ᐅ Water Softening System – Is a Bypass Worthwhile for the Garden and Kitchen?
Created on: 6 Aug 2021 13:20
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AllThumbs
Hello everyone,
we need to decide over the weekend how to install our water softening system. (It will probably be a Judo i-soft.)
Until now, I always thought it made sense not to run the outdoor tap and kitchen sink through the softener.
The outdoor tap, to avoid unnecessary salt consumption, and the sink, because we plan to use the tap water as drinking water.
A few things are now making me doubt this:
I also considered a sink with two faucet holes (1x softened, 1x for drinking), but that doesn’t really seem practical since I would always have to run the water for a while before drinking.
What’s your opinion on this? Would you say, "I wish I had planned a second line back then" or "I could have saved myself the trouble and just live with the scale buildup on the sink every day"?
we need to decide over the weekend how to install our water softening system. (It will probably be a Judo i-soft.)
Until now, I always thought it made sense not to run the outdoor tap and kitchen sink through the softener.
The outdoor tap, to avoid unnecessary salt consumption, and the sink, because we plan to use the tap water as drinking water.
A few things are now making me doubt this:
- After a quick search, the salt consumption for an outdoor tap seems negligible?
- The benefit of softening is lost at one of the critical points – the kitchen sink.
- The whole setup costs about 600 Euro extra.
I also considered a sink with two faucet holes (1x softened, 1x for drinking), but that doesn’t really seem practical since I would always have to run the water for a while before drinking.
What’s your opinion on this? Would you say, "I wish I had planned a second line back then" or "I could have saved myself the trouble and just live with the scale buildup on the sink every day"?
I would definitely install a bypass line for the drinking water in the kitchen. The fact that the sink then gets more limescale buildup is a negligible issue. In my case, the single-lever mixer is mounted on the wall, not on the sink. Next to it, there is simply another tap for unsoftened cold water.
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AllThumbs12 Aug 2021 13:17That’s exactly what has now been ordered, thanks for the input. Let’s see if I would pass this on as a tip next year.