Review Details

Whole House Package: Water Softener 32,000 Grain + Upflow Carbon Filtration + Drinking Water RO System

Product Review (submitted on October 17, 2018):

So glad I spent the time to read the online reviews and comparisons, as the Fleck is the bomb! The 5600sxt replaced a 22 year old Culligan Mark 100 that served us well, but had reached the point that it wasn't worth fixing anymore. I had the Culligan Man replace the gaskets/seals a couple years ago, which cost a couple hundred bucks for a couple 25 cent gaskets! Lesson learned. Thought about another Culligan, but for $600 and a couple $18 Shark Bite 24" fittings from HD(1" over existing copper pipe-which I cut with an inexpensive pipe cutting tool-1" threaded-DON'T USE TEFLON TAPE), a $2 nylon 5/8" to 5/8" threaded (one end) fitting(to attach to the old drain hose-hoseclamped on) we saved thousands! Well worth the time spent researching. I did have to buy an 800# two wheel dolly to get the unit down the stairs into my basement, but it was needed to get the much smaller Culligan softener out. Installation took under an hour including programming, and we've had soft water for over a month, and have only added one extra bag of salt so far. At over 2500 gallons of conditioned water between regenerations, we've never used it up (and it went to default setting of 2 weeks-our area of MN has a hardness of 16-17), and we have a 17 year old daughter that sometimes takes two long showers, and two loads of clothes to be washed each day! Save your money, do it yourself, and install this top rated water softener. It is probably oversized for our family of four, but I would rather have (nearly) unlimited soft water with a unit that regenerates every two weeks than one that's old and noisy, and goes off every other night!