On 4/30/2015 10:40 PM, micky wrote:
A friend bought a house that is only 2 or 3 years old, with a well.

She has a softener, but the water still leaves deposits on the shower
door, and on glasses after they're washed. And at the same time the
water doesn't taste good. (In her previous home she drank water from
the tap, after it went through some filter that screwed to the kitchen
faucet.)

Somewhere, here?, I got the impression that softening the water more
might lessen the deposits, but it would make the taste worse, and vice
versa. Yes????

Maybe she could fill her water pitcher with the well water, before it
went through the softener. Is there are a chance the water would
taste better then? She says there is no spigot to do that with. The
house was built with loads of bells and whistles. Shouldn't there be a
way to bypass the softener and find out what the water tastes like
unsoftened???

If it did taste better, she'd be willing to pay to put in a spigot and
go to the basement to fill her water bottle. She might even be willing
to run a pipe up to the kitchen counter.

She lives in what was rolling farmland near Finksburg / Westminster
Maryland. Only a quarter mile from one of Baltimore's water
reservoirs. IIRC, Baltimore barely treats its water -- just a little
chlorine and maybe fluoride -- before sending it to homes.

Thanks


I don't treat mine and it tastes fine but wife does not like it because
sitting in a container will show sediment. I have a sediment filter but
apparently something occurs to precipitate minerals on standing.
Plumber tested my water for free as he might have gotten the job to put
in a softener. I thought results were borderline and did nothing.
Actually for those with heart conditions softened water with high sodium
is worse to drink.

Softeners exchange calcium for sodium and should not effect taste.
Carbon filters or reverse osmosis could get rid of bad taste.

I've got neighbors that have bottled water delivered but wife buys
bottled when she wants water to just drink.