Can we back up just a bit...
What is it that you are trying to filter out?

Just so you know, pressure drop isn't a great indicator of filter life other than a particulate filter.

The best supplier I've found of Big Blue housings and filters is Serv a pure

I actually had a typo there as well!

I'm building a new house. We have hard water in our area. The city water is well water. The hardness is not that high but I have talked to new homeowners and they are having issues. They put in another well by our development and the hardness may be higher from that source. I will be getting a sample from a house two doors down from mine shortly to both test on my own and take to a lab.

We are going to be in this house for a very long time so I'm trying to get as much done up front to cover things and give us maximum flexibility.

I'm putting in 3 big blues and then an oversized water softener.

While I'm only planning on having a sediment filter in the first housing, I want to treat each housing like I might put anything in it.

I'm putting in pressure gauges at each stage and I'm making the first one clear as that is the main one that would benefit from visual inspection.

The incoming line is 1" and I'm going to keep everything 1" through the entire processing system.

The water softener I'm looking at is a Fleck 9000, between 40k and 60k grains. I'm not sure on the resin.

I'm interested in the difference between the sxt and the xt versions of the valve.

I have a utility sink just a few feet to the right of where all this is going in and I plan on putting in a T between the wall and the trap in the drain, putting in a trap and then a riser of a foot or so that I can put in the drain for the water softener.


I would love it if one of these valve units had remote connectivity, but not at all a big thing.


That's it in a nutshell.


Thanks!