Water Softeners and Air Filtration Systems - Culligan water softner

Does anyone have any info as to the quality and reliability of the Culligan softners?
Would you reccomend it for residential use

Let me put it this way. If Culligan offered me a FREE water softener, I would say "No THANKS."

The Unit after cycle it leave air in the cold lines and when I turn on the cold water the water and air blow out. And now as of this morning the water is comming out very slow and maybe none. The Unit is just on the Hot water side. I changed to the by pass mode. And am on hard water. Dose the unit need a valve replacement kit and will I have to go to Culligan for Parts & Repairs.

I have had no problems with the Culligan system EXCEPT that is way too expensive. I could have gotten much more for much less, that would have been as good or better than what I have. My biggest problem with Culligan is that if something ever goes wrong, Culligan parts are proprietory
and therfore I am forced to get the parts ( and labor) from Culligan at a rate significantly higher than if I had done a little more local research. Take you time look around, there are much better deals than Culligan

I just bought a house (3 months ago) with a Culligan MARK 100 metered softener that was about four years old.

There was rust in the shower, toilet, and sinks as well as corrossion at the faucets and scale build-uo on the shower heads and faucets.

I have 20 gpg and 2ppm (dissolved) iron but the softener was set at 40 grain per gallon and was still not handling it. It was going through about 100 - 120 lbs of salt a month. I had no interest in calling for a service.

I replaced it with an 18-year old rebulit Kinetico (K-60) with 20-micron pleated prefilter and all the former problems have vanished after some elbow grease on the plumbing fixtures and a few pipe and fixture replacements. I also put in an RO.

In the last 6 weeks I used 40 pounds of salt and my wife and daughter have sinced joined me. Go figure!

I would not want to work in their service department.

Andy Christensen, CWS

They were once a great company.

After being bought and sold so many times, most of their good water people at corporate have now moved to greener pastures.

Quality control seems to be a recurrent issue these days.