The effects of hard water

Prevent limescale buildup

If you live in a hard water area, your home is no doubt suffering from the many effects of limescale, most of which you’re probably not even aware of. Not only can it block your showerhead, stain surfaces and gather around taps, it also looks unsightly and can damage appliances and boilers.

If you live in a hard water area, your home is no doubt suffering from the many effects of limescale, most of which you’re probably not even aware of. Not only can it block your showerhead, stain surfaces and gather around taps, it also looks unsightly and can damage appliances and boilers.

Hard water effects on your bathroom & kitchen

When revamping your bathroom or kitchen, you’re probably guilty of forgetting the most important addition – a water softener.

After refurbishments – no matter how big or small – you may notice everything in your bathroom or kitchen begins to look grubby faster than you expected. This is a classic sign of limescale buildup.

Not only does it mean you need to spend extra time cleaning, but you run the risk of scratching new fixtures like taps and showerheads when scrubbing the crusty substance away.

It almost makes renovating your home a waste of money…

showerhead with limescale
Get rid of years of build up

Limescale removal

Supermarkets stock specialised cleaning products that are powerful enough to remove visible mineral build-ups on surfaces in your bathroom or kitchen, like backsplashes, shower doors and sink taps.

There are also home remedies you can use, like lemon juice, citric acid or vinegar to remove limescale that has already built up around your home

However, these are all temporary solutions to to a bigger problem – tackling the visible signs of hard water damage at the root.

Protect your appliances

Prevent limescale buildup

If you really want to protect the investments you’re making in your home, softening your water is the only long-term, permanent way to prevent limescale.

Water softeners stop the problem before it happens. They remove those limescale-causing minerals from hard water at the entry point to your house.

This means you’ll have soft water running through your home, ensuring your bathroom and kitchen continue to look like new.

running shower head

Did you know?

On average, it takes around 168 showers to clog your showerhead with limescale if you have hard water.

If you shower twice a day, you’ll notice the flow of water drop in less than three months.

And if you have a new shower, it won’t stay new for long!

From initial contact to fitting our new softener, the whole process ran like a swiss watch. The service engineer was a delight and thorough, in-depth knowledge explaining all the future support, afforded by the company: all this for a very competitive price. The whole experience was so smooth. Well done Kinetico. PS, our hard Essex water is now like silk.
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