I have a carbon wrapped whole house water filter hooked up right before my water softener, the filter is supposed to last 3 months but i’m fortunate if i get 3 weeks. Sometimes i barely get 2 weeks. Certain times of the year, usually winter, it will go almost a month.

And sometimes i get alot of sediment that clogs up my filter, but right now no sediment, just the match smell and taste. Any out there understand why wells act like that? Thanks.

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I found my old silver & amethyst ring at the bottom of my jewelry box and I don’t have any silver cleaner/polish…. whatever it is you’re supposed to use.

It seems like I watched this show once where this woman poured water softener into a foil-lined pan and put her silver in it for cleaning. ‘Cause I remember trying to find a "water softener" to buy and all I could find was big whole-house softening or filtration equipment. And I started to wonder if regular laundry liquid fabric softener would do the same thing?

Anything…. I just need some way of getting the tarnish off and shining my ring up.. Thx in advance! =D

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little bubbles in it—and I mean a LOT.

I have a water softener bc I have hard water which takes salt. The reverse osmosis is supposed to reverse that.

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I have an old water softener from a previous house. My new house needs a whole house charcoal filter. Can I change out the softener media for activated charcoal and use the same filter for whole house removal of taste etc.? If so, what steps are required?
Thanks for offering your experience. RO really won’t work for me because of my water volume. Am hoping to be able to exchange the media for charcoal in a traditional softener.

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check it out. the under the sink called the reverse osmosis filters cost 9 include install and tax comes with the carbon filter which you have to unscrew and put in new filter every six months. and the other one costs 9 with install and tax. with this one , you throw away the whole filter unlike the carbon filter one. which one is better. also there the whole house filter which comes with water softener and the under the sink filter for 00 with tax and install. any suggestions or opinions are appreciated. thanks.

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I’m installing a water softener on the side of my house, out there I already have 4 small filters and one large carbon filter. Do I install the softener before or after these filters?

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We want to get away from the cartriage type water filters for our well water. Is there anything, like the size of a water softener, that would backwash itself?

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I just moved into a place that has well water and it has iron and sulfur in it. I have a water softener and a double filtration system in place but my hair is still somewhat orange from the water. The water runs clear but still stains the tubs, sinks, toilets, washer, and my hair. What do I do? I am renting and love the house!

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this is a picture of the water shut off valve
there is one of these for both toilets and 2 for each sink, 1 hot 1 cold

usually these valves are the turn knob type, but for whatever reason, these have a knob that pulls out to shut off the water, and push in to turn the water back on

well the problem is that these shut off valves are popping off by themselves randomly throughout the house,

the only other thing i can think of is that it may be related to the well pump, water softener or filtration system,

i’ve had one plumber come out and look at it, and he couldn’t figure it out, and he wanted to replace all of the shut off valves with the standard type of valve to fix it, which was going to be expensive for labor
yeah they are shutting off the water by themselves

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I am convinced that Sodium Fluoride is harmful to the brain.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/

I have this water filter at home in the garage and it’s a water softener that uses the salt pellets. Does this device remove sodium fluoride or just calcium and the other positively charged stuff???

10 pts will be given to the most clear answer!

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