? The price seems
> dictated by how many gallons it will treat...but we don't know anyone
> who has used these brands of water softeners. Thanks. We would like
> one that will last at least five years.
>

Why not get one that will last 10 or 20 years? Consider
http://www.ecowater.com/ among other good brands. Look for a dealer on
their web site or the hone book. we use one at work and put a minimum of
8,000 gallons a day, sometimes as high as 14,000 gallons a day through it.
Last week it had its first repair in five y ears of service and it took just
a couple of minutes. Considering the design and simple modular parts
replacement, I expect to get another 10 years out of it, maybe more.

Lowes and HD tend to sell mediocre bands at the lowest possible price, not
the best overall value. Shop around.
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/




Posted by Rich on June 1, 2006, 9:16 pm

> We are in the market for a new water softener. We tried repairing our
> old one but it got too expensive so we are going to buy a new one. So
> far the only two brands we've seen are Whirlpool at Lowe's and GE's at
> Home Depot. Does anyone know anything about these? The price seems
> dictated by how many gallons it will treat...but we don't know anyone
> who has used these brands of water softeners. Thanks. We would like
> one that will last at least five years.
>

Water Boss would get my vote. I had one that was so great the only problem
was I would forget to add salt it was so efficient and only generated on
demand.

Rich




Posted by Dorot29701@aol.com on June 2, 2006, 8:14 am
It's a Water Boss we are replacing. Bought it in 2001. After ordering
a series of parts that didn't help, we have decided to just stop and
instead of getting another more expensive part, to just get a new
water softener. Glad you had better luck with yours....



Rich wrote:
> > We are in the market for a new water softener. We tried repairing our
> > old one but it got too expensive so we are going to buy a new one. So
> > far the only two brands we've seen are Whirlpool at Lowe's and GE's at
> > Home Depot. Does anyone know anything about these? The price seems
> > dictated by how many gallons it will treat...but we don't know anyone
> > who has used these brands of water softeners. Thanks. We would like
> > one that will last at least five years.
> >
>
> Water Boss would get my vote. I had one that was so great the only problem
> was I would forget to add salt it was so efficient and only generated on
> demand.
>
> Rich


Posted by Rich on June 2, 2006, 8:28 am
The only thing I ever had to do to mine was the timer they have a plastic
gear there to act as a mechanical fuse it fails so the clock doesn't stall
and burn out cost $8 to replace and was golden for a few years after that.
What parts did you need to replace? I found the unit so easy to work on it
was worth the effert to fix. But I guess YMMV?

Good luck, Rich


> It's a Water Boss we are replacing. Bought it in 2001. After ordering
> a series of parts that didn't help, we have decided to just stop and
> instead of getting another more expensive part, to just get a new
> water softener. Glad you had better luck with yours....
>
>
>
> Rich wrote:
>> > We are in the market for a new water softener. We tried repairing our
>> > old one but it got too expensive so we are going to buy a new one. So
>> > far the only two brands we've seen are Whirlpool at Lowe's and GE's at
>> > Home Depot. Does anyone know anything about these? The price seems
>> > dictated by how many gallons it will treat...but we don't know anyone
>> > who has used these brands of water softeners. Thanks. We would like
>> > one that will last at least five years.
>> >
>>
>> Water Boss would get my vote. I had one that was so great the only
>> problem
>> was I would forget to add salt it was so efficient and only generated on
>> demand.
>>
>> Rich
>



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