Vera you are so lucky with the containers! Here every once in a while I am at Lowes or Wal mart at the right time and get a few. Not even close enough for what I really need. Just spend over 100 Dollars yesterday for pots so I can re pot some brugs. Some tropical trees. Hell I do not know WHY I am growing them. WHERE am I going to put them in the winter? I bought this HUGE Box of MG fertilzer. That has these sprayer refill packets in there. I think there should be around 10 of those in the box. Before that I bought little boxes and I could have sworn too that the numbers on those were different. I guess it is for all different needs folks have. My neighbor ask me yesterday what that plant was that is growing wild in the middle of the tilled area I want to make another flowerbed. It is a Datura inoxia. I told her. She said, you know, when you gave the plants last year to my house for my mom to enjoy, they must have reseeded lol. She has them growing in the one bed and wants to have it more in the middle. I told here I got some left in a small nursery pot from winter sowing and will plant it for her when she goes on vacation today for a week. I told myself that no more indoor sowing with Dats. The germinate a lot better direct sown and also grow into healthier plants. From what I have been watching so far. Can not wait till you share pictures of your beauties that make you happy Lucy

I found a site that said they started with 15 pounds of worms and within 2 years, they estimate they have several BILLION worms, and have outgrown a 3000 square foot breeder house. I find that totally amazing! And here I am, with my pitiful 2 bins after 4-5 months. Here is a link that might be useful: Magic Wiggler Worm Ranch

kitchendetective - afaik, Esse range cookers are not available in Canada, sadly. One *could* technically import one oneself, however the inspections, etc, would make it a fairly daft enterprise. I got an instant friendly response from the good people at Lacanche, which bodes well! I'll do some more homework, and post separately on them if/when I have any questions. I also got an instant and really helpful response from Aga, to be fair, however it's their crumby service record in N America that pretty much makes them a non-starter for us. There are several Aga 6-4s still available, by the way, dotted around the continent. Didn't take me long to find them, so if anyone out there still wants one, keep looking! If we had a good service tech close by, we'd be getting one, I think.

The Clack mystery is solved. I looked at the URL you edited into your first post and that is not a Clack valve. The URL is old and probably reused from when they did sell Clack. It is a Fleck 6700XTR control valve and that seller has named that softener a CS1-EE where a Clack control valve would be a WS1-EE. Nevertheless, the Fleck 6700 is not my favorite valve and they don't offer a gravel underbed which is a good thing to have. You don't need SST60 resin with only .3ppm iron but we still don't know which iron you have so we don't know whether a softener can treat it. You NEVER want to go 12 days between regenerations when you have iron and you should be doing some minimal resin cleaning maintenance. There are better sellers out there if you feel you must buy on the net, but buying on the net there is no service by definition and warranty parts replacement doesn't happen in real time and you do their labor for them at no charge. You might get a more realistic SFR if you use a hose bib or faucet closer to your well pressure tank and before you distribution manifold. That said... I appreciate you understanding that data and specs are needed from your own experience so you, more than the average poster, should know better than to ask someone else to do what you know is wrong and you will usually end up not getting what you need and still have water treatment problems . This is not a situation where the homeowner would incur considerable cost by cutting into walls, repairing sheet rock, and repainting. We're talking modest cost for a comprehensive water test by a certified lab compared to the money wasted buying the wrong softener or not treating a water condition the homeowner doesn't even know they have and would want to treat if they did know. Buying a house with a well comes with more responsibility than a house on a water system. YOU have the responsibility of making the water nice and SAFE. You should be testing annually for at least nitrates and bacteria to protect yourself and your family. There is a learning curve and maintenance to learn or pay to have done and expenses to bear, but you bought the house so all that is on you and you can do it. What you can't do is NOT DO IT. Your Realtor and builder should have explained this to you or you should have discovered it when you did your homework while considering the house. You did research wells and living on them before you signed on the dotted line... didn't you? When your 10 year old gets sick and you rush him/her to the doctor do you tell the doc... no labs, no tests, just give me your best guess what's wrong with my kid? When you make the wrong decision because you didn't get a comprehensive water test from a certified lab and you still have water spots and calcium deposits and other problems you didn't treat cause you didn't know you had those problems cause you didn't get a lab test... think your wife will be easier on you after spending money for a softener that isn't sized correctly and not treating other water problems you have cause you didn't know you have them cause you didn't get a lab test? I'd really like to help you and the other few people this week who asked the same thing as you, but I don't guess, assume, or average water softener sizing. I'm going to stop trying to explain to posters why they need to provide the data before a softener can be correctly sized and just not reply to these questions. Wastes my time, hurts my fingers, and you know better than to ask me to do what you know is not going to get you what you need. Sorry This post was edited by justalurker on Sat, Sep 7, 13 at 11:07