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Hard water slowly destroys everything it touches. Left untreated, it costs money, can destroy appliances and can even lower the value of your home. Soap doesn’t lather easily, glasses are cloudy after washing, a ring forms around the bathtub, faucets and shower heads are crusty, laundering results are poor and there are many other easily recognized signs. There are several degrees of water hardness. Even moderately hard water can seriously damage the plumbing system in your home and, in time, cause inconvenient and expensive problems.
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Hard water is loaded with a variety of impurities that react with soap to form a gummy, insoluble curd. This soap curd clings stubbornly to everything it touches. The ring around a bathtub is curd. That same curd causes hair to become dull and hard to manage. Soap curd clogs skin pores and prevents natural oils from moisturizing the skin. This dryness causes itching and can even aggravate skin conditions like psoriasis, eczema and acne. Soap curd is especially noticeable by the scummy film it forms on dishes, glassware, walls and floors.
Hardness and other dissolved solids combine to form the residue seen as spots on glasses, crockery, cutlery and shower enclosures. Laundry washed in hard water takes on a gray color and wears out faster than expected. With hard water in your washing machine, it’s almost impossible to wash clothes white—even when you use large amounts of detergent and bleach. Minerals and insoluble particles in hard water trap dirt and soap curd in the fabric of your clothes and linens. These deposits give fabric a dull gray ‘washedout’ look and cause the clothing fibers to deteriorate faster. Baking with hard water imparts an undesirable taste from the hardness minerals in your food. Tea, coffee and other beverages prepared with hard water taste awful and often contain flakes of insoluble hardness minerals. Perhaps the greatest damage done by hard water can’t be easily seen until it is too late. Water heaters, humidifiers, boilers and household pipes become lined with an increasingly thick layer of calcium and magnesium scale. As this scale builds up, the water flow in pipes diminishes to such a point that new piping is sometimes the only option to remedy the situation. Hard water scale inside a water heater forms an insulating layer that prevents the burners or heating elements from heating the water efficiently. Just one-eighth inch of scale inside the tank can require as much as 30 percent more fuel to heat the water to the desired temperature. |
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