SPOTS SPOTS SPOTS Hard Water Question!

[LORENSWIFE]

Dear BS Buds

We are on a well, it is drilled to around 100 feet but the water table is only about 10 feet down. The well water is very hard, tons of calcium build up on anything you get water on. Dishes, cars etc. It wrecks coffee makers, clogs shower heads. I HATE IT!
I am looking into the magentic things that suspend the calcium so that it moves through the system instead of sticking to the pipes, glass, paint etc. Does anyone have any experience with trying to get rid of hard Water?

Please help!
Calcified in San Diego

[A/Fuel]

I suppose moving away from San Diego is out of the question.

[LORENSWIFE]

After last winter I would be afraid to live anywhere back east, you are all braver men than I Gunga Din!

[SuperBuickGuy]

we have magnesium in our well water, and to get it out of the system is $40,000 installed, and about a thousand a year in maintenance .... that said, sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be cheaper to get the filtration system to remove it....

the very best thing to do, is remove those stupid water-saving devices that come in all appliances (all of them reduce the flow by reducing the opening size).... take them out and you'll have less trouble with buildup. Also avoid any device which says "water saving".... (says the guy who's replacing his front loading washer because it's clogged)

good luck
- the 40k is for the neighborhood of 8 houses on a community well -

[LORENSWIFE]

We pull all of that water saving crap out of faucets whenever we can. I periodically go around and scrub everything with "The Works" which is some kind of Acid actually for toilet bowls. When that stuff hits a calcium chunk it starts bubbling and fuming, soon the calcium is gone, but it is very caustic, sulfuric acid or something. Then I poke out the holes in the showerheads and the faucet screens. We have lived in this house for 20 years, there are 4 bathrooms and the ones that get used the most for showers or baths seem to have a water pressure problem now.
It does seem with all the rain we got this year that if you leave ice cubes in a glass of water we are getting less powder in the bottom of the glass after the ice melts but that just may be because there is more water in the aquafer? maybe? There have been a few very nice horse ranches built in the past few years that are upstream from us and like their rances to look like Kentucky with lots of green grass...they pull more than their share of water out of the ground so I think that may raise the calcium count when the water table gets low...
I want to try the magnet things, has anyone ever tried those?
Gail

[milner351]

Have you looked into water softeners? We had a kinetico system in Ohio and it worked very well - it was NOT the type that required salt pellets or blocks, as I recall they were around $2500 or so for a twin tank system installed.

That was to deal with high iron - not calcium - but I imagine calcium can be dealt with in similar ways.

Look up kinetico on the interwebs and take a look - not sure if there are dealers in your area.

One great thing about living in metro detroit - excellent city water - I don't miss dealing with well and septic.

[LORENSWIFE]

I will look that up!
I do love the well because our water bill is so cheap, may $15 a month, we are actually on sewer so that is good.

[squirrel]

i'd look into a water softener first.

We have sort of hard water here, it does build up white crap, but I guess we're just not so picky about how our faucets look.

[Barry Donovan]

calcium flowing from underground in san diego.

don't worry about it, it will be over soon enough...after the cavern caves in and the land falls in the ocean.

[LORENSWIFE]

Squirrel
I am not that picky about how it looks but it really starts clogging things up even the house pipes, then the water flow is so low it is hard to get the soap rinsed out of my luxuriously long hair!

Boxer
Am hoping we don't fall into the ocean! We don't live on the coast but about 2000' up in the foothills I am speculating on beach front property, we are on the wrong side of the San Andreas fault though. yikes!
~Gail

[antmnte]

We too have hard water (Well) the best thing here for it is a water softner. We have a company called Culligan that sells and
services them (softners) . I have seen other systems that I am sure work well too. Sears sells them as well.

[Monk]

I've had several water softeners over the years........couple of years
back installed a Water Boss.
Uses half the water a normal one does for recharge and happy as
hell with it.

I've been on wells before......water softener is a must.

Given all the new upgrades in plumbing fittings (Sharkbite) you could install
it yourself.
One note: If you're on a septic system you'll want the dis charge water
to go elsewhere.

[LORENSWIFE]

We are not on a Septic System (yay) been there done that!
I really want a magic bullet that will just fix the problem with no maintenance on my part, I know that is wrong but it is what I want! Abunch of you are really good at electronics and chemicals and mineral stuff...do you think this actually works?

does anyone have one of these ?
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[milner351]

Gail -
That thing trips my "snake oil meter" I'd proceed with caution. Jim could probably make something like that for you out of robot parts and a trip to radio shack for about $20.

[Monk]

Gail -
That thing trips my "snake oil meter" I'd proceed with caution. Jim could probably make something like that for you out of robot parts and a trip to radio shack for about $20.

Ditto what Milner said

Get ya a good water softener and call it a day.