We have hard water here and as you’ll see from the attached picture it can cause corrosion and buildup on shut off valves. Some plumbers have suggested we get a filtration unit to prevent this sort of thing and we are also going to have some stuff replaced but the plumber that just came in said that even if we got a serious filtration unit it wouldn’t solve that problem which surprised me. Do you have any experience with this sort of thing? Did a particular filter or softener solve your problem? If we get a softener it would probably be not salt-based. There are a lot of options we’re considering. Aquasana.
My town has hard water and we’ve always had a water softener. The plumber we use definitely seems to think it’s key to avoiding mineral buildup like your picture.
Not familiar with a filter for hard water.
The softener would deal with the mineral buildup. A separate filtration system would remove most of the chlorine which greatly affects the taste.
Where I once lived, we had a water softener. Giant vat full of salts bought at the store.
Did you have something installed in your water line?
Yeah the water comes in from the street to my basement, then through the softener and then through all the pipes in the house
We have a water softener also to prevent mineral buildup. We also have a bad sulfur smell and have a carbon filter system to take the smell out. So our water comes into the house, through the water softener, through the carbon filter, then to the rest of the house.
I am supposedly in the blue to orange area. I have never really noticed mineral buildups on kitchen gadgets like the electric water kettle, although I have found this accumulating in the same water kettle within a week when we have taken it on vacation.
My grandparents had a water softener and I found handwashing annoying at their house as the soap was difficult to remove.
We’re in the green (hardest water) on that chart. Have a softener in the garage and a filter under the kitchen sink. Agree about the rinsing - the soft water feels somehow slipperier.