Helpful Hint: When you shop for a softener don't buy the big box brand or chain store softeners. The price can be enticing ($500 to $800) plus
tax. Now add to that the average store install (between $300 to $500). They all offer one-piece, undersized, downflow, plastic softeners (all of that is
not good). They often end up in the garbage in a short time and you have to start over. For that kind of money you could buy the real deal. A
durable, bigger, efficient (runs a lot less... saving a lot more money) softener with a company to stand behind it. The "built-to-last" Seahorse.