QUARTER MOON PLUMBING A/C & HEATING: Tip of the Week Why to invest in a Water Softener: Hard water mineral scale decreases efficiency and causes premature ware on your appliances, pipes and fixtures. In addition, because hard water contains contaminants that interfere with cleaning, homeowners find themselves using more soap and chemicals to clean. To avoid these problems, homeowners often invest in a water softening unit to remove the hardness from the water. Your plumbing system will see the benefits of soft water. All your fixtures and pipes will last longer (extremely hard water can clog a faucet or toilet in as little as five years!). Hard water scale builds up in your pipes and decreases flow rates, so with soft water, youll maintain your high flow rates. Most softeners pay for themselves after five to seven years depending on a range of variables including original price, household size, water hardness, and frequency of cleaning. Think of a water softener as an investment. How many investment strategies pay themselves out in five years? Not many. Worried about how the additional salt affects your sodium intake, consider this: An average soft-water consumer takes in about five grams of sodium through normal eating and drinking. Of those five grams of sodium, one-third of one gram (0.336 g) is from softened water the equivalent weight of half a watermelon seed. A black olive contains 238 times the amount of sodium youll consume in an entire day from soft water! Thats how little sodium is added to your diet through soft water.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:09:24 +0000
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