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Posted 11 January 2022
Kinetico Kube 1 Non-Electric Water Softener - For Households with up to 2 Bathrooms £539.98 Members Only @ Costco
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The Kube 1 Water Softener is the best introductory water softener on the market that’s great value, easy to install and economical to run. The non-electric design is powered by the natural flow of the water and provides beautiful soft water for you and your home so you can banish limescale forever. The compact design means it fits neatly under your kitchen sink and is suitable for households with up to 2 bathrooms. The only maintenance your softener requires is to replace the tablet salt.
With soft water you’ll save time cleaning and discover shiny taps, free-flowing showers and clear shower screens. Soft water running through your home will also increase the life of your appliances such as your dishwasher, washing machine and boiler and you’ll save money too. You can ditch the spray-on limescale removers, use less detergents, bath foams and toiletries.
Operating using only the power of moving water, this Kube 1 Water Softener offers reliability and easier installation. It requires no power cables or electronic components, which means it won't corrode over time and you'll have no electricity costs and includes a 15mm fitting kit making installation easy.
Features:
Suitable for homes with up to 2 bathrooms
Can fit neatly under your sink cupboard
WRAS approved
High Performance and Reliable: Non-electric patented valve, counter-current regeneration technology and high capacity fine mesh resin engineered to deliver high flow rates of soft water typically used by today’s demanding households
Powerful: The ion exchange process used is the most effective method to totally remove calcium and magnesium from hard water
Compact and Convenient: Fits neatly into a standard 600mm kitchen cupboard. Designed as a modern, contemporary
household appliance with a transparent blue viewing window at the front of the softener allows you to check
the salt levels, making it easier to see when your salt needs refilling. It also has the added benefit of running on either block salt and tablet salt
Easy to Install: Does not require connection to mains power supply making installation quicker and easier
Energy Efficient: Accurately meters the water to determine the exact moment when the tank needs to regenerate, thus great efficiency with low water and salt consumption. Non-electric valve means greater sustainability, no electricity costs, better for the environment and saves you money
Quiet Drive: Precision engineered valve to operate quietly for minimum disturbance and noise level
Max. Hardness: 525 mg/L
Salt Usage Per Regeneration: 0.27kg
Water Usage Per Regeneration: 25L
Regeneration Time: 12 minutes
Service Flow Rate: 30L per minute at 1 bar pressure, 40L per minute at 2 bar pressure
Connection: 3/4" BSP Male
Includes: 15mm WRAS approved drain and hose kit suitable for 32mm and 40mm waste pipe
Operating Temperature: Min. 2°C to 23°C max
Min. Pressure: 1.5 bar
Max. Pressure: 8 Bar
Recommended PRV fitted if above 6 bar
Weight: 15.5kg
Dimensions: H 49.2 x W 23.5 x D 42.5 cm
Warranty: 2 years manufacturer's warranty
With soft water you’ll save time cleaning and discover shiny taps, free-flowing showers and clear shower screens. Soft water running through your home will also increase the life of your appliances such as your dishwasher, washing machine and boiler and you’ll save money too. You can ditch the spray-on limescale removers, use less detergents, bath foams and toiletries.
Operating using only the power of moving water, this Kube 1 Water Softener offers reliability and easier installation. It requires no power cables or electronic components, which means it won't corrode over time and you'll have no electricity costs and includes a 15mm fitting kit making installation easy.
Features:
Suitable for homes with up to 2 bathrooms
Can fit neatly under your sink cupboard
WRAS approved
High Performance and Reliable: Non-electric patented valve, counter-current regeneration technology and high capacity fine mesh resin engineered to deliver high flow rates of soft water typically used by today’s demanding households
Powerful: The ion exchange process used is the most effective method to totally remove calcium and magnesium from hard water
Compact and Convenient: Fits neatly into a standard 600mm kitchen cupboard. Designed as a modern, contemporary
household appliance with a transparent blue viewing window at the front of the softener allows you to check
the salt levels, making it easier to see when your salt needs refilling. It also has the added benefit of running on either block salt and tablet salt
Easy to Install: Does not require connection to mains power supply making installation quicker and easier
Energy Efficient: Accurately meters the water to determine the exact moment when the tank needs to regenerate, thus great efficiency with low water and salt consumption. Non-electric valve means greater sustainability, no electricity costs, better for the environment and saves you money
Quiet Drive: Precision engineered valve to operate quietly for minimum disturbance and noise level
Max. Hardness: 525 mg/L
Salt Usage Per Regeneration: 0.27kg
Water Usage Per Regeneration: 25L
Regeneration Time: 12 minutes
Service Flow Rate: 30L per minute at 1 bar pressure, 40L per minute at 2 bar pressure
Connection: 3/4" BSP Male
Includes: 15mm WRAS approved drain and hose kit suitable for 32mm and 40mm waste pipe
Operating Temperature: Min. 2°C to 23°C max
Min. Pressure: 1.5 bar
Max. Pressure: 8 Bar
Recommended PRV fitted if above 6 bar
Weight: 15.5kg
Dimensions: H 49.2 x W 23.5 x D 42.5 cm
Warranty: 2 years manufacturer's warranty
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103 Comments
sorted byI left the Brita tap filter in there...ripped out the consumer p1000 filter and installed a purity C150 finest professional filter on a new zero bypass filter head. Both run off the original 3/8in fittings so it was a direct swap. As I understand the C finest range is largely used in cafes and commercial settings (hence the price difference!).
These new filters also run off a flowmeter and I am measuring how much water runs through the filter. Based on the water hardness in my area I expect to get about 1000l from a c150 cartridge.
If that doesn't do the job I will ditch Brita all together and install a BWT bestmax filter which cafe owners swear by.
I followed the guide here - talkcoffee.com.au/edu…on/
FYI just like the UK, Australia has both soft and hard water areas, though typically the main Sydney/Melbourne metro areas are soft whereas say London here is hard water.
My boiler is stainless so C150 Finest it was...If you dont have the coffee machine probably either of the C150 range would be fine. Larger capacity filters are fine, but watch out on dimensions and how much space you have under the sink!
This is not filtered. There is a difference
customercare.costco.co.uk/app…jE=
Also no matter what these big companies tell you, in some cases they even say warranty isn't covered, do not run your water softener to kitchen tap and then connect it to another drinking water filter , you will go through way too much drinking filters as it's constantly trying to filter out salt you literally added in ( counter productive) and your water will taste slightly salty.
I would say that the £120 off discount comes round occasionally (last time in September 2021) if you aren't in a rush (edited)
Absolutely fine (unless you’re under strict instructions from your GP to be on a sodium reduced diet). Had my water softener installed for about 4 years now and use the water in the kettle and for cooking. Never suffered any side effects whatsoever, & never any concerns from my GP over my health or blood pressure. Unless you’re drinking copious amounts of water (many litres a day) containing sodium this will cause no problems at all. This is the same as people who think eating lots of tuna will dose you up with lots of mercury!
Here’s a link that should help if you’re concerned
harveywatersofteners.co.uk/faq…nk/ (edited)
No worries mate. Quite often instals are near to kitchen sinks / adjacent cupboard as they are often where the mains water supply comes in. Mine is anyway. Consequently you can ‘tap in’ to a waste pipe under the sink very easily. I used flexible plastic tubing, cut a hole virtually the same diameter in the waste pipe (stuck tube in by a few mm) and used upvc cement/glue to make firm adhesion. Worked perfectly for the past 4 years.
Good luck bud - easier than you’d think.
Lack of stock shouldn’t get in the way of a good deal!
Thank you. Marvellous, gives me a few products to research there
I live in the South East / Hard water area.
This wasn't a common thing about 14 years ago when we did renovations.
But now are becoming more popular.
People I have asked seem to love them.
I haven't tested them myself.
Yes, most people north of Watford don't know what all the fuss is about hard water. i was one of them until i moved to my current address and experienced the issue of hard water first hand.
I know this is likely a mixed experience thing, but we had one of these installed, through Costco/kinetico when it was on offer a couple of years ago. We found the installer was excellent, we'd paid for a filter tap to be fitted as well but when he showed up, it wouldn't work with our sink. The guy went out of his way to get a different tap fitting from a local shop to sort it.
We're in Hampshire after moving from Edinburgh and echo lots of other experiences. The softener has significantly reduced limescale issues, makes washing so much easier and doesn't cost much to run (we buy bags of softener tablets from Costco and they last months for about £5).
Big up to the NW London crew!
I have a water softener and I’m wondering what your comment about ‘trying to filter out salt you literally added in’ means?
You do realise that water softeners don’t add salt to water don’t you?
Sodium, technically not salt i should have said. Which is does add to the water, and harder the water the higher the sodium content added, and has that ionic almost chlorine like taste too. Which again needs to be filtered by the drinking water tap if one is installed. Hence those running softened water should put the water through reverse osmosis system to remove it then through their drinking filter. Or better yet skip that whole process are run hard water through a drinking filter only.
I grew up in Harrow Weald lol On your link, that photo of the hard water tap filter cartridge under the sink is exactly where ours is. We were told we have to change ours roughly yearly but it is dependant on how often we use the hardwater tap. It doesn't get used that much really. The cartridge is just a twist anticlockwise to remove affair so it is easy to change. We still haven't changed ours yet - waiting for the missus to complain about the water tasting rank which will be my indicator
By the way - there is a place on Honeypot Lane called ElecMec that does cheaper than normal Kinetico blocks. I haven't purchased from them just yet as I have yet to determine if the blocks fit on my harveys machine as mentioned. (edited)
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Too much chalk makes the water hard. It scales your dishwasher, washing machine and kettle etc very quickly. It also means that you get a scum on top of your bath water. Washing dishes or hair is so much easier with soft water. A friend moved from hard to soft areas, and for the first week of hair washing had to spend twice as long rinsing her hair because she was still using the same amount of shampoo as before (edited)
Kube 2 is a good price - i paid over £1k for my kinetico
it's a very simple process i know some who have done it themselves. it really depends on the pipe configuration in your house and where you want it to go e.g. they say it is safe to drink but i am not convinced so the main kitchen tap is unsalted. it should be easy enough for a competent plumber to figure out as it just needs to be connected to the main cold feed into the house with a branch off if you want your main kitchen tap and/or garden tap to remain unsalted (i wouldn't recommend watering the garden with salted water). TBH i would get your own plumber if you used Costco ones chances are if it is not straight forward they will want to charge more especially if they have to put in extra pipes. These days with push fit plastic pipes it should not be a difficult job for a plumber.
I just paid about 200quid to rip out the thermostatic in-wall shower valve, unfortunately the model valve had been discontinued by the manufacturer and few stock the spare from 5years ago. The alternative was to rip tiles out and replace the entire in wall fitting.
The old valve is now sitting in a bucket of vinegarnto try and descale and bring it back to life.
Have a few more appliances die like this and a water softener pays for itself.
Yeah I wouldn't drink it either. I installed a specific drinking water filter that doubles up as the water source for the espresso machine. That thing gets nothing but soft water...it means I can get off filling it with Tesco Ashbeck and all the associated plastic waste.
Haven't bothered with a water softener but seriously considering it seeing all the plumbing issues it's causing...
Would you mind expanding on the special drink water filter at all, please? I have a Brita tap filter but it’s pretty poor overall, it certainly doesn’t do anything for limescale at least.
I live in Reading and have one of the hardest waters in uk. Its a nightmare.
As a perquisite for a detailing my cars, I tested our water using professional testing kit and it was about 450 pppm. Which is mega high. For the car I use di filter with a mega expensive di resin,now I get 0 pppm. I use this water for the final rinse so I don't need to hand dry the cars, so damage on this phase and saves me alot of time.
Very tempted by the larger one. I looked into this a year ago. The biggest water softener companies in uk are kinetico and Harveys. Harvey's quoted £1800, I didn't bother, crazy price so what is a simple device taut doesn't cost much to produce.
Never understood why these items are so expensive.
Anyway I'd never use it to filter drinking water. Even if it tasted fine, filtered water in tea is pretty rank. (edited)
I had a softner installed in 2020 by Harveys at a cost of £1.8k - expensive I know but I had a lot of salt thrown in too. The newer (current) Harveys machines use curved salt blocks so you can't use generic blocks like those from Kinetico so you're locked into Harveys for salt. We also had a hard water tap fitted in for free just incase we didn't like drinking soft - I love it but the missus likes hard...
I can't comment on OP's Kinetico (they are very well known) but getting a softener has been awesome for us for reasons that are already mentioned in this thread by TristanDeCoonha. I highly recommend them for Londoners if you can afford it.
The only annoyance is purchasing salt blocks. I am not 100% sure yet if Kinetico blocks can go into Harveys EV4 machines - so I purchase directly from Harveys, which is a tad expensive £42 for 6x bags of 2 blocks.
Also like to add - there is a colossal difference between softened water and 'filtered' lol. (edited)
This is such a fantastic community.
Saved me doing so many mistakes or helped me consider options, etc.
Kudos everyone