What can you do about hard water?
Fitting a water softener is the easiest and most convenient way to eliminate hard water.
Recent advances in technology mean that water softeners are more efficient and compact than ever before. They don’t even need electricity to operate them.
How does a water softener work?
A water softener works by removing the calcium and magnesium from the water. It does this by passing the hard water through a cylinder containing an ion exchange resin in the form of millions of tiny beads.The resin attracts and exchanges the hardness minerals in the water.
The resin is automatically cleaned or 'regenerated' by rinsing a small amount of brine through the cylinder. The used brine, containing accumulated hardness does not enter the household water system - it is flushed harmlessly away.
Refreshed by the regeneration, the resin is again ready to remove hardness minerals. All you have to do is occasionally add salt to allow the resin to regenerate.