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I need to see if we can get cold water from the mains and if it is viable with the Quooker Cube (which has a filter). I'll have to ask Wrekin Water when they come out next week and see what they suggest.

If we do have a Kinetico we would keep the Quooker for a while and the associated Cube which also has a water filter for cold water. It would therefore filter the water that has already been softened. I do drink a lot of water so I'm a bit worried if it's particularly bad to drink softened water.

I'm definitely going to look into the non electric ones, it's an absolute pain being an all electric house as we have frequent power cuts and I'm not fussed on smart functions, our wifi signal is crap even with a mesh system and seems to be even worse since Openreach insisted on upgrading to digital.. if our phone signal was any good I'd do away with any form of router but it isn't and that's a whole new issue.

I thought something like this would be a whole house system? https://wrekinwatertreatment.co.uk/products/kinetico-supersoft-twin-tank-non-electric-water-softener

We have booked with Wrekin Water who are going to come out as they are only down the road, test our water, do a home survey, bring the different bits of kit and go through differences of a softener and conditioner and go from there.... I see they do the kinetico which I've seen on here...

I have found this local company that seem to offer a range of options, salt based and others. I'll message them but they may be able to give some ideas. https://wrekinwatertreatment.co.uk/collections/salt-free-water-softeners I found the halcyan water thread...waaaay over my head!

@Nickfromwales have you heard of these? Just wondering as an alternative to one thats electric or meeds filling up with salts etc how good they are? https://www.stuart-turner.co.uk/product/stuart-water-conditioner-c3-22-44617 Or similar https://halcyanwater.com/ I just don't know where it would be fitted if we wanted it to do our whole house, I'm not sure where our water comes in as I think we have two points (kitchen and utility)...

Because he was sh!t and in fairness we didn't realise it was going to be so much of an issue and our water quality in terms of hardness has got much worse. Severn Trent have been to the neighbourhood a few times testing it

I don't know enough about whole home water softeners but we suffer terribly. We are consistently descaling the coffee machine and regularly cleaning washing machines etc and citric acid in the loos.

Thanks, I'll look into this as an option rather than the Quooker limescale attachment. Unfortunately it's not just the Limescale, the Quooker had had so many problems (from the pull out hose on the tap leaking to the boiler breaking). Last time we had them out for a service they did lots of other things that apparently needing doing but without asking us telling us of any additional costs and then presented a bill for over £500, needless to say we complained and did not have to pay). It seems some other taps have the water filter/limescale filter on them already which you can just replace every 12 months. I guess we need to make a decision on whether to keep the Quooker or ditch it in favour of a different tap/seperate limescale filter.

Do you have a link for this? Do you mean InSinkErator? https://kitchensinksandtaps.co.uk/h3300-brushed-steel-boiling-hot-water-tap-only

Ahhh so its the same tap? I'll get a price from Howdens too and see if its any different. Can you send me the link for it I can't seem to find it! Thanks

So, we had a Quooker tap along with the cube that came with our kitchen. It's been quite problematic to be honest and expensive though Quooker have been out a few times FOC and sorted it. At the last visit this week they recommended a scale control add on thing at a special offer for £100. Now we have lots of scale issues and the boiling water tank has scaled up badly but if we add this on their replacement cartridges are £90 which need doing 12 to 18 months. The Cube we had needs frequent filter changes at £80 a time too and we drink a lot of filtered water. All the filters seem bespoke and not able to get elsewhere (particularly the Cube which is an older one) and then the co2 cannisters although we have about a dozen of these still unused so hopefully don't need to buy any for a while. I'm so tempted to do away with the whole thing and sell it and get a cheaper replacement where we can get generic filters/scale control filters. We dont really drink fizzy water and whilst I do really like the boiling water tap and filtered water, the filtered water doesn't need to be ice cold, just drinkable! I'm therefore looking at alternatives that have boiling water, filtered water (not necessarily ice cold, tap temp is fine) and something to control the scale as we live in a very hard water area (or at least something that is easy to maintain, clean tank etc. Does anyone have any suggestions? This one has popped up (it also offers free installation too, but this isn’t necessarily a deciding factor). https://fahrenuk.com/4-in-1-boiling-water-taps/celsius-brushed-nickel-swan-neck-4-in-1-boiling-water-tap/ Thanks

Did this late last night with the insulation and today everything's back to normal! Phew.... still going to get it serviced. Think it's around £150 plus vat, but will ring round a few places first.

Thanks I'll do this today with the insulation. We will get it serviced this week anyway, probably long overdue. Meanwhile the cupboard is now empty of mops, buckets and other crap!