Hard Water Conditioning
Do you have hard water?
If you have any of the following issues then you may have hard water-
- Water spotting on your glass - showers, tiles, splash-backs
- Water spotting on your stainless steel surfaces - kitchen bench tops
- Water spotting when you wash the car - always having to chamois it off
- Mineral build up in your kettle / jug or around your tap ware or sinks (often white in colour)
- Mineral build up basins, sinks, toilets, porcelain
- Soap take a long time to lather up or you use more than you should
- Water tastes 'funny' almost 'chalky'
If you identified with any of the above then we have one of two solutions for you.
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 contact us now using the form to your right.
Some areas 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, free phone 0800 787 392 and we can find the right solution for you.
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What does hard water do?
Hard water costs!
Water softener benefits
How does it work?
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.
Water softener 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 installed.
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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.
Free phone 0800 787 392 now for your local Pure Water Services specialist or contact us via the form top right of this page.