The scale or mineral deposits from hard water and soap scum often leave annoying spots on shower doors, dishes, and fixtures that are cumbersome and tough to remove. Here are a few tips that might make the laborious task of removing hard water spots a little easier.
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Letting the calcium or hardness level in your spa get too high or too low can wreak havoc with your water chemistry, and can even damage your hot tub and its components. You need to learn how to keep it just right.
The amount of both calcium and magnesium dissolved in the water is called total hardness. Why is this important? Well, some water test strips and kits only measure total hardness, and not calcium hardness alone.
Test Strips: This is the quickest and easiest hot tub water testing method. Just make sure you use strips that include total hardness.Liquid Test Kit: A little fancier and slightly more labor-intensive than test strips, but sometimes more accurate. Again, ensure the kit tests for calcium or total hardness.Hot Tub Supply Store: Any store that sells hot tubs and spa supplies should be able to perform a water test for you. We recommend having the water professionally tested at least twice a year.
Our Pearl OneFlow is a high performance anti-scale drinking water filter system that prevents scale by transforming dissolved hardness minerals into harmless, inactive microscopic crystal particles. These particles make their way through plumbing systems without latching onto pipes, fixtures, valves or heating elements.
Hard water is usually defined as water, which contains a high concentration of calcium and magnesium ions. However, hardness can be caused by several other dissolved metals; those forms divalent or multivalent cations, including aluminum, barium, strontium, iron, zinc, and manganese. Normally, monovalent ions such as sodium and potassium do not cause hardness. These divalent cations have a propensity to come together with anions in the water to form stable salts. The type of anion found in these salts distinguishes between the two types of hardness-carbonate and non-carbonate hardness [Table 1].
Choosing a shower coating means that mineral and soap residue are depostied on the surface of the coating, instead of the glass itself. This leads to a much easier periodic removal of hard water marks and soap residue on a coated shower.
A coated shower does not need abrasive cleaners to remove hard water marks. Instead, the manufacturers recommended using only white vinegar and a soft sponge to clean coated glass. You can dilute the vinegar, but undiluted vinegar is best to remove hard water marks on a coated shower, when they occur.
The first step to combating hard water problems is to test your water for hardness and measure its hardness level. You can achieve this by implementing a hard water test so you can determine if your water is hard, how hard it is, and the best treatment method to use. The most accurate hard water test is done through an independent laboratory, using a water sample you provide. However, a comprehensive water test kit can be pricey and can take a while for the results.
One of the easiest and quickest options for a hard water test is the Soapsuds Test. To carry out this test, you need a clear, clean, empty glass or plastic bottle with a tight-fitting cap. Fill the bottle about one-third with water straight from your tap, add a few drops of pure liquid soap and shake vigorously for about 15 seconds. Next, set the bottle down and observe the solution.
If there are no fluffy bubbles in the water or it appears cloudy and/or milky, your water is hard. Soft water would foam up quickly and create bubbles, and the resting water at the bottom would be clear. You have to keep in mind, however, that some soaps are formulated with detergents, so they lather regardless of your water type. For the best results, use a basic soap, such as Castile. Soaps like this one have no dyes, detergents or perfumes.
A drawback of this option is that the reports might not necessarily reflect the water quality directly at your tap because the water is tested before leaving the treatment facility and can pick up impurities from the piping on its way to your home. Despite that, water quality reports can provide a good idea of the water hardness in your area.
A home water test kit is the simplest (and probably the best) way to check your water for hardness minerals. A regular kit usually includes water test strips and a color chart. You can purchase a test kit from a local home improvement store or a reputable online retailer. We offer a premium line of water test kits that tests only for specific contaminants as well as overall water quality, pH and safety.
To use the strip, fill a container with water from your tap, then immerse the test strip in the water. Next, compare the resulting color of the strip to the color chart provided with the kit. Each color on the chart corresponds to the hardness of your water, with results measured in grains per gallon (gpg). The instructions will tell you how hard your water is based on the result.
Most water hardness tests report hard water levels in grains per gallon (g). However, some laboratories use milligrams per Liter (mg/L), or parts per million (ppm). One part per million is simply stating that out of one million units, one unit is a hard water mineral. Grains per gallon is the equivalent of one dry grain of wheat or about 1/7000 of a pound. It takes 17.1 ppm to equal to 1 gpg.
If your hard water test displays or produces the result in parts per million or milligrams per liter, you can take the total hardness level and divide it by 17.1 to determine the hardness in grains per gallon. For instance, if your hard water test shows 182 mg/L, you have 10.6 gpg. You can convert mg/L or ppm by dividing the total hardness by 17.1 to get the grains per gallon hardness.
The U.S. Geological Survey uses the following scale to determine the hardness of the water. Note the value of the calcium carbonate in your water quality report or your test kit results and compare it to the scale below.
The salt-free alternatives, however, offer a more environmentally-friendly way of controlling water hardness. These softeners require no electricity and produce no wastewater. They soften water by crystallizing the hard water minerals so they no longer stick to surfaces, thus reducing scaling. Unlike salt-based water softeners, the non-salt variants do not require you to recharge the system with salt, which significantly reduces maintenance costs.
Hard water is no stranger to many households in the U.S., damaging almost anything that it comes into contact with. But by testing your water with the three easy methods above, you can stop hard water in its tracks and remove it from your home before it does any damage. Springwell Water Systems is here to help you achieve that and more, so please reach out to today to get started. 2ff7e9595c
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