What has literacy to do with knowing how a device works?
I saw something on the telly 10 yers ago that it was going to replace all filters.
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Hard water - not filtered by water board?
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I have a well and decided not to treat as calcium is borderline. If I had treated, as next door neighbor did, when he sold his house found that he needed an extra drainage field dug for the exchanger flush as salt is harmful to septic systems. Probably hastens concrete erosion as you will observe if you ever used sodium chloride on your concrete walk to melt ice.
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I'm sure you get all that stuff from food. People make too much fuss a= bout minerals and vitamins.
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Brazil nuts are an STD. If you eat a Brazil nut then have sex with some= one who has nut allergies, they will have an allergic reaction.
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Bad for your kettle? I know of people in London who don;t soften their water. Their kettles don't break. A kettle is too simple a device to care.
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So inside a combi boiler it would never experience buildup?
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So yours isn't the type mentioned in this thread (nd presumably in a dishwasher) where you constantly supply several pounds of salt?
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What are you protecting? As you said it's good for you.
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I'd forgotten about them. But AFAIK anything from Yorkshire upwards is soft.
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Probably cheaper than softening the water.
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Because you want one a different colour? I hope you give the old one to charity.
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It could be softened but that is not the way to do it. You don't need soft water to flush toilets, water the garden, etc so it seems silly to pay the expense of treating it all.
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In soft water areas kettles just leak after a year or two - scale seals the leaks.
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Not properly scale, but they do get a coating. That is why in soft-water areas they add phosphates (phosphate dosing) to reduce the absorbtion of lead from old pipes.
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Elsewhere in the thread someone said you needed air for it to deposit.
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Does it not clog the cistern?
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I've never known anyone's kettle break after only a year or two, and I'm in a very soft water area. I'd say they last 5 to 10 years.
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Our last kettle lasted 15 years. My parents replaced a 25 year old one simply because it looked very dated.
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My grandfather sealed his with a bar of soap.
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I had the idea you threw things away a lot.
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Does your wife not volunteer in a charity shop?