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Effects Of Hard Water

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Have you ever wondered exactly what hard water is and where it comes from? It is explained pretty easily and if you have hard water you may not even know you do, but you do realize that there is something about your water that is not precisely right. Do you get unsightly build up around your water faucets that are crusty and hard to remove? When you wash your hair does it feel lack luster and have a feeling of being coated or not really clean? These are signs that you have hard water.

Hard water is simply water that contains minerals that are gotten into the water by its contact with rocks at its source. The water flows around the rocks and miniscule particles of these rocks get into the water. The usual minerals that get into water are calcium and magnesium, although it can contain others also. The more minerals that you have in your water the more annoying it can be.

While these minerals in your water are not harmful to you, they are annoying when you try to clean them from surfaces that the water comes in contact with. It is usually only easily removed by using cleaning products that are specifically designed to get it off. Allowing the cleaner to soak on the hard water residue for several minutes will generally help it to come off easier, but rest assured, as long as you have hard water the stains will come back.

Hard water can also affect the way your laundry looks and feels. Your clothes and lines might feel stiff or scratchy and laundry detergents and soaps do not perform nearly as well in hard water. It is also possible to harm the fibers in clothes and other things over time. It can actually reduce the life of materials by up to forty percent.

Hard water can also leave the crusty residue in your plumbing pipes and in the water lines of your appliances. Over time this build up can reduce the flow of water and could actually cause your appliances to have to work harder and increase your energy bill. You probably never would have thought that.

One of the best and easiest solutions for getting rid of hard water is to have a water softener mechanism installed into your plumbing system. By doing this the majority of minerals are removed and will give you a much better quality of water for bathing, laundry, and for use in your appliances. Doing away with the mineral deposits in the water lines of your appliances can lengthen their life for up to three years in some cases. That would be enough savings right there to make the water softener well worth the investment.

Effects Of Hard Water

So-called "hard water" is called that because it has an excess of minerals in it that cause the water to leave mineral deposits. These minerals, such as magnesium or calcium don't allow the water to soap up properly when you wash, stay in your clothing and make them rougher, and may make the water taste and smell badly. Removing these minerals will make the water "soft".

Probably only about 15% of the homes in U.S. have soft water, according to the United States Geological Survey. These minerals are not harmful to health, and traces of them may even be beneficial. Just as warm air in your home is not harmful, you still want an air cooler.

However, many people do not like the effects of hard water. Besides the annoying features like not being able to suds up your head when you shampoo, hard water also can damage water pipes, faucets and the pots and pans that water is heated in. The minerals in the water can also leave marks and stains on the sink and counter tops that are not very attractive. This ultimately means that most people would prefer to have water in their homes that is treated in order to render it "soft".

In order to do this, homeowners can install a hard water filter, also known as a water softener that will treat the water as it passes through it. This process takes place by ion exchange, a process in which the sodium chloride molecules are exchanged for the molecules of the minerals that are the cause of hard water. These minerals (mostly magnesium, iron and calcium) are removed when the water is passed through a tank where the ion exchange takes place. Withe these minerals gone, the water is now soft water. The water softener has a resin bed enclosed in a tank containing brine, which is the sodium chloride, or salt. For this reason, the higher level of sodium may not be best for those on a sodium restricted diet.

There are some other filters that work differently, since the water passes through a magnetic field instead of through a brine solution. This magnetic field removes the minerals that can cause damage to your pipe, faucet and cookware. The calcium, which is good for your bones, stays in the water.

There is still some skepticism about the effectiveness of this system: do your own research to find out whether you want to believe the claims.

Hard water filters only eliminate minerals from the water; they do not remove any chemicals or bacteria that may be in your water supply. If you are concerned about the health issues of these contaminants, you will have to install a water filtration system, not a water softening system in your home, or both. Water filtration systems will also soften the water, but not to the extent that a water filter system will.

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