Reduce your carbon footprint
You may recycle religiously and use a water filter instead of buying bottled water, but if you live in a hard water area, your home probably isn’t as green as you think.
You may recycle religiously and use a water filter instead of buying bottled water, but if you live in a hard water area, your home probably isn’t as green as you think.
Hard water affects your home appliances which cost money to replace and lead to dried out your skin. It can also result in wasted energy, damaging the environment and increasing your carbon footprint.
Here are just a few ways hard water is making your home less green…
When showering, doing laundry or washing the dishes, you’ll need to use 75% more detergent and soap to ensure proper cleaning with hard water.
Not only are you spending a lot of money replacing these products more frequently than you should have to, you’re also generating more packaging waste and using running water for longer, which is damaging to the environment.
Not only will you use more detergent or soap when showering or cleaning your home, you’ll also be using a lot more running water.
As you spend extra time scrubbing away limescale or trying to work your shampoo into a lather, you’re also wasting running water that the world just can’t spare.
You’ll also find that your water bills are higher than necessary due to using a lot more water than you should be.
When hard water is heated it produces limescale, which reduces the efficiency of your appliances and heating system. Pipes and boilers coated in limescale have to work a lot harder for a longer amount of time to heat your home and running water.
This alone can increase your water heating bills by 12%, as well as cause damage to your heating system and to the planet.
In appliances like kettles and dishwashers, limescale attaches itself to heating elements. They will require a lot more energy to heat the water as they need to heat a layer of hard limescale before being able to heat the water.
When you wash your clothes, hard water will cause more damage to the different types of fabric than soft water.
This means you’ll need to replace clothes more frequently or risk expensive pieces made from more delicate materials be ruined, leading to an increase in household wastage.
This also increases your carbon footprint due to an already high number of clothes being sent to landfill, as well as the transportation costs of clothing being made across the world and shipped to the shops before ending up in your home.
Softening your water is a simple solution if you want to make your home a greener place to live.
By removing limescale minerals from your water, you can ensure that your heating systems, appliances and cleaning products are working as efficiently as possible.
Cut down on your carbon footprint today with a Kinetico water softener.
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