Mysterious substance in potable water
I had let my bathtub cold water run too long in my Mini Lite, ran out of water, and lost the prime on my pump. This happened on the last day driving back from my most recent trip, so I just stored the...
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Regarding water softeners the OP asked about.
We have spent all or part of ten winters in Bouse AZ - about 25 miles from Parker where you stayed. The water is extraordinarily hard. It measures higher than 50 grains per gallon. 50 gpg is as high as my test stripes will measure and 20 gpg is considered very hard according the test strip bottle.
We had issues with faucet, and shower screens clogging and about 5 or 6 years ago bought a Mark 8000 water softener from Flopur.
See FloPur Mark 8000.
Cost is $220 and includes shipping if bought from the site above. Regeneration is done with a box of common table salt.
It is similar to others like the "On-The-Go" water softener which is the one Camping World sells I believe.
Both are 8000 grain units which means they will last longer without requiring regeneration than those with lesser grain capacity. Some folks use "Water Sticks" but the biggest one of those I have seen is only 1500 grains.
In AZ where we spend most of the winter the water hardness is about 50 grains per gallon. That means that an 8000 grain unit will soften about 160 gallons before needing to be regenerated. Since we use about 13 gallons of water per day we have to regenerate every 12 days or so.
In our summer home in CO we have a water hardness of 20 GPG, there the softener will last about a month.
After using it the white grit (coming from the pipe walls I think) in the water tapered off until it is pretty well gone. The screens no longer clog.
We have spent all or part of ten winters in Bouse AZ - about 25 miles from Parker where you stayed. The water is extraordinarily hard. It measures higher than 50 grains per gallon. 50 gpg is as high as my test stripes will measure and 20 gpg is considered very hard according the test strip bottle.
We had issues with faucet, and shower screens clogging and about 5 or 6 years ago bought a Mark 8000 water softener from Flopur.
See FloPur Mark 8000.
Cost is $220 and includes shipping if bought from the site above. Regeneration is done with a box of common table salt.
It is similar to others like the "On-The-Go" water softener which is the one Camping World sells I believe.
Both are 8000 grain units which means they will last longer without requiring regeneration than those with lesser grain capacity. Some folks use "Water Sticks" but the biggest one of those I have seen is only 1500 grains.
In AZ where we spend most of the winter the water hardness is about 50 grains per gallon. That means that an 8000 grain unit will soften about 160 gallons before needing to be regenerated. Since we use about 13 gallons of water per day we have to regenerate every 12 days or so.
In our summer home in CO we have a water hardness of 20 GPG, there the softener will last about a month.
After using it the white grit (coming from the pipe walls I think) in the water tapered off until it is pretty well gone. The screens no longer clog.
