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Would you live in a hard water area?
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Sorry! A poor attempt at humour. I quoted a post with a strange typo in it. Perhaps best to delete it
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PeterY
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Living in The Chilterns it's very hard. Soft water takes some getting used to.
Peter Mugridge
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Well, yes, but that wasn't what I asked. I was asking if the cost of buying Calgon or similar products all the time is actually more expensive than not using it and instead replacing a washing machine more frequently?
nlogax
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It doesn't really strike me with the same sense of fear as other questions I've seen.
'Would you live on the slopes of a volcano?'
'Would you live atop a fracking site?'
'Would you live on a crumbling cliff top?'
The fear of having to invest in the occasional Brita filter isn't one that's put me off living in London..tbh I have little choice in the matter. Plus, hard water tastes good. You soft northerners
Bletchleyite
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It doesn't really strike me with the same sense of fear as other questions I've seen.
'Would you live on the slopes of a volcano?'
'Would you live atop a fracking site?'
'Would you live on a crumbling cliff top?'
The fear of having to invest in the occasional Brita filter isn't one that's put me off living in London..tbh I have little choice in the matter. Plus, hard water tastes good. You soft northerners
People pay good money for hard water - that's what mineral water is.
krus_aragon
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Manufacturers of bitter beer pay good money for it too. There's a reason Burton's famous for its bitter. (The minerals they remove to make other alcoholic beverages are sold to companies elsewhere to use in their bitters.)
eMeS
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I installed one of the magnetic field softeners around the pipe to my cold water kitchen tap, and thus I have softened water for coffee. At first I was sceptical about it working, but after a few months I noticed that the scale in my kettle was dissolving away.
Milton Keynes is a hard water area.
Milton Keynes is a hard water area.
Puffing Devil
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Same here and I really dislike showering with soft water - the soap never seems to come off.
Bletchleyite
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I've got one of those and it does heavily reduce the amount by which the limescale sticks - in the shower it still builds up on the glass, but it wipes off with a sponge, whereas without it took some scrubbing to get it off. It sounded far fetched but it does appear to work.
IanD
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The good old Burton snatch. Lovely.
DarloRich
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eMeS
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Mine was - came in a plastic case, with nylon self-locking strap fixing. From distant memory (decades ago), the effect doesn't last too long, so it's not worth using one before a storage tank.
Bletchleyite
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I've got an electromagnetic one: http://www.eddy.uk.com/. The website looks like it's a load of rubbish, but it does actually seem to work.
Worth noting that as I said it doesn't reduce scale but does seem to reduce its tendency to attach to things so it's easier to wipe off with a cloth or sponge rather than needing to scrub.
A lot of people think they are quackery, though...
J-2739
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Er, how do you know if you live in a hard water area?
DarloRich
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is the element in your kettle coated in a flaky white covering?
We have a proper softener installed which covers everything except the kitchen cold tap. I didn’t want to because of the cost of both installation and ongoing. However:
1) I now do not need to scrub and descale every tap / waste fitting in the house every few weeks
2) we use less than half the amount of detergent than previously
3) no need to descale the washing machine or dishwasher
4) saving a fortune in detergent and descaling products
5) the bathrooms look consistently more sparkly
Taking into account the socio-economic value of my time saved, and the ongoing financial benefit, installing a softener seems to have a BCR of about 1.6, which represents medium value for money. However when I take into account the Wider Economic Benefit of much reducing nagging about cleaning, the BCR rises to a level that can only be described as ‘terrific’.
1) I now do not need to scrub and descale every tap / waste fitting in the house every few weeks
2) we use less than half the amount of detergent than previously
3) no need to descale the washing machine or dishwasher
4) saving a fortune in detergent and descaling products
5) the bathrooms look consistently more sparkly
Taking into account the socio-economic value of my time saved, and the ongoing financial benefit, installing a softener seems to have a BCR of about 1.6, which represents medium value for money. However when I take into account the Wider Economic Benefit of much reducing nagging about cleaning, the BCR rises to a level that can only be described as ‘terrific’.
You know while it wouldn't stop me moving, it'd genuinely make me a little upset to move to somewhere where the water is less tasty, which I think is generally the case in hard water areas. I dont want to overstate how important it'd be, but it would make me sad for a little while.
the sniper
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Completely agree, it can feel inconceivably different in this regard.
thenorthern
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I live in the area with some of the hardest water in the country so much so they don't add fluorine to the water here as the levels are already very high which for some reason grabs the attention of David Icke as he thinks fluorine is added to water as a mind control technique and where I live we aren't supposedly mind controlled. 
There are annoying things like when people visit they aren't used to the taste of the water and say it tastes funny also the kettle quickly gets filled up with limescale but really these aren't major issues as there are more important things to worry about.
Interestingly though my area has the cheapest water prices in the country and more than half of all beer in the country is made in two nearby places because hard water is good for beer making so I suppose there are plus points.
There are annoying things like when people visit they aren't used to the taste of the water and say it tastes funny also the kettle quickly gets filled up with limescale but really these aren't major issues as there are more important things to worry about.
Interestingly though my area has the cheapest water prices in the country and more than half of all beer in the country is made in two nearby places because hard water is good for beer making so I suppose there are plus points.
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