The Truth About Salt Free and No Salt Water Softeners
There is a growing demand for water conditioners that don’t use salt.
Water softeners physically
remove hardness minerals from water, making the water "soft" and eliminating problems with
scale and...
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The Truth About Salt Free and No Salt Water Softeners
There is a growing demand for water conditioners that don’t use salt.
Water softeners physically
remove hardness minerals from water, making the water "soft" and eliminating problems with
scale and white deposits.
Water softeners are automatically cleaned or regenerated in a process
that uses salt water.
So-called salt free water softeners, do not actually remove hardness minerals.
These devices
treat the hardness minerals in water so the minerals cannot precipitate out of solution and cause
scale to build up on surfaces and in pipes.
The result is conditioned water with a lot of the
benefits of softened water, but without the need to use salt.
How Standard Water Softeners and No Salt Water Softeners Work
Water softeners use ion exchange media to remove hardness.
This is a type of synthetic resin
that removes calcium minerals.
Ion exchange resins remove calcium and magnesium ions from
water and attach to the surface of the r
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