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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: C.C.S. on March 21, 2022, 07:30:32 am

Title: Softner
Post by: C.C.S. on March 21, 2022, 07:30:32 am

Has anyone used the DI vessel filled with salt as softener? Will it work ? I live in a very hard water area and have a couple of spare DI vessels .
Thanks

Title: Re: Softner
Post by: Granny on March 21, 2022, 09:28:48 am

AFIK it won't reduce the TDS. It replaces calcium and magnesium with other salts  usually sodium and chloride.
It doesn't scale things up as bad as hard water but the TDS is still high and I don't think it's any good for the spotting on the glass.

Title: Re: Softner
Post by: Simon Trapani on March 21, 2022, 11:05:15 am

Quote from: C.C.S. on March 21, 2022, 07:30:32 am

Has anyone used the DI vessel filled with salt as softener? Will it work ? I live in a very hard water area and have a couple of spare DI vessels .
Thanks

Yes it would work if done correctly.

But the vessel needs filling with softener resin, not salt. You back wash it with a brine (salt) solution to regenerate the softener resin when it’s exhausted (unlike di resin).

You would also need a small filter housing, preferably clear, with the tube down it to dissolve the salt in. Don’t send it through your RO whatever you do as it’ll ruin the membrane.

You’d just be making your own manual water softener & it would involve switching some hoses around. Speak to June at Gaps Water.