If you are looking for a new water
softener water purifier we recommend you contact us first so we can look at
your various options and make sure you are getting the right advice, these
units don't suit every one. Please ring 0800 787 392 or send
us an
email
We are Steve Reynolds and Greg Morgan and we fix your water problems.
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Some area of New Zealand have very hard water.
If
you have calcium build up on your appliances or your water is hard to lather
with soap, it is possible you need a water softener. We have a variety of
models to choose from and some which work differently from others, please ring
0800 787 392 and we can find the right solution for you.
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What does hard water do?
When hard water is heated the dissolved solids of calcium and magnesium are
released from the water and again form into crystals that build into a hard
rock like material we know as scale, plus it forms scum when mixed with soaps,
shampoos and detergents and blockages occur in pipes, boilers washing machines
etc.
Even washing perfectly clean hands in hard water will cause the water to become
scummy and because it is sticky it will cling to the surfaces of baths and
basins, and worse still it will also cling to every fibre of clothing and
linen, it's almost impossible to rinse out, together with hard water deposits
it really is a big problem.
People with sensitive skin or people with eczema sufferer particularly badly
from bathing and washing in hard water, but when they get the accumulative
effects of wearing clothes with residual scale and scum on them in contact with
their delicate skin the condition is aggravated day in day out.
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Hard water costs!
Official government statistics prove the added costs to heating bills, and
shows that you could be losing as much as 70% efficiency on running costs. The
savings in the cost of soaps, shampoos, detergent and other cleaning materials
is a worthwhile reason to have a water softener installed, less of all of these
chemicals used is also very good for the environment, with less of these
chemicals entering the eco system (as much as 75% less) it can only benefit our
rivers and waterways.
Benefits!
A water softener will not only benefit your hot water and heating system but
will also protect all appliances from hard water We know of no other home
improvement product that has such a short repayment period, a water softener
actually pays for itself just on the savings it makes on energy alone, but
there are of course many other benefits.
• No more spotting and scale marks on sinks and baths.
• No more hard work to clean shower screens.
• No more blocked shower heads.
• No more scale in kettles or coffee makers.
• No more scale in washing machines.
• No more scale in your hot water tank.
• No more scale on immersion heaters.
• No more scale on boilers.
The moment that you have your water softener installed it will stop the
formation of damaging and expensive hard water scale. Normally that would have
systematically chocked your plumbing through out your home. Our Water softener
does more than preventing this; it actually dissolves the lime scale (Calcium
rock) and eventually leaves the system as clear of scale as the day it was
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How does it work?
The basis of all water softeners is a medium called ion exchange resin. It
changes calcium and magnesium salts that cause hardness into sodium salts and
is then termed soft. Hard water is passed through a sealed column filled with
millions of tiny beads of the ion exchange resin. As it passes through the
minerals that cause hardness are attracted to the beads and locked to them.
When the resin has attracted as much of the hardness it can it has to be
cleaned, but this is done automatically by a salt brine solution and is known
as "regeneration".
A small amount of the salt brine rinses of the accumulated hardness and is
washed harmlessly to drain; the sodium from the salt remains on the resin to be
"exchanged" for the hardness minerals and is ready to soften the water again.
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