Re: Got hard water?
Never had it tested. I was expecting to before I installed a "real" system. I was preparing to pick the best potassium chloride softener I could find but figgered I'd try these magnet things first. We're down 360' through rock. It tastes great, unlike my nearest neighbor (1/4 mi downhill from us with a 120' deep well) whose water reeks of sulpher so bad that he had to have a treatment system installed to even use it. But he has an abundant supply. Our well produces about 3 gallons/hour (yes, hour!) but has always been good tasting just limited in quantity and hard. Farther up into the hills from us they have acid problems and can't use copper plumbing.
With our limited supply we just don't have anything outside (like lawn) requiring water. We supply animals with a jug in the shower we fill until the hot water gets there. We have bottled to drink since it's cheap enough and they deliver, but we use well water for coffee and boiling pasta and things like that.
It is a water system that we've adapted to, and now much improved because of these stupid magnet things. Since we are "off-grid" for power, it's taken some adapting there too. But all things considered I wouldn't want to move back into our old subdivision (or worse -- the apartment we lived in after we married in 1971). We bought 45 acres and planted ourselves smack dab in the middle away from anybody.
Phil
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