Saltless Water Softener?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨somedude@lemmy.ninja⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

Has anyone had good experiences with a saltless water softener/conditioner in their home?

I live in an area with hard water, at about 400ppm. I have a salt water softener already, but am tired of having to fill it with salt that just ends up in my septic system, and ultimately into the ground water.

Most advice says you can’t soften water without salt. But I’ve had good experience with ProOne’s gravity water filter, and noticed they also have a water softener/conditioner, but I can’t find much info or really any reviews on it: prooneusa.com/…/prosoft-saltless-water-softener-c…

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BasicTraveler@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Brine discharge can be pretty bad for the environment, so we do some tank exchange thing with Culligan. Every other week they install a new tank and remove the old one to be recharged. Working great so far.

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- somedude@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s neat. How much do they change you? Does the salt just get released into the environment at their facility instead at your home?
  
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  - BasicTraveler@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It's about $50 a month. Nothing gets released at my house, which is nice. I'm a little out of my depth with the chemical reaction, but the idea is inside the tank are a bunch of resin beads impregnated with stuff calcium and magnesium ions will bind to. So as water flows through the tank the calcium and magnesium is removed and stored in the beads. So the beads store it, but can't store an infinite amount. The tank gets switched out every 2 weeks and culligan takes the old tank back and reverse the process. I'm sure this involves nasty stuff, but hopefully economy of scale and regulations make it a cleaner process than just dumping the salt in the ground.
    
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Bell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sounds pretty similar to one I was considering: www.aosmithatlowes.com/products/…/ao-wh-dsclr/

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dirkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s citric acid based softeners as well like nuvoh2o nuvoh2o.com

Not sure how it affects septic systems though.

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argentcorvid@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As I understand it, there is a difference between “softening” and “conditioning”, and almost all the saltless systems are “conditioners”,but for most people it doesn’t matter.

I’ve been intrigued by the magnetic ones, just because they sound and look like the snake oil things that are sold to increase gas mileage in cars, but actually seem to work.

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- somedude@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  To be honest, as long as my appliances don’t have a shorter life, I don’t have to use extra soap everywhere, and I don’t have scale build up or hard water stains, that’s all that really matters.
  
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