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Water softener solution – for a single washing machine (not calgon/tablets).
Are there any ‘bolt-on’ water softeners/devices (just for the washing machine), that forum members could recommend.
I don’t have the budget for an entire house softener. But would like to have one for my (soon to arrive) washing machine.
Here one variant of a solution:
Asking for recommendations on this and any alternatives,
Cheers,
Disp
I’m sure I did see something like that but I can’t recall where or who did it though I’d not be surprised if it was killed off as there’s liable to be very little call for such a thing. And, I suspect not a cheap thing either.
K.
The water is quite hard here, about 360 mg/l (ppm). I use anhydrous citric acid to descale my washing machine once a year, which seems to work well enough, although I do have a bit of limescale in the folds of the seal. It is 16 years old though, and I didn’t descale it for the first few years, until it started causing elements to fail and blocking and jamming the coin trap! Not having a softener does of course mean I need to use a lot more detergent powder.
I have seen advice that softened water may promote corrosion of aluminium spiders, in fact a friend was told that too, when his 2 year old machine failed, but I’m not sure if that’s correct. The main causes I’m aware of are bacterial related.
You can get manual water softeners, which sort of resemble a fire extinguisher and are usually used with warewashers, but a washing machine would presumably use a great deal more water, so not sure you’d get a worthwhile number of cycles out of a modest sized one, between needing a manual recharge with salt and a flush.
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