We have a Rainsoft whole house water conditioner. It seems to do the job but sometimes I see some pink around the filter faucet and around the drain in the sink where the water can sit. A neighbor said that reverse osmosis is better because you don't use salt but I thought that they all used salt. Can anyone enlighten me about both systems.. pros and cons?
Thanks for you help.

Syl

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Originally Posted by syl

We have a Rainsoft whole house water conditioner. It seems to do the job but sometimes I see some pink around the filter faucet and around the drain in the sink where the water can sit. A neighbor said that reverse osmosis is better because you don't use salt but I thought that they all used salt. Can anyone enlighten me about both systems.. pros and cons?
Thanks for you help.

Syl

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reverse osmosis is the best, the whole house reverse osmosis system cost an arm and a leg to buy and install plus it also cost arm to operate and maintenance

We had already gotten the Rainsoft conditioner several years ago and a neighbor was talking about the salt that we are getting in our water. From what I read the sodium is almost negligible. For folks on a salt restricted diet, I wonder how bad this is. Does the reverse osmosis system also have sodium in the tap water?

Thank you for taking time to answer my posts.

Regards,

Sylvia

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Originally Posted by syl

We had already gotten the Rainsoft conditioner several years ago and a neighbor was talking about the salt that we are getting in our water. From what I read the sodium is almost negligible. For folks on a salt restricted diet, I wonder how bad this is. Does the reverse osmosis system also have sodium in the tap water?

Thank you for taking time to answer my posts.

Regards,

Sylvia

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There is no salt in reverse osmosis, it just filter the water ( and kill the bacterials with UV lite)... just buy a small system for cooking and drinking, it cost a lot less than the whole house system... try this site ampac1, you could talk to a live person

Thank you for all your informaiton.
Regards, Sylvia

You can buy a 5 stage filtration system that fits under the kitchen sink. It has two granular activated carbon filters, to remove chlorine, bad taste & odors, a 5 micron sediment filter to remove solids, an R/O filter and a 10" GAC filter to enhance clarity and taste. It puts out great water, but is a bit slow in recovery if you need large amounts of water at one time. Costco and Sam's sell them for under $160; Home Depot a bit more. Also the directions recommend a water softener upstream to keep the R/O membrane from getting crudded up.

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Originally Posted by Dr D

You can buy a 5 stage filtration system that fits under the kitchen sink. It has two granular activated carbon filters, to remove chlorine, bad taste & odors, a 5 micron sediment filter to remove solids, an R/O filter and a 10" GAC filter to enhance clarity and taste. It puts out great water, but is a bit slow in recovery if you need large amounts of water at one time. Costco and Sam's sell them for under $160; Home Depot a bit more. Also the directions recomend a water softener upstream to keep the R/O membrane from getting crudded up.

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install a larger holding tank if the recovery time is too slow for your usage, but the system also have its limit