Thread: Water Softeners
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Old 12-13-2007, 10:58 AM   #10
Clodfobble
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Our community website says our hardness is 15, but our most recent water bill claims it's only 10 right now. Which doesn't sound all that bad to me...? Certainly not compared to some of the numbers I've seen anecdotally. So now I'm left wondering why the hell I'm getting such crazy buildup on the dishes and the toilets and such, maybe it's not a typical hardness problem after all.

Either way, Mr. Clod was researching options and came up with something salt-less, I forget what it's called, but it claims to be specifically for borderline hardness like ours, and somehow it causes the calcium particles to actually clump together in larger grains, such that they are too big to stick to surfaces and build up. All on a tiny scale, of course, but like sandy water instead of cloudy water, or something.
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