WATER SOFTENER
WHAT IS HARD WATER?
Your family deserves the best; this includes clean, quality drinking water. City water can travel through miles of pipes before finally reaching your home. Chlorine is used to help keep that water clean, but this does not always address all of the water issues during transit. Even with city officials* best efforts, there are still approximately 700 boil water advisories every day.
- No more stained fixtures
- Better appliance efficiency
- Improve the taste of your water
- Eliminate odours from your water
- Eliminate pressure loss due to scaling
- Use less soap and detergent
Reasons to treat your hard water with a water softener:
- Shower heads used with hard water lost 75% of their flow rate in less than 18 months.
- Tankless water heaters failed after only 1.6 years on hard water. On soft water, they maintained the original factory rating.
- Operating costs were 34% less on 20 GPG (grains per gallon) water.
- Gas water heaters are up to 24% more cost-efficient on soft water.
- Electric water heaters can accumulate as much as 30 lbs of rock, shortening the heating element’s life.
- You can use 50% less soap and detergent with soft water. Hard water makes soap have to work much harder.
*Based on the 2009 Battelle Study that was conducted by the Water Quality Research
Foundation