Soft water users... I have a question

Richard · May 15, 2005

It's been said that when someone takes a shower with soft water (coming from hard) that the water is "slimey".

I've experienced this myself and frankly did not like it at first. I'm also not sure if I would get used to it.

This leads me to my question(s)

1. Do you become accustomed to that "slimey" feel?

2. If you later (after becoming accustomed) take a shower in hard water, does IT somehow feel strange & "yucky"? If so, how might you describe it?

I made mention to my wife last night that soft water gives that slimey feel and she said she did NOT want that. As it is, our (well) water will leave you feeling "squeeky" clean. As I'm in process of replumbing the basement for a bathroom, moving water heater, possibly adding a softener, the sooner I figure out my softener reality, the sooner I can finish.

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Birdman · May 15, 2005

Yes you quickly get accostomed to the slimey feeling and when you shower somewhere else it feels strange, like you did not get clean. Either way you will adapt, or at least I did, and whatever you are accostomed to will seem normal and everything else will seem odd. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

bczoom · May 15, 2005

Richard,

That "slimy" feeling is normal and a good thing.
The "squeaky clean" is just the opposite. You squeak because of all the mineral particles that are stuck to your body.
The "slimy" feeling is actually that your body is in fact clean and lacking all the mineral deposits.

edski · May 15, 2005

I wouldn't call it "slimey", maybe slickery. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
You'll rinse your self off twice in the shower swearing you didn't get all the soap off (at first).

Have you tested your water for hardness?
If you don't need it, why buy/install.
W/o a softener my glasses are left with a white haze. Same when I wash my truck.
You could always install the softener and bypass the shower.

thcri · May 15, 2005

I have gotten to the point that I hate a shower not being softened. I usually will go and fill the water softner if I don't have the good slimey feeling. You will get use to it fast. Kind of like regular pop versus diet pop. You will get use to it and then hate going back.

murph

Richard · May 15, 2005

( Kind of like regular pop versus diet pop. You will get use to it and then hate going back. )

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Say that aint so!!!

That's why I havn't changed to diet yet /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

PineRidge · May 15, 2005

I'm yet another that doesn't compare the soft water to feeling slimey. Fact is if and when we do run out of soft water the un-softened water is so hard here that it will beat you to death just coming out the shower head, man that's hard.....

We have also found that soap goes a lot further and you won't need nearly as much to do the same job. Once you get used to real soft water you won't want to go back.

Have also heard that people on low salt diets should not drink it since it will contain more sodium than un-softened water. Maybe someone else can verify that bit of trivia.

thcri · May 15, 2005

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Have also heard that people on low salt diets should not drink it since it will contain more sodium than un-softened water. Maybe someone else can verify that bit of trivia. )

I can't drink the softwater, taste like sh*t. Yes it does contain salt. My wife doesn't mind it at all. Our company installs a couple hundred softners a year. We don't soften the cold water at the kitchen sink as this is where most people get their drinking water.

murph

Richard · May 15, 2005

Could you just put a filter at the kitchen to help? Or would salt pass through a filter like that?

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willywildes · May 15, 2005

Its not slimy its slick. it will save on soap, in the shower and in the clothes washer. and a reverse osmosis system will remove the salt for drinking. living on a well its a way of life.