[Dmatz]

In my 2 Prevost I had water softener salt systems. They were great as we never had water spots on the glass showers or the dishes ect. Newell does not do this currently. How has this issue been handled as the water quality changes from location to location?

Has any added a RO system for pure water? This is also a item that we had previously?

[encantotom]

i am surprised they wont do a water softener.

tom

[rheavn]

My coach had a Newell installed RO system when I bought it.

[hagcam]

I bought a water softener off of eBay, one that was sold as a portable rv water softener. It looks like a fibreglass scuba tank. I run campground water through a particulate filter, home depot plastic filter with replaceable filters, and then through the softener. I always use the water from my tank. If I have to wash the bus I use the same arrangement to wash and rinse the bus.
The softener was a couple hundred dollars, rejuvenates with a couple pounds of table salt.
I am very happy with this arrangement.

[Ozarkguy]

One thing you can do for the glass shower is give it a good treatment of Rain-X before use. I used this on my glass showers in Scottsdale with my well water. About every 6 mo. Seemed to do the trick. No spots.

[rheavn]

Doug,
I should have added that the build sheet showed that Newell installed the unit that was provided by the customer. If it is something you want I would think your salesman can make it happen.

[Ozarkguy]

This one has good
Reviews. http://www.flowpur.com/Merchant2/merchan..._Code=RVWS

[lbrachfe]

I have seen several Newells with r/o tubes installed. It's not difficult once you decide on the space for it. Many available can hang from the floor in a bay and take up no storage room.

[ccjohnson]

Our '92 has a fiberglass tank looking softener. I thought it was a filter since we just back flush it every couple of months. But Newell said it is a softener. The guy they bought them from went out of business and/or died so there are no replacements or parts available. So far it seems to be working great. When it fails we will get some kind of system to replace it.

[arcticdude]

Watts Premier has some good options in compact RO systems. I put one in the old house and she liked it so well, I had to put one in the new house. The old house was on city water, but the water had extremely high salt content. All her flower pots turned white after a short time. With the RO system, no more white pots. The new house has a well, so I put a booster system on it. It also performs very well.

While slightly off topic, if somebody is looking for a household softener, I will strongly recommend one by Kinetico. The new house had one of these in it, but it had been let go. The system is an on demand system, recharging only after a given (and adjustable) amount of water has been used. Since there's not a power outlet in the closet where the softener is and it would have required a fair amount of work to put one there, I opted to replace with a new Kinetico system. They are not cheap!! At least up front, that is. We liked it well enough that when the softener at the farm house started giving us fits, I bought the same Kinetico system from my local dealer and took it to the farm and installed it there. My MIL lives on the farm still. Her hair dresser commented within a month about how well her hair was doing and the only change was the softener.

I mentioned the higher up front costs earlier. The systems were about $2800 each. A replacement timered system, like what was there, was priced for the farm at just under $1000. We hadn't been using anywhere near as much salt as what Granny had been using. So I figured it would take about 5 years, but I could pay for the system with the reduced salt usage. Boy was I wrong!! We used to bring her 8-10 bags every other month. I bought 10 bags 2 years ago and still have 6 bags left. So while it will pay for itself in about 5 years; there's that much less hassle to deal with and that much less salt being dumped out as it timer regenerated. The other very interesting thing that occured was about a month after install, the water coming into the house started showing lots of sediment in it. I traced it back to the pipes from the softener to and into the house. They had so much stuff collected in them, that once the salt balance got corrected, they dumped it all. Fairly quickly the water cleared and has been great since.