You need to know what is in your water softener. It all sounds good when you buy it but years down the line when you need work done to it, you do not remember what is in there. What type of media and what quantity of each is very important.

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Your pets know water. Let’s face it, their nose is better than yours. Pets will drink the water from your tap if you give it to them, they need water. But do they like it. Ask yourself, do you like it? Probably not. Just as hard water will not hurt a human, it does not hurt your pet. But just like you, if your pet liked their water, they would drink more water. And we all know the more water we drink, the healthier we are. Not many of us drink enough water. But if you like the water you are drinking, you will find you will drink more. Our fur babies will feel the same way.

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If you’re a resident of San Antonio and Hill Country Texas, there’s a good chance you’re experiencing the chalky marks on your dishware after washing, and minerals that are crusty and keep your countertops and faucets from appearing sparkling clean.

The water from the underground source is filtered through limestone and has significant amounts of dissolved minerals, typically magnesium and calcium when it is pumped out of the ground. The mineral content is commonly known as water hardness. The San Antonio area has one of the highest hardness levels in the United States. So, if you reside in this region of Texas and don’t have a water softener for your water there is probably hard water that is flowing through the pipes in your house.

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Water softener will remove the calcium and magnesium from the water. Make it to where you have soft water coming into the house. To remove the hardness prior to coming into the house it will have to be a salt based system.

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Whole House is filtration that removes the chemicals from your water. A water softener will remove the calcium and the magnesium. The whole house filter will remove chlorine, herbicides, pesticides and organics.  Basically bringing your water to a more pure form of just water!

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Hard water, you’ve probably heard this term thrown round, but what does it without a doubt mean? Tough water occurs when minerals — magnesium and calcium, especially — collect. In San Antonio the majority of water is very hard. 7 is hard, 10 is extreme and 14 is off the charts.  Now the people who are getting the new pipeline water from East Texas wow they have it wonderful. The city seems to move around the nice water a little. But the rest of us we get water off the charts. If you have the hard water. You know it. Within days your hair shows it., dry dull. Your skin between the hardness and the chlorine you feel like an alligator skin. Lotion lotion, lotion.

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The good news is that water softeners are much easier to troubleshoot than they used to be, and while water softener repair can be challenging, with the right kind of knowledge, you can fix even the most common issues when your water softener is not working and get it back up and running in no time.

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If you live in an area with hard water like San Antonio, Texas, using hard water to wash your clothes, bathe, or cook can leave you with build-up of soap residue and mineral deposits on your skin, hair, and clothing. A water softener can help you prevent this buildup, which is why water softeners are so common in areas with hard water and become even more popular during the cold winter months when everything seems to be covered in a layer of ice and snow! Here’s how a water softener helps with hard water from Hill Country Water Softeners of San Antonio, Texas.

7 Benefits of Having a Water Softener

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Do you know that a water softener is the hardest working appliance in the house?.  The water softener is the one appliance so many will try to go the economical way. But you know,  a water softener protects your biggest investment, your home. It protects everything that the hard water touches. The hot water heater is very much affected by hard water so, you can shorten the life span drastically.

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This is a common question, all water softeners will work off either one. Salt and potassium used to be close in cost but that is not the case anymore. There is a large price difference in them anymore for example Salt prices is average $6 and Potassium is $23. Water Softener system will use the same amount with salt or potassium so most people use salt.

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