Just back from an interesting visit to the Homebuilding and Renovating show,
where I was surprised to find a design company offering a house called The
Millstone - I wonder if they have many takers?

More practically, I looked at the range of Kinetico water softeners which
don't require an electricity supply, something new to me. They have a
website at http://www.kinetico.co.uk/ .

A rival softener company at the show told me that they were useless and
didn't work at all, but given that the salesman came out with this
completely unprompted and pretty much the moment I started to ask about his
own product, I suspect that it was simply a spoiler tactic rather than an
accurate scientific assessment.

Does anyone here have any experience of the Kinetico units?