With modern appliances and more effective cleaning products for household use, home care should be a breeze. However, some factors like hard household water can make cleaning and other tasks more difficult. Hard water occurs when high levels of minerals like calcium and magnesium are present.
Fortunately, problems associated with hard water disappear when your water is softened. You can banish these annoying household problems with a soft water system in your home.
Crystal-clear shower water from your shower lands on and then dries on your glass shower doors. Over time, this develops a white film. Residue that remains on glass and clear plastic shower components are a result of minerals in your hard water.
Cleaning products aim to remove stubborn hard water stains but require diligent scrubbing and repeated use. Rather than research cleaning products that remove hard water stains the best, you can install a water softener that removes mineral deposits from your water. Your shower door will stay cleaner and easier to see through much longer after you clean it.
Clogged Shower Sprayers
Rainfall showerheads and other luxurious spray-type showers feel amazing. Varying spray patterns allow you to enjoy a relaxing mist or energizing massage. However, after a while you may notice individual water streams spray crooked, weak, or wobbly, or even appear completely clogged. Your showerhead no longer functions as it should because mineral deposits are trapped in the spray streams.
You can soak your showerhead in straight vinegar to remove the clogged solids, which is simple if your sprayer is detachable. If the head is permanently fixed, however, you must be willing to use a bag of vinegar and string to immerse the head long enough to remove blockages.
Water softeners take away the annoying potential for minerals to plug up the holes in your shower sprayer and can give you long-lasting, shower bliss.
Stained Toilet Bowls
A very dirty toilet looks disgusting. Nothing is more frustrating than a toilet that looks dirty after you take the time and energy to clean it. For example, brown rust stains that streak the inside of the toilet bowl happen because of hard water.
You need a variety of products like vinegar, baking soda, and borax to successfully scour away rust stains. Some cleaning experts even suggest sandpaper to remove rust. Natural cleaning chemicals may be great for the environment, but you still must use vigor to remove rust stains.
A water
softener removes dissolved rust solids as well as it removes calcium and magnesium from the water in your home.
Undesirable Laundry Results
The automatic washing machine makes clean clothes more quick and convenient. However, a washer cannot perform at its best when hard water is part of the equation. With the help of sticky laundry detergent powders and soaps, dissolved minerals in hard water fasten to clothes while they are in the washing machine. Over time, you may notice a few undesirable results in your laundry results:
- Colors become dull
- Clothes feel stiff or scratchy
- Fabric develops holes and wears out more quickly
High levels of iron in water can affect your load of whites as well. Ironically, the use of bleach to whiten fabric actually works with iron to create iron oxidize that turns white towels and sheets yellow rather than brighten them.
Common advice suggests detergent users wash clothes in hot water or use more detergent to lessen undesirable results of hard water. Unfortunately, these methods don't take away the minerals from your water. Instead, they increase your utility and detergent costs.
Soft water eliminates minerals that cause laundry problems in the first place.
If you're ready to be rid of these and other frustrating household cleaning problems that hard water causes, visit Aqua Masters Inc. We have soft water technology that changes the way the water in your home feels on your skin and performs in your kitchen, bath, and laundry room.