After spending the last few months in hard water areas Diane finally said to me a couple days ago,,,, I'm tired of the hard water. I want you get a water softner and you know how you always go overboard on what you get,,,, well don't change your ways on this LOL!!

Hi, FWIW, we spend a good deal of time in Las Vegas and the southwest generally, and are now on our second water softener. We first bought a small unit from Camping World, but our water is such that we needed to regeneralte it too often. We found a larger unit on E-Bay (for less $), from a guy in Arizona, which now lasts us about a month between regen. Uses three pounds of table salt. The issue for us became calcification of one of the water shut-off valves for our washer, which could not be turned off due to lime scale build up. Whichever you buy, it is a wise investment in hard water areas.

Richard

I'm new to RVing and would greatly appreciate hearing of your water softner research and your eventual purchase.  Please post again or email me directly.

Thanks,

Dave

I have a Mark 8000 which is a 8000 grain unit. In our summer location in CO where the water is 20 grains per gallon of hardness, I have to regenerate about every 30 days. In AZ where we spend the winter the hardness is 50 grains per gallon and I have to regenerate every 11 days.

The Mark 8000 costs $219 which includes shipping. You can see it HERE.

Mine takes one box of common table salt to regenerate.It would nice to have a higher grain capacity but I don't have room for one much bigger.

Flowpure does have a 10,000 grain unit.

I have it connected after my whole house water filter and both are fitted with quick disconnects so regenerating it is easy.