How to Remove Limescale

If you live in a hard water area, ridding your home of limescale can seem like a never-ending battle. But few homeowners actually realise just how these mineral deposits can damage their households, costing them money and wasting their valuable time.

Here is everything you need to know about this home invader.

You probably know what limescale looks like after seeing it around your taps or losing a few kettles to that furry substance, but what exactly causes it? Here’s the science bit… Rain water is naturally soft when it falls from the sky, but once it reaches the ground, it then passes through numerous types of rock like chalk and limestone.

Here, it picks up calcium and magnesium minerals, which work together to change the water’s composition. As soon as you heat this now-hard water at home, either in an appliance or through your heating system, those minerals turn into limescale and cling to whatever they can.

Aside from the endless number of hours you’ll spend cleaning time, homeowners often think these hard water deposits aren’t negatively affecting their households. This is rarely the case.

Below are just some of the ways in which limescale can make your life more difficult.