dealing with water hardness

[khunter]

I have an instantaneous water heater and understand that hard water will shorten their life. I am looking for an alternative to salt based water softeners and wonder if anyone has experience or knowledge of the catalytic based, no salt, no electricity softeners. Will these work and if so will they work with the Flash water heaters?

[re2ell]

Originally posted by khunter
I have an instantaneous water heater and understand that hard water will shorten their life. I am looking for an alternative to salt based water softeners and wonder if anyone has experience or knowledge of the catalytic based, no salt, no electricity softeners. Will these work and if so will they work with the Flash water heaters?

khunter,

you might want to check into a reverse osmosis type softening device. no electricty, no salt, and the most effective means of softening. GE has a pretty decent site on the topic of reverse osmosis.

reverse osmosis units are compatible with all water heaters.

http://www.gewater.com/library/tp/833_What_Is.jsp

[davidr]

Originally posted by khunter
I have an instantaneous water heater and understand that hard water will shorten their life. I am looking for an alternative to salt based water softeners and wonder if anyone has experience or knowledge of the catalytic based, no salt, no electricity softeners. Will these work and if so will they work with the Flash water heaters?

khunter you might want to check out http://www.fieldcontrols.com they have a water softner called the clearwave that attaches to the water pipe & involves no chemicals.

It does use electricity but only 24 volts AC.