Have Hard Water? Here’s What You Can Do About It!

Hard water is not much fun. It adds to heating costs, increases usage of soap  and detergents, leaves ugly stains on new surfaces and causes equipment to  breakdown. All rain is essentially soft as it falls. On its way through the sky the rain  picks up carbon dioxide forming a very weak acid. Water is a fantastic solvent  and will pick up and dissolve impurities along it way. Weak carbonic acid, which  is what rainwater essentially is, is an even greater solvent and so will pick up  all sorts of stuff on its travels to the water table. As rain comes into contact with surface rocks containing calcium it quickly picks up calcium ions. It is these ions that are the cause of hard water. As  water evaporates from surfaces it leaves small calcium carbonate deposits ...

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