Water Softener Kitchen Tap

I would love some advice from folks who have a water softener and a water filtration system.

Water softener kitchen tap.

Unsoftened water away from the kitchen sink. Soft water is likely to contain lots of sodium heavy metals like lead and almost no minerals. Where possible the water softener should be sited close to the rising main allowing for any required hard water draw off points ie drinking tap and outside tap. If you are happy to use softened water for all domestic purposes you can choose not to have an unsoftened water tap fitted.

Drinking soft water vs. The water softener must be connected to a drain and needs an overflow point. It is a kind of a filter for your taps and showers. We are installing a kinetico water softener and are planning a reverse osmosis ro water filtration system just for the kitchen.

Whichever tap you choose our three way kitchen taps all do the same thing give you hot cold and filtered water directly from one tap. Toilets hose bibs basement sinks and other cold water taps typically do not need to be connected to a softener. In many cases people choose to soften only the hot water. For most areas of the uk the sodium levels of softened water are well within the limits.

Does my water softener have to go in the kitchen. Unless you have a working water softener in your home your tap water is likely to be hard. I had assumed that in the kitchen the soft water will go to the ro filtration and feed the prep sink and the pot filler. Depending on your water quality some softeners may be able to fully or partially remove copper iron manganese and radium in addition to calcium and magnesium.

Choose from water filter taps with 2 or 3 levers or swan or angled neck. Designated hard water taps can be installed with any sink in your household normally done so at the kitchen sink for convenience. However in a few parts of the uk where the water is particularly hard sodium levels may exceed the recommended amount hence the choice to include a drinking water tap with your install. To make it easy we have included some discounted drinking.

The perfect way to resolve this issue is to install a device known as a hard water softener to your taps. While drinking softened water is perfectly safe some people prefer the taste of non softened water so your drinking water tap bypasses the softener instead using the filter to remove impurities. Use a water hardness test kit if you really want to be sure. We shall look into the mechanism of the hard water softener when we discuss the buying guide.

In addition the distance from the softener to the drain. It enables you to get soft water at the turn of a tap.