By Rick Hirsch/County Extension Agent
Safe drinking water is important to everyone all the time, especially in the home where we cook, eat and spend many off-work hours.
If you have any doubts at all about the quality of water in your home, a water test is the only way to discover if a problem actually exists. Install an RO system at your house and carry out the test. And quality is important because it involves the health of all family members.
In addition to illness, symptoms of water quality problems are: poor taste, unusual color or odor, and staining of clothes of fixtures by water.
It transforms hard water into the so-called soft water. Reducing its mineral contents does the transformation. Hard water mainly contains calcium and magnesium metal, and sometimes bicarbonates and sulfates. Soft water, on the other hand, is the type of water with none or little content of the mentioned minerals. Here you will get the everything to know about fleck 5600sxt Water Softener. A Process is used in decreasing the calcium, magnesium, and in some cases manganese and ferrous iron dissolved in hard water. The fact is softener is a system for transforming chemically hard water into a soft water.
Softeners replace the calcium and magnesium contents in hard water by sodium. Sodium does not accumulate in pipes and also does not react to soap. This means hard water effects are eliminated. The principle of the softener system is easy to understand. Hard water is allowed to enter the water softener. It contains a layer of plastic beads and in some instances, the material used is called Zeolite. The layer of materials inside the water softener is soaked with sodium ions. Sodium is exchanged with the contents of the hard water, calcium, and magnesium. When water comes out of the softener, the water is said to be of the soft water type. Home water softeners can take up a lot of space most conventional systems are quite bulky especially the resin tanks. If you have a large garage or utility room where you can house your softener you’re in luck. However most people don’t have space indoors in addition to their washer, dryer, water heater, and other large appliances. For this reason some homeowners like the idea of installing their system outside. There are some major challenges that you will need to consider before you go through with this.
Water from public or municipal water systems is regularly tested for contaminants regulated by Federal and State standards. However, some public water supplies may have water quality problems caused by distribution systems. The problem can be with pipes in your house, Manassas plumbers from Marines Plumbing can tell for sure after they check your plumbing system.
