How Does a Water Softener System Work?
The right water treatment systems can immensely improve your quality of life and safeguard your health. One of the most useful systems to consider is a water softening system. This system will take hard water and turn it into soft water. As it does so, it will protect your appliances, as well as your skin and hair.
Hard water can be hard on many things.
A water softening system will remove minerals that make water hard, chiefly calcium and magnesium. Calcium and magnesium can build up inside of appliances like washing machines, causing them to break down. It can also irritate your skin, leaving you itchy day in and day out. Further hair can be turned brittle.
So how does the system actually remove the calcium and magnesium? Hard water is sent to a mineral tank where it is filtered through resin beads. These beads are charged with a sodium ion and have a negative charge. Meanwhile, magnesium and calcium will have a positive charge. As they say, opposites attract, so the magnesium and calcium will bind with the beads, thus removing the minerals from the water.
Ultimately, water treatment systems are actually pretty simple. They are also highly effective and by protecting your appliances, these systems can often pay for themselves. So if you have hard water, it’s time to soften it.
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