Last seen: Sep 15, 2025
@ianmk13 Yeap, we have had this type of water softener for 30 years plus and have always been able to drink the water it passes! 😉 Toodles.
@derek-m No. not good.😒 Toodles.
@derek-m As far as I am aware, the scheme is national not regional - but I could be wrong! Octoplus registration is a ‘one-off’ procedure which they e...
@old_scientist I’ll continue to flag them when I hear of sessions then, it sounds a though it might be useful to others. Regards, Toodles.
@transparent Don’t you think that that is a bridge too far? 😉 Toodles.
@johnmo We have a Kinetico Minimax softener and the literature tells me that the resin beads in the chambers remove calcium and magnesium and as part ...
At present, I’m compiling ‘data’ for an article to be published some time hence when I have a significant amount of history on the subject of whether ...
A late friend of ours used to be the chief engineer on the Queen Mary; he regularly checked the quality of the water taken on board for the boilers. H...
Particularly relevant to ‘newbies’ I should think but then even fully operating systems may benefit from their owners gaining more of an insight into ...
@jamespa Fairy Nuff James! I suppose the same task might be accomplished via the ManaClean ‘Pot’ but… I’m not nor ever have been a plumber! Toodles.
@jamespa I think a dosing pot is an inline receptacle that is used to add ‘additives’ to the water isn’t it? I suppose isolating valves are employed b...
@johnmo Indeed R32 is used in the Daikin heat pumps and thus, though I have a window, a door and drains, I could have the Daikin fitted; I could not h...
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