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From: Chuck Herrick
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:07
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:07
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Austin? Hard water? Are you sure you're not on your own well? If you're on Austin city water, then you really don't need a water softener. You might want a water treatment system that pulls calcium carbonate from the water to spare your water pipes, but frankly you're better off just replumbing every 30 years or so. ION wrote: > I'm afraid to ask this, but i live in austin and I too bought into a rainsoft > deal that I'm now second guessing bc of the price. > > I already knew I needed one because of our extremely hard water (could feel it > in my hair, etc), but I was looking at the Kinetico's at first. > > See what you think: > We're getting the Amazon-Q system (computerized version), what they said was 8 > yrs of soap, plus an RO unit, 350lbs of salt, two extra water spouts on each > side of the house that bypassing the softener plus an extra connection beside > the sink for the RO unit. All of this installed for $5500. > > After reading these newsgroups AFTERWARDS, it looks like I was screwed. But > maybe that's on par for Rainsoft??? They have to dig quite a bit and go under > two sidewalks... if that makes a difference. > > Any probs with these? Comparison to the Kinetico's?? > > What about this Cancellation Guarentee ... isthat worth what they say?? > > THX! > > ionate@hotmail.com
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From: Chuck Herrick <charles.herrick@cyberdigm.com>
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,alt.home.repair,misc.consumers,austin.forsale
Subject: Re: Rainsoft - paid $5500 for install
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:07:01 -0500
Organization: CyberDigm Systems
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