Has anyone had a (non-salt) whole house water filter fitted.

[Wallywobbles]

Does anyone have a system, and if so how do you rate it. The company has good reviews but not masses of them and none for this particular system.

www.amazon.co.uk/AquaHouse-Commercial-Water-Alternative-Prevention/dp/B00OV218EU/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=WFM-835&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1594469508&sr=8-2

We've been looking at having one of these fitted. We have a fairly big house with a 4 showers and one bath. We were thinking that it might last longer than 5 years as our water usage is not at commercial levels.
But I was initially looking at the XL system rather than commercial - but if everyone washes at the same time we would be using more than the max I think.

I've spoken to the guy and seems absolutely straight up.

Kind of wondering if @Pigletjohn has an opinion on the subject, please.

I like the ion-exchange softeners that regenerate using salt.

The device in your link is not a softener.

£500 for a device that doesn't actually work is rather a lot.

Thanks @PigletJohn. Rather disappointing though! We just have rather a lot of limescale, and I wanted to be able to drink from the tap and not have it taste weird from a softener, and give the appliances a helping hand.

So I take it that's a definite "no" from you?

You can get drinking-water filter cartridges, these work in a different way. Usually plumbed into a small drinking-water tap. The water is brighter and tastes better. Cartridges are widely sold in places that supply bars and pubs, or online. AFAIK Brita filter jugs do the same thing.

For everything else, an ion-exchange softener is great. Softer laundry, less soap and detergent, better skin and hair, clean mirrors, smoother shaves...

Once you've had one you won't want to be without it.

We have a water softener that uses salt for the whole house. We have a separate tap with filter which we use for our drinking water, we have to replace the cartridge every few months, it improves the taste of the water and we are all used to it now and don't have any problems with the taste.

Yeah we had the same, salt water softener for the house and a filtered drinking tap in the kitchen. No more lime scale, had a black kitchen sink 😍

Moved to a soft water area after that!

it also makes much better tea.

@PigletJohn

it also makes much better tea.

It does, and we know when the salt needs refilling because the tea gets a scum on top

Well bollocks. That is so not what I wanted to hear. I so hate it when DH is right.