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Do you live in San Antonio?. Save your hot water heater, the average replacement of a hot water heater is $2,000.
With the hard water in San Antonio (average is 18 GPG) you are shortening the life of your hot water heater by 30% if you don’t have water softener. If you have a hot water heater with a tank and have no water softener you should be draining the hot water heater every 6 months to maintain it to its optimal potential. Read More
Water containing excessive amounts of dissolved calcium, magnesium, iron, and other compounds is called hard water. While it isn’t harmful to consume, and most people can use it safely for everyday tasks like cooking or bathing, it does cause several problems. Simple Water Softeners has worked in this industry for a long time and has seen the impact of hard water. Here’s a look at the issues it can cause:
You wanted clean filtered water for your family, so you purchased a whole house filter. A whole house filter removes chlorine, herbicides, pesticides and organics and it gives you nice water. Whole house filtration needs to be maintained, if not properly maintained you will get adverse effects from it. The media or the filter in a whole house filter needs to be replaced on a regular basis. Find out from your installer what is their recommendations.
If you want clean filtered water for your family so you have to purchase a whole house filter. Whole House Filtration System Removes chlorine, herbicides, pesticides and organics and gives you nice water. An important thing to consider is Whole house filtration needs to be maintained. If not properly maintained you will get adverse effects from it.
With San Antonio city water specifically, anyone should use around 1 to 1 ½ bags of salt per month (40Lb bags). Put 3 to 5 bags each quarterly year and all should be good. The hardness of the water and size of softener will determine the amount of salt it will require for each regeneration. Read More
Our pets, our loved ones. Where do you get the water from they are drinking? Do you just get it from the tap at the kitchen sink? Do you drink the water from the tap? If you do not like the water, then your pet probably does not really enjoy either. He is just thirsty and has no option. The municipal water facilities are adding more and more chlorination systems or even chloramines to our water, making it taste and smell. Read More
You read about both and it sounds like why am I carrying those bags of salt?
Be careful do your research completely and do not stop at what you want to hear, first let’s explain how they work.
A softener that uses salt has an ion exchange process, this means as the water passes through the resin one calcium ion is exchanged for one sodium. The calcium sticks to the resin bead and does not enter your plumbing coming into your house. Read More