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Nicole Roell
Aug 12, 2026
Just had my new water softener installed. I appreciated the good communication leading up to my appointment and up front pricing. Elliot was prompt and professional and walked me through everything when he was done, so I know what to expect. Thank you!!
Edit: Unfortunately, I have to edit my original review. Everything seemed great initially. I scrubbed and descaled everything that had build up on it, including pretty much all of my dishwasher, dishes, showers, sinks, etc. but within a few weeks, I noticed that my water was extremely hard again, and it tested at 21 grains, which means that no softening was happening. I’d been out of town for a good portion of time moving kids into colleges, or I would have noticed sooner. Upon discovering that my softener was doing nothing, I called and made an appt for service. There was no apology or explanation. He just said that sometimes there can be some “gunking up” after a new unit is installed, so i took the soonest appt for a week and half later, which felt really long, but I was also having a cold water line installed at the same time, so I just figured that’s why it took so long.
On the day of them servicing my unit, sept 3, it had been a over a month since I signed my contract and I still didn’t have soft water…not to mention that I knew I would have to descale everything again. However, I was so happy to finally be done with hard water, that I didn’t even care that much that the unit was originally set up wrong, and “gunking up” wasn’t the problem.
Fast forward to today, and I noticed, again, that my water felt a little hard. I tested it at multiple faucets and indeed, it was 8 grains of hardness for cold and 4-5 for hot. After running a regen cycle, the cold tested at 0-1 as it should. This means that, again, the system was calibrated incorrectly.
After calling, it will be another 10 days before someone can come out. Again, it was a courteous conversation, but it still didn’t contain an apology…just an “I understand how you feel” answer to my lament about having to wait so long and just wanting soft water.
I’m frustrated because I dealt with this several times with our old culligan dual tank system, and I replaced a 10 year old unit that was fixable with a new unit from water doctors because I was tired of the inconsistency and was assured that this would not happen with the new dual tank unit that I purchased.
I just want my new $5000 water softener to work. It has one job! Is that so hard? (Pun intended)