On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:34:04 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

I thought it was time to give our plumbing a treat, and eBay was kind
enough to furnish me with nice new combimate for thirty quid the other
day! (a full on water softener may come along in a while when I get
round to building a utility room!)

Hence I now need to decide which outlets are going to benefit most from
the phosphate dosing...

Treat the cold feed to the combi thence all the hot outlets obviously.

You could put in a second combi so that you can compare results......


I was planning on not treating the cold feed to the kitchen sink (and
water filter) - but then again are there any known health/taste issues
etc with drinking dosed water? The loss of scale in the kettle would be
nice.

One of my relatives has one.

The treated water does taste a little funny.....


I was planning to feed the remaining cold taps and loo cisterns etc in
the rest of the house as well, but is there any benefit in doing so, or
is it just going to cost more in silophos balls?

I use softened water in the loo cisterns and it does eliminate the
scaling deposit issues. Perhaps the combimate would have a similar
effect - not sure.



What about the (hardly used) outside tap?


Not really worth it.

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..andy

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