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Bob

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Be sure and check out all your options. I don't have well water but
the water here in FL is very hard and has lots of calcium and other
minerals that causes water spots and shortens the life of appliances
that use water.

We have a water softener that we bought at Home Depot. I don't know
what the initial cost of installing one of these is because there was
already one here when we bought the house. We replaced it recently and
my husband was able to do that himself. The water softener cost a
little under one thousand. It won't solve the rotten egg smell problem
,caused I've been told, by sulfur. Our neighbors with wells for lawn
irrigation also get rust problems .... it's in the water, too, It
causes rusty looking spots on the concrete sidewalks.

We have been mostly buying drinking water since moving to FL. Softened
water is fine for showers and laundry.

When I first moved to Florida, we lived in an apartment. We also had an
aquarium. Testing the water showed it to be extremely hard. It was also
very cloudy. I never could clear that up and switched to bottled water
for the aquarium. We continued to use a Brita water filter for our
drinking water as it was a lot cheaper than bottled water. A co-worker
lived less than a quarter mile away and had hard, but clear tap water
and he had no trouble with it in his aquarium. I couldn't figure why
things were so different between our two locations. As it turns out,
there was a canal between us and his subdivision was served by a
different water source than we were. When we bought a house several
miles to the south, we were on the opposite side of the canal from the
apartment and I was able to switch to tap water for the aquarium.

My point is simply that you and your neighbor can very easily have
different water problems.

Bob