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Water Softener Sizing

Water Softener Size Calculator

See the hardness load your household puts on a water softener and the capacity a regeneration interval you choose would need. Then check one exact softener in our database against it, row by row.

  • Free, no account
  • Nothing is stored on our side unless you save it
  • The same sizing engine for every softener
What do you know about your water?

Start from what you actually have. A home test counts as a measurement with its test date, where you took the sample and how you tested.

Your home

A ZIP places the home. It never stands in for a test.

Where is this home?
Only asked because there’s no ZIP. A ZIP would replace this.
How do you know your water use?

Only if you know it. A meter reading of softened water counts for more than household size.

Regeneration intervalOptional

Choose how many days you’d like between regenerations. We show the capacity that scenario would need. There is no right answer: a shorter interval means more regenerations, and a longer one needs more capacity.

About your homeEach is optional

Each one you answer lets a softener’s rows use it. Unanswered stays unknown.

We don’t estimate this for you. Add it only if you know it.
Is there a drain nearby?
Is there power nearby?
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What do you know about your water?

Your answers · tap to change

Check a softener against this load

Optional

As it appears on the unit’s label or in its manual. We match it exactly, never to a similar model.

Lab report

Add your lab report

Our system reads your report. You check each value before it’s used.

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