Improve Your Home Water with Water Softeners & Conditioners

The water in your home can contain natural minerals like calcium and magnesium. While harmless they do render the water ‘hard’. This causes spots on your glasses, rings in your bathtub, and can limit the effectiveness of soaps and detergents. Hard water can also leave scale deposits in your pipes, which can reduce the lifespan of your plumbing and fixtures. A water softener will reduce the amount of these minerals before the water enters your home. Salt-based units use an ion exchange process have long been the most popular water softener systems with homeowners. The only regular maintenance required is periodic recharging by adding more water softener salt to the water softener tank. You can also find two-tank systems which allow one tank to be recharged while the other tank remains functional.

Other types of water conditioning systems are also available. An iron filter or a water softener with iron removal can help eliminate red-orange stains in your tub and sinks. A system with a sulphur filter will help reduce hydrogen sulphide, which can impart a rotten egg smell in your water. Whichever system you choose consider using a water softener cleaner to keep its ion exchange capacity optimized.