What can I buy to filter the salt from a water softner out of my drinking water (kitchen tap)? ?
I have hard water so I bought a water softner which puts salt in the water that comes out of all the faucets, showers, etc in my house. I spend lots of money buying bottles of water because I can’t drink the water that comes out of my sink because it tastes weird (there’s lots of sodium in it). A Pur or Brita water filter (while good at taking lots of other sediments and stuvff out) still leaves the salt in water and it still tastes weird. So is there anything that specifically takes the salt back out that my water softener puts into my tap water?
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absolutely helvelin
that installation does not comply with the Water Regs, any problems with the plumber ie they dont want to come back or say it will be a while, call the local water company to send an inspector to look at it
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the unit could have a problem with it but there still has to be a drinking water tap which bypasses the softener.
the salt used displaces the absorbed calcium and magnesium on the resin. the water which is produced after hardness removal then contains extra sodium. this can be a problem for people on restricted salt diets re high blood pressure, heart attacks. thats why you have a separate drinking water tap so you have the natural water salts but not the sodium
get a reverse osmosis system for your kitchen tap
it will filter out all the salt giving you bottle like water for WAY cheaper
they sell then at Lowe’s and home depot or what ever home improvement place is near you
Get the plumber back to do the job properly!!!!!! you have to leave one tap on the mains for drinking water. Does he/she even know what they were doing?
the water softener is not working properly , you should never taste sodium , salt or anything else in the water , the salt is used to cleanse the resins in the softener, your drinking water doesn’t not come in contact With salt brine except during regeneration of the unit which is usually set to perform regeneration late at might IE 2 am . get the unit serviced or put it into bypass until someone corrects the problem .
salt is used to clean the media filter in the softener, then rinsed from system. that time is called regeneration, which usually happens in the early morning hours while you sleep. You should not taste salt at all, and only a very small amount should be in in your water , not enough to taste. Your system needs to rinse longer, or something is wrong with it. Get whoever installed it for you ,back to your house, and tell them to correct the problem.