<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>I've had one for over 25 years. Only serviced a couple of times. </div><div>They were very expensive when I bought it, and the price has doubled.</div><div>They are supposedly some of the most efficient on salt.</div><div>In our case, with our extremely hard water, we use maybe 40lb/week.</div><div>You do need to (or at least ought to) use the purer pelletized salt.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div>
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Subject: [SPAM] [RE-wrenches] Water softener question<br>
From: Allan Sindelar <<a href="mailto:allan@positiveenergysolar.com">allan@positiveenergysolar.com</a>><br>
Date: Mon, June 10, 2013 2:24 pm<br>
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Wrenches,<br> Has anyone had experience with the Kinetico line of non-electric water softeners?<br> <a target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.kinetico.com/water-softener/">http://www.kinetico.com/water-softener/</a><br> Thank you,<br> Allan<br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <style>
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