Do you know anything about water softeners?

[Confused10101]

If so could you please educate me? We live in a hard water area a d today fitted our kitchen Tao with a water softener.. they are the balls which go under the sink unit into a small ‘barrel’

Sorry I have no clue how this works or the correct terminology hence my “description”

What I want to know is is this safe from a health perspective? I presume our drinking water will now have added salt and what ever else is in these balls?

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Anyone?

Usually you fit the water softener so that it treats all the water coming into your house, except the water from one tap. Then you use that untreated tap for drinking water.

Otherwise yes, it will have unhealthy levels of salt. But not sure exactly what you have fitted, it might be different.

Things like that won’t usually soften the water, will only treat the one tap it’s connected to. If you wanted to soften the whole house you would normally need a system plumbed in to treat the whole house. They have a salt compartment that draws salt in and treats the water, but would let very very minimal amounts of sodium into the water

Yes, it will have a higher amount of sodium. We were advised not to connect our water softener to the kitchen tap for this reason. I dont think its a problem unless you have certain health issues which require a low sodium diet though

Ours is connected so that it doesn't affect the kitchen tap but does affect everything else. This is partly because at the time it was fitted DS2 was bottle fed and we were advised not to use softened water for his bottles. A decade on and DS2 is no longer bottle fed (!) but the kettle is always scaled up and the granite around the sink is marked. This is partly due to my slatternly ways but could have been avoided if we'd connected the whole system to the softener and all just ingested a bit more sodium.

This is the product and it’s installed only under the kitchen sink

Does this add extra salt into the drinking water?

My husband says it’s connected to the hot water snd not the cold tap but he has a way of dismissing my questions without giving loads of details at times…some of which have been wrong

Anyone?

A traditional softener uses salt to rinse the resin that softens the water, salt is not added to the water and it is safe to consume except for young babies or those with severe kidney problems.
What you have is a different kind of softener which uses polyphosphate balls instead of resin. Can’t see an issue @ @Confused10101