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8 Signs you may have hard water:
1. Your Water Tastes or Smells Funny
-A strange odor or taste to drinking water is often one of the first clues you have a water conditioning problem. It’s a sure-sign there is hard water or some sort of bacterial contaminant.
2. You’re Getting Strange Stains
-Hard water, particularly iron, can be to blame for ugly brown reddish stains on porcelain.
3. You’re Constantly Cleaning Up Soap Scum
-When you have hard water, you’ll notice nasty soap scum seems to accumulate all over the place. Soap and the minerals in hard water just don’t play nicely together. Dishes never seem clean, always spotty.
4. Your Showering Experience Suffers
-Minerals in hard water cause it to react ineffectively with soap. This makes it harder to get a good lather when you bathe. It also makes it more difficult to rinse the soap off your body, leaving a film of soapy residue on your skin.
With hard water, you may not be getting as clean and you may notice your hair is hard to manage. Yes, hard water could even be responsible for your bad hair days and even effect your expensive salon color!
5. Your Pipes Keep Getting Clogged
-Scale deposits clog pipes and lead to major plumbing issues and poor water pressure.
6. Your Clothes Aren’t Getting Clean
-Clothes washed in hard water often appear dingy and wear out faster. It can even make your towels scratchy and rough.
7. Your Family Has Skin Irritation Issues
-There is research indicating that bathing in hard water could cause eczema symptoms to worsen.
Another study concluded exposure to hard water could increase the risk of developing eczema in elementary-school-age children.
8. Your Appliances Are Wearing Out Quickly
-This might be the most expensive hard water problem of all. Those scale deposits can wreak havoc on many appliances in your home, from the dishwasher, ice maker, washing machine to the hot water heater.
Build up of sediment makes appliances less efficient and can wear a washing machine out 30% faster than normal.
It is estimated that hard water expenses could cost you $800 or more every year.
Contact us today for free consultation and estimate to solve your home's hard water problems.
