Honest Water Softeners

A softener swaps the calcium and magnesium that make water hard for sodium or potassium, by ion exchange in a resin tank. When the resin is used up the controller regenerates it with brine from the salt tank. Every Honest Water series regenerates on demand, from a meter that counts the water you actually used, rather than on a timer that runs whether you were home or not.

The difference between the series is in the valve, the controller and how much iron they will tolerate. The Premium and both Ultimate models use as little as 2.5 pounds of salt and 17 gallons of water per regeneration, which the manufacturer rates at 80 percent less salt than a traditional softener. The Ultimate Superior 50K and Ultimate Premium 50K regenerate only the part of the resin bed that is exhausted and handle up to 10 ppm of clear-water iron; the black-tank Superior carries a 12-year unlimited warranty and the chrome-tank Premium 20 years unlimited. The Superior handles up to 5 ppm with a turbulator. The Chlor-A-Soft adds chlorine and chemical removal for municipal supply.

We pick the series from your hardness, your iron and your household. On town water that starts with your town's published number and a reading at install. On a well, it starts with a full well test. Hardness sets the capacity, iron sets the series, and your household sets the tank size. If your iron is above what a softener should see, an iron filter goes ahead of it. Every series is listed with its installed price on our water softener prices page.

We read your hardness before we install and again after, so you see the difference. Same kitchen tap, two numbers. The after reading tells you it works and tells us the softener is programmed right.