On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:56:59 +0000 (UTC), Greg W wrote:


Had a look at their website, it all sounds pretty good. Any insight on
performance and impact on flow rate? Canterbury's claims are pretty
impressive, any idea whether reality matches up?

Seems to do what it says. Where they have it under the sink the salt
container is easy to fill, I'll try to get some photos a bit later
and put them up for you to look at. He fitted it with a flow control
valve (recommended by Canterbury Water) as the water pressure here is
quite high. That has lowered the flow rate from the kitchen tap a
bit (that is plumbed in between the flow control valve and water
softener out of convenience). The outside taps also run off the
softener, again simply because of convenience of not modifying the
existing plumbing. That has lowered the flow rate from those taps to
a point where an early fairly high capacity pressure washer won't run
reliably off it - solved by using a plastic container as a water
buffer.

Running costs are very low - a bag of general purpose salt tablets
every few months and water consumption on recycling also appears to
be minimal. They are on metered water and it hasn't made a noticeable
impact on the amount they use. Other than chucking a bit of salt in
it just sits there and does its job. Self install was easy.

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Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/