DIY water softener vs professional job

[polygonum]

Have seen that suggested many times. What I want to know is what happens to the chlorine? I assume you don't get gassed every time you open the refrigerator door.

[Tim Lamb]

OK. So what is the grey stuff gathering on the sides of my toilet? Not shifted by the usual limescale products.

[tabbypurr]

It evaporates.

NT

[polygonum]

Within the refrigerator. So what then happens to it? Does it just sit there in the air? Or, being a fairly reactive element, does it react with things around it? I don't remember smelling chlorine when opening a refrigerator, even with a jug of tap water in it.

[Simon Mason]

Uric acid.

[Capitol]

yes, everything softened except the kitchen and outside taps.

[Tim Lamb]

No. The streaks clearly follow the residual dribbles after flushing.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Which the link below does not mention

[The Natural Philosopher]

Might be some kind of lead compound if you have lead plumbing. Lead carbonate perhaps.

Try stronger acid, or strong alkali.

The fact that it isn't shifted by limescale products suggests it isn't limescale....

Are the toilets fed from a gravity tank?

[Tim Lamb]

Unlikely. We didn't get mains water until '60's. I don't know what the W. Co. used but the private bit is blue poly.

Yes. This is reported *fact* so I should check the details.

Yes but plastic and fully shrouded. Heating circuit has a separate header and pump over pipe.

It only occurs on one out of four toilets and happens to be the one the plumber apologised for connecting to what he considered the *wrong* supply. I may easily have misunderstood what he said as it is now 21 years ago!

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[Tim+]

In some parts of the country it was more normal to plumb toilets from a tank fed supply rather than mains. This makes for a quieter but slower fill. Maybe he plumbed it into whatever *isn't* normal for your neck of the woods?

Tim

[Tim Lamb]

I think they are all tank fed apart from the utility room.

[Simon Mason]

Gonna be bit of a palaver as the only water pipes visible are under the floor boards.

[Fredxxx]

That wasn't the point. It is healthier to drink hard water than ingest excess sodium.

[Simon Mason]

Which is why we only drink bottled water and have one of these.

[Fredxxx]

Oh dear, can you explain how sodium salts dissolved in water can be removed by a filter?

If you said you had a Reverse Osmosis machine then all would be very different.

[Simon Mason]

QUOTE: ?An 8-ounce (237-milliliter) glass of softened water generally cont ains less than 12.5 milligrams of sodium, which is well within the Food and Drug Administration's definition of "very low sodium."

[tabbypurr]

ntains less than 12.5 milligrams of sodium, which is well within the Food a nd Drug Administration's definition of "very low sodium."

I've read that water mineral content is significant nutritionally, making i on exchange not ideal - but certainly not toxic.

NT

[The Natural Philosopher]

WEll so everyone says, but I never found hard evidence to back that up.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Actually its the calcium salts that one wants to get rid of. Thats what people do. Filter the hard water.

You CAN filter sodium salts out of course but I dint think a domestic water filter will do it.