Gary Slusser wrote:IMO, ECO is a high priced version of the GE, Whirlpool or Kenmore. You'd do better with a softener with a Clack WS-1 control valve.
H2O_MAN wrote:ECOwater offers a complete system that is professionally installed and serviced...
if you get the Clack, you're just getting an over priced version of a Fleck control valve and you're on your own from there.
Actually a Fleck valve that can compete with the features of a Clack WS-1 costs more...
If he gets an ECO or any other national brand softener and has a problem he must call a local dealer for service.
That's where he is now and notice how he is tearing his Rain Soft apart instead of calling for service?
He wants to fix it himself, and if he had a Clack WS-1 control he could.
And with parts that cost no more than half what Fleck and ECO, Culligan, Rain Soft, etc. etc. cost and he wouldn't have to pay for a service call.
With a pair of channel lock type pliers he could change all five parts of a Clack and have his water back on in less than 30 minutes.
I think someone is stuck on stupid.... that would be the guys here that keep telling people that are posting for help in do it yourself forum, to go to local dealers. If the poster wanted to do that, they wouldn't be here!