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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: A & J Owen Window Cleaning on March 13, 2011, 04:45:11 pm

Title: softerning the water before filtering
Post by: A & J Owen Window Cleaning on March 13, 2011, 04:45:11 pm

as i say just as my tds is so high i want to find how i can soften the water before the filter process starts  as im goin through resin like tommorrow cheers alan

Title: Re: softerning the water before filtering
Post by: Lee GLS on March 13, 2011, 06:02:18 pm

water softeners dont reduce the tds or make it any purer, they only help prolong you filters.

Title: Re: softerning the water before filtering
Post by: Lee GLS on March 13, 2011, 06:05:27 pm

if you do want to soften it, pure freedom sell a softening kit for £130 ish, or you can make your on, just get a resin tank fill it with softening beads and put it before your filters, it will need softeing salt running through the softening resin quite regularly to regenerate the resin.

Title: Re: softerning the water before filtering
Post by: windiewasher on March 13, 2011, 06:07:15 pm

It softens your water to prolong your filters and resin.it does bring your  Tds down really low before entering the Di.I was talking to vyair about them.

Title: Re: softerning the water before filtering
Post by: luther1 on March 13, 2011, 06:24:49 pm

Lees correct. A water softener won't reduce tds but it will prolong the life of your filters/ro due to the descaling of the hard water.

Your high tds has nothing to do with hard water

Title: Re: softerning the water before filtering
Post by: Lee GLS on March 13, 2011, 06:48:28 pm

it only prolongs the filters because it stops the limescale building up in them, so it will have no effect on the resin.

Title: Re: softerning the water before filtering
Post by: A & J Owen Window Cleaning on March 13, 2011, 07:00:27 pm

cheers lads didnt know if there was anything i can do to reduce usage of resin

Title: Re: softerning the water before filtering
Post by: Lee GLS on March 13, 2011, 07:49:29 pm

what ro do you use, what is you tds before and after the ro