Are you noticing stains in your kitchen sink? Is your skin dry and itchy? These are both signs that you might have an issue with hard water. The fix for hard water is most often the installation of a whole house water softener. The installation of a water softening system will improve the natural life of the plumbing within the home, your appliances, your clothing and more.
A water softening system are designed to take out an increase in calcium and magnesium ions be means of an exchange with either sodium or potassium ions. After this occurs the softening unit will regenerate and cleanse the systems of excess ions until they have been rejuvenated with new sodium or potassium ions. It is important to know the level of your waters hardness when setting up the rate at which your family uses water. It is important that the water you use every day is replenished in order to keep the build up of scale within your plumbing at a minimum while helping to improve your water heaters lifespan.
Here are some signs to help you determine if you need a new water softener installed or an older water softener replaced:
There is build up on appliances:
Can you see mineral deposits forming on coffee pot, the dishwasher, or other appliances? If you can visually see this scale occurring, then image what is happening inside the pipes where you cannot see. This scale will clog your homes plumbing and make it so that the water is not passing through the pipes as intended. Hard water brings on a buildup of scale, eventually creating inefficient plumbing. The hard, chalky substance, scale, is created from a build up of calcium and magnesium bicarbonate. The technology within water softener systems helps reduce the scale build up with ions exchange technology.
Dry skin and hair:
Extra calcium and magnesium salts within your homes water causes itchy, dry skin and hair. This is not something that can be overcome with soap and shampoo. When the build up is too much the water will no longer bring nourishment to your skin and instead it dries it out. The extra minerals found in the unsoftened water create an environment that doesn’t allow soap to be completely removed from the skin.
Clothing, sheets and blankets:
Are the fabrics within your home looking faded and feeling scratchy on your skin? This can be do to hard water which contains an excess amount of mineral substances. It will not matter what kind of laundry soap, softener, or fabric sheets are used while doing laundry, if you are doing your wash in untreated, unsoftened water. The installation of the right water softener for your home and water can change this.
If you sense an issue with your homes water, it is probably time to have the water tested. A professional water conditioning company will do a detailed analysis of the water coming into your home and prepare a report offering water treatment solutions to fix the issues with the water in your home.
At Reynolds Water Conditioning Company, we are here to help make sure our clients don’t buy water treatment systems that they don’t need. We are here to make sure you find a water softening system that gives you the results you are looking for, whether it is to remove iron or odor from you water; we have a solution that will help! For more information contact our experts at 800.572.9575 or at our website https://reynoldswater.com.