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Originally Posted by vwnate1
? What about the reverse osmosis typ ? .
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In hard water areas, RO filters are *EXTREMELY* expensive to operate, very wasteful with water, and suffer a very short membrane life. Around here, a typical undercounter style will only last about a month without a softener to take out some of the mineral content first.
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Originally Posted by HuskyMan
Where do I look to see if there are hook-ups for a water softener? The hot water heater is in the garage.
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If you have hookups for a softener, you'll have a loop of pipe sticking out of the wall or a set of 2 or 3 valves with a drain. It may look as though someone was going to connect a sink and "forgot".
If your water heater is in the garage, that's a good indication that the water main enters there somewhere. Typically houses plumbed for softeners have the outside sill faucets separated off from the soft water supply.