If you're not convinced by the evidence of your own eyes that hard water damages everything it touches and increases your heating bills, we will happily bring you a free sample of softened water and we'll be pleased to answer any other questions you may have. This offer, which is limited to households within our normal installation area, is absolutely free with no obligation and no hidden strings. But we know that when you experience softened water, you will want it all the time.

Water is softened or conditioned by replacing hard ions such as magnesium and calcium with softer sodium or potassium ions. Water softeners must be regenerated regularly, renewing their ability to remove hardness from water.

It is suggested that a person first try using a quarter cup at first instead of a cup or more. The general rule is use as little soap as possible at first, and gradually increase the amount until you have a sufficient amount.

Softened water uses sodium ions to replace calcium in the water supply. With time, it will kill just about any houseplant. It is better to use distilled or unsoftened water. Those cottony spots could be cottony cushion scale. If their numbers are small, you can swab them off with insecticidal soap or alcohol-dipped cotton swab. If the numbers are too high, you need to turn to a systemic insecticide.

The savings provided by a water softener will produce a return on investment within two to four years, but there are also many hidden benefits: Removal of existing scale from your hot water tank and associated pipe work - save on repairs and maintenance. Sinks, taps, toilets, shower screens and bathrooms will remain scale free - no more ugly white stains to wash off. Up to 75% reduction of soaps and detergents - use only one tablespoon of washing powder for your washing machine.

Softening water requires an ion exchange process be employed to remove the hardness ions (calcium and magnesium) from the water. These ions are dissolved in water and can not be trapped by filtration. Filtered water involves separating mineral particles like precipitated iron and organic matter from water. As water passes through a filter media, particles, which may vary in different size, are trapped, and only clean water passes through to service

The lack of hardness in your water is altering the taste of the water. If you find that you want to change the taste of your drinking water to eliminate this taste, we recommend a Reverse Osmosis system.

If the hardness level of the raw (untreated) water is high so to as a general rule will be the sodium level of the treated water. This water treated water could harm grass and hinder plant growth. Also using softened water on outside plants and shrubs is wasteful. Many people simply by-pass one or more of their outside spigots for outside watering. This can be done when the system is installed.

Softened water still contains all the natural minerals that we need. It is only deprived off its calcium and magnesium contents, and some sodium is added during the softening process. That is why in most cases, softened water is perfectly safe to drink. It is advisable that softened water contains only up to 300mg/L of sodium.

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YesÑthis is essential to the success of the product and probably why we get so many people "giving it a try." The people who are not happy with New Generation for any reason are as good an advertisement as those who are, because they tell their friends they got their money back, so no-one has anything to lose.

In this area yes. There are a small number of places where water is extremely hard. In these areas the level of sodium, introduced by the softening process, can exceed 200mgl (milligrams of sodium in a litre of water). The Department of Health recommend that, at this level, softened water should not be used to reconstitute baby feeds, or by those restricted to a low daily intake of sodium for medical reasons.

Many eczema sufferers do find that softened water is beneficial. Due to the complexity of eczema it is impossible to quantify why soft water helps but several reports suggest the following: Water softeners eliminate soap curd and result in a cleaner lather that is kind to skin, thus reducing dryness and itching When washing clothes in softened water, the amount of soap powder can be greatly reduced. Also, pure soap products can be used in preference to detergents.

The softening process does add some sodium or potassium to the conditioned water. The following chart shows approximately how much sodium or potassium is added to one quart of conditioned water based on the amount of feed water hardness. For comparison, (2) slices of white bread contain approximately 278 milligrams of sodium and (2) cups of milk contain approximately 226 milligrams of sodium. One large banana contains approximately 600 milligrams of potassium.

The sodium uptake through softened water depends on the hardness of the water. Averagely, less than 3% sodium uptake comes from drinking softened water. Estimates say that a person consumes about two to three teaspoons of salt a day, from various sources.

Although water-producing companies do have the opportunity to produce softened water, they will not always do so. A water producing company only has to add a water softener in its water purification system, to produce softened water cheaply. Hard water problems are most likely to occur when water is heated. As a result, hard water causes few problems to the water supplying companies, especially when only cold water runs through their pipes.

I have heard all kinds of controversy about distilled water - most everyone I know who is against it also happens to sell some other type of water filtration device, oddly enough. I marketed all kinds of water products in the late 1980's; water softeners, filters, reverse-osmosis and distillers. I researched the products very well.

Absolutely not! The amount of sodium that is produced by a water softener is miniscule in comparison to your daily allowance for sodium intake. For a further in depth look about sodium and water softeners or if you are on a sodium-restricted diet or therapy click here.

Yes, if you already have a water softener and you do not have a hard water drinking tap separated from the soft water system you can "bypass" the softener by branching off with a separate pipe "before" the softener and take that directly to any taps that you do not want softened i.e. the kitchen tap, a separate drinking faucet also on the sink unit and a garden hose tap.

Neither hard nor soft water should be used with a steam iron. Distilled water, or water treated by reserve osmosis, is acceptable for use over a period of time. Bear in mind that the softening of water does not remove the minerals, but soft water minerals can be more easily rinsed from the iron.

When first using softened water for household cleaning chores, it is best to use as little soap as possible. If necessary, the homeowner can gradually increase the quantity to produce the results desired. The habit of using far too much soap is not easily broken. Therefore, anyone contacting the customer should stress the coffee measure as being adequate, rather than the cup or more that may have been necessary prior to the installation of a water softener.

There are cases to be noted, in which people with dry skin conditions have benefited from water softening, because soft water is kinder to the hair and skin.

Yes. Do keep in mind that a water softener does not actually remove hard water minerals though. It works to keep calcium and magnesium suspended in the water by causing sodium ions to combine with carbonates in the water so that the hard water minerals cannot combine to form mineral scale. When the soft water evaporates, it will still leave behind a residue, often more than if a softener were not used.

Surveys of our customers show that washing and cleaning with The EWS is comparable to salt-softened water. Customers use less soaps, shampoos, and cleaning materials, than they used when their hard water was untreated. Customers report that they no longer use fabric softener, anti-static sheets, or hair conditioners. They also report that their clothes and hair dry faster, thus saving on time and energy costs.

For outside use on lawns or gardens, using softened water is wasteful. Where the concentration of hardness minerals is high, the sodium content after softening may be high enough to retard plant growth and harm grass. This is especially true in climates where rainfall is scarce. Areas that receive regular rain are not as sensitive to sodium accumulation because the rain "rinses" the earth.

Other oxygenated water products on the market use a process very similar to carbonation. It forces oxygen gas into the water under high pressure. The problem is, oxygen gas is unstable. As soon as the pressure is released, the added oxygen gas bubbles up and escapes. Even if you consumed a significant amount of the oxygen gas in these products, you would receive little or no benefit because your digestive system is designed to process liquids and solids, not gases.

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Water is softened by the use of a water softener (often referred to as a conditioner). The hard water is passed through a tank containing resin beads coated with sodium ions or potassium ions. The calcium and magnesium ions are exchanged for the sodium or potassium ions, thus softening the water. When the beads have trapped all the hardness they can hold, the unit is regenerated with salt brine to replace the hardness ions with sodium or potassium ions.