Many parts of California-especially parts of the South and East Bay-have hard water. If your home is in one of these hard water areas, your house, plumbing, and body could be suffering the consequences. There is a solution to this problem: installing a water softener. But what exactly does this plumbing fixture do and how does it work?
Why Do You Need a Water Softener?
Is your bathroom and kitchen filled with hard water stains and mineral deposits? When your home has hard water, it’s going to negatively affect your home, it’s plumbing, and your body. Here’s how hard water can negatively impact life at home:
- A layer of film and water stains can be present on any dishes, glasses, sinks, showers, and surrounding surfaces within the kitchen and bathrooms.
- Calcium and magnesium deposits can buildup within plumbing, causing reduced efficiency via clogs and blockages.
- Utility bills can increase due to the poor efficiency of your plumbing system.
- Hard water will prevent soap from properly lathering onto your skin. This combination of soap and hard water can also cause a soap scum to be generated.
- Hair and skin can become dry and brittle after constant exposure.
How Does a Water Softener Work?
Luckily, the negative effects of hard water can be avoided altogether with the installation of a water softener (or repair of a faulty one). But how? How does this magical water softener turn hard water into soft water?
- The water softener is connected to your home’s plumbing system, so that the hard water can travel through this fixture before exiting out of a faucet or appliance.fixture.
- Within the water tank there are resin beads, which will collect and remove the minerals from the water.
- The newly softened water will exit the water tank and flow to all of the faucets and fixtures in your home.
- Every so often the resin beads need to be rinsed and recharged. Water softener salt can be added to the brine tank of the unit where it will do that exact job. The water softener will then flush out the remaining brine and minerals into a drainpipe, leaving you with a water softener that’s ready to go!
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