On 10/10/2016 16:42, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:37:38 +0100, harry
wrote:

On Monday, 10 October 2016 15:47:11 UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 05:43:18 +0100, Simon Mason
wrote:

On Sunday, 9 October 2016 21:58:23 UTC+1, Roger Mills wrote:
On 09/10/2016 21:00, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Simon Mason wrote:
On Sunday, 9 October 2016 14:53:44 UTC+1, Fevric J. Glandules
wrote:
Hi,

we live in a very hard water area and the kitchen tap
is now "grinding" whenever used. It's one of these [1]

https://www.howdens.com/kitchen-coll...gle-level-tap/


Got a water softener last week for £1500 - that's a thing of
the past
for me now.

Looked into the kettle today, clean as a whistle.
What a ******** you must live in.



If your water is that soft, let's hope that you haven't got any
lead pipes!
--

100% Cu.

99% Cu, 1% CuO probably.


With lead solder.

Most plumbers use compression fittings, much quicker.

No they don't. Compression fittings are far more expensive and less
reliable.