Help: Water Pressure System and Water Softener for Home

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I am looking for a water softener and a water pressure system for my parents' independent house. So far the house has been working without either of these. The house is on the first floor. The overhead water tank is on the third-floor. The home area is about 4000sft. There are 4 bathrooms, one kitchen, one wash area. If there are any specific details required, please do ask, I will do my best to provide them.

I am looking for a water softening system (priority) and a water pressure system (not a priority) - the current water pressure is perfectly adequte. If there is something that can be localised only for specific bathrooms (only one or two are in use, the others are for rare occasions when there are guests), at a lower cost, I would not mind that either. But the water softener should be for the entire house. The water tank capacity is about 3500 litres.

What brands/models should I go for? And what would be the damages and possible issues?

I have never done this before, so any advice will be appreciated!
 
soulweaver said:
If there is something that can be localised only for specific bathrooms (only one or two are in use, the others are for rare occasions when there are guests), at a lower cost, I would not mind that either.
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@6pack picked up a booster pump some time ago. If you search older posts you can get more details.

Small enough to be used on a per bathroom basis. So get another. Comes on when needed and should be good enough

soulweaver said:
But the water softener should be for the entire house. The water tank capacity is about 3500 litres.

What brands/models should I go for? And what would be the damages and possible issues?
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To get an idea and If you can get service in your area.

Where are you based?

Have you measured your water hardness? It's important to know that figure first and what the range will be before spending on a house softener system so that it can cover the higher readings if required.

eg. With cauvery water in bangalore it's soft during to monsoons (60 -80)ppm total hardness and gets harder in the dry season where it's (150 - 175) ppm. Not hard but moderately hard. Above 200ppm is hard and you should see scale forming everywhere above that figure.

These are not tds measured as tds has nothing to do with hardness but comes from a water hardness kit you can get from Amazon or directly from the seller
 
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blr_p said:
Have you measured your water hardness? It's important to know that figure first and what the range will be before spending on a house softener system so that it can cover the higher readings if required.
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This is good information. I didn't think of it! Exactly why I asked. Will get the kit from Amazon and get this done.

The house is in Hyderabad.
 
soulweaver said:
Will get the kit from Amazon and get this done.
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There used to be a 250 test kit version but it has since disappeared on Amazon

That brand is well known.

There's others not that established and charging half as much. How reliable ? No idea

No harm getting additional readings and see for yourself.
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The house is in Hyderabad.
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Water is hard there but does it get still harder in the dry season. If the water is river sourced then that's a possibility
 
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Water softener operates based out of resins. Some resins are made to treat hardness upto 1000ppm-2000ppm. Beyond that only an RO system can help.

Assuming hardness is less than 500ppm, you can go with a water softener with cation resins with 10%DTB to have longer life for the resin. Typical lifenof resin is 10-15 years if maintained well.

Maintenance is regeneration of the resins (which gets deposited with calcium and other minerals) from the water using concentrated salt water(which removes the calcium and other mineral deposits) followed by a rinse cycle.

These maintenance requirements depends on the quantity of resin, hardness and the amount of water used. Choosing resin capacity and the FRP vessel size plays a big factor in how frequently you need to regenerate.

There are manaul regeneration models and automatic ones available. Automatic is a little better overall as it regenerates as soon as the defined water quantity is consumed (measured using flow meter). Keeping adequate salt in the brine mixing drum is still required for automatic softener.

I am using one for the last 1.5 years.
 
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