Posted by Tait Washburn on 16th Aug 2021
As we’ve talked about before on this blog, hard water is an expensive problem to have. Even when a homeowner has decided they need a water softener, there is a second problem that will rear its ugly head. Namely, old-fashioned water softeners use a technology called ion exchange that replaces hard water minerals with sodium or potassium.
That doesn’t seem like a problem at first, but this older technology has some serious problems, especiall… Read more
Posted by Tait Washburn on 7th Apr 2021
Whether it’s a patch of tomatoes, a potted plant in the living room, or a window box of flowers, you can put a lot of work and get a lot of joy out of tending to a little bit of nature all your own. But anyone with hard water issues ought to carefully consider how softening that hard water might affect your plants. The most common water softener systems use salt pellets and a process called ion exchange to soften water, but this process can ha… Read more
Posted by Tait Washburn on 2nd Apr 2021
If you’re looking for hard water solutions or just learning more about your local water laws, you may be surprised to learn that some places have banned salt-based softeners! California law allows cities to ban them, Massachusetts and Texas have laws prohibiting the byproducts of salt systems from going untreated, and Scottsdale, Arizona has banned salt systems outright.
There are a scattering of other cities that have banned salt syst… Read more
