Posted by MarkB_MI on February 13, 2011 at 03:12:33 from (166.203.51.81):
In Reply to: OT Water softeners posted by teddy52food on February 12, 2011 at 09:55:32:
OK, I checked out their website. It's interesting, but I'm not convinced. It looks better than a lot of the other snake oil hard water gadgets (like the magnets you put around your pipes), but I don't see why it would be any better than a conventional water softener. A regular water softener swaps the calcium, iron and magnesium ions for sodium ions. Now sodium isn't exactly good for you, but if you add a reverse osmosis unit downstream of the softener for drinking water you end up with distilled water. Can't get any purer than that.
This "chelation" unit adds some chemical to the water that bonds to the hard water ions to make them soluble. Do we know for sure that the resulting compounds are any safer than sodium? When I wash my car with soft water I have no problem with water spots. Do you get the same results with chelation?
The other thing is cost. My demand water softener and RO system was not cheap to install. I did the work myself and still spent close to a grand. But now it's nearly maintenance-free; I go through 80 lbs of Dura-Cube Red-Out salt every two months, which works out to six bucks a month. The nuvoH2O system for a typical house costs about seven hundred bucks, which is comparable to what you'd pay for a decent water softener, less installation. But the cartridges cost 70 bucks apiece and have to be replaced every six months. So that's ten bucks a month, which makes it quite a bit more expensive than salt.
The only real advantage to this unit that I can see is you don't have to lug heavy bags of salt down to your basement. You have to weigh that against the fact that you can buy salt anywhere, but if this company goes under, your very expensive water treatment device is useless without its proprietary cartridges.
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