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Burwoods
Jun 07, 2014Explorer
Rmack1 wrote:
Here's another little item you probably never dreamed you would have to worry about. Water softening devices.
I do most of my RV trips in Southern/Central California or Arizona The water near the Colorado river is ultra-hard. It's calcium/magnesium/iron soup. It overwhelmed my hot water heaters anode rod, and I wound up with huge whitish deposits clogging all my plumbing.
They are expensive, two or three hundred and more, but they regenerate with common table salt. And they work great.
Now that I think of it, even when we were boiling water in the tea kettle it was getting that white deposit build up. Oh the money train never stops does it...lol.
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