>> John Andrews wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > A couple of questions about hard water
>> >
>> > (1) Is Calgon a good idea?
>> > (2) There's a gizmo you can buy for about 130 quid - connect it to the
>> > rising main and it claims to dissolve the scale caused by hard water
>> > from heating elements etc. Think the gizmo is called ScaleWatcher or
>> > similar. Anyone have any opinions on this please?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>>
>> Light blue touchpaper and retire :-)
>>
>> In case you're new to uk.d-i-y, these questions have been discussed AT
>> LENGHT several times before as I'm sure a quick Google will prove. >>
>> 1. Never tried calgon.
>>
>> 2. I'd suggest you ignore any suggestion (and there will be at least
>> one) that you can soften water without a proper ion exchange softener >
>Phosphor and electronic descalers do not soften water. They descale it, and
>that is what 99% of people want.
>
They do? Do you have the Gallup figures for that?
.andy
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