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Originally Posted by Maggy

I prefer hard water. Calcium is good for you.

There isn't a dietary relevant volume of Ca or Mg in tap water. So our softener which swaps out these for sodium isn't going to require us to increase our milk or vege consumption. There is some evidence that some may need to watch the increased sodium level and you can have a bypassed tap for drinking (and outside). When we get our kitchen redone we will be looking at a hardwater feed to the new boiler that can't take softened water in the heating circuit.


Soft water is much nicer. I don't have to descale things especially the trap buried in the shower.