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Updated: 01/04/2016
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Answer: The function of a water softener is to eliminate both minerals, calcium and magnesium. These two minerals will create hard water resulting in scale buildup. Water softener removes both minerals by introducing salt into the tank and flushing them through the drain line every four days.
Aquasoft Systems
Answer: A water softener works through **ion exchange**; it removes hard minerals like calcium and magnesium from water and replaces them with sodium ions
Water Treatments Des Moines LLC
Answer: It removes calcium and magnesium from your water at the point of entry, providing you with quality soft water for cooking, bathing and laundry. It can be installed in businesses, institutions, hospitals, schools and other enterprises.
Project Clean Water
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Answer: A water softener professionally designed for your specific needs removes hardness, calcium, lime and other impurities, by having the water pass through an ion exchange resin bed. Soft water throughout your home does not leave stains or build up to your internal pipes or fixtures in your home.
WaterPURE
Answer: Water softeners use a resin that creates an exchange of ions in the water and this process changes the hardness of the water. The salt in your water softener is used to create a brine solution that is used during regeneration cycles to recharge the media so that it can continue to remove hardness. Water softeners in general only address hardness and have little impact on any other water issues including sulfur. While there are some resin products that make claims to reduce or eliminate sulfur from your well water these are not nearly as effective as other methods of removing the bacteria that causes the sulfur. The softener salt will have very little effect on salt in your water and if the regeneration occurs at a time when no water is being used it will not be noticeable. The timers on your softener must be accurate to ensure the regeneration occurs in the middle of the night and if your timer is off and the cycle occurs during water use you could see an impact on your water quality.
1 Call Well Service
Answer: Is called ion exchange.
Professsional plumbing and Handyman Services.
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Answer: The resin beads in the water softener system removes calcium, magnesium and other minerals that make the water hard as it goes through the water softener. During the ion exchange process, the hardness ions in the water are replaced with sodium (salt) ions in the resin bed, resulting in soft water. As the resin beads in the water softener become coated with calcium and magnesium ions, their capacity to soften hard water decreases. Every so often, salt water is backwashed over the resin beads sending the hard water ions down the drain and putting the water softener back to a soft water state.
Ohio Valley Pure Water
Answer: USES NATURAL MINERALS AND SAND WHICH IS CLEANED BY POTASSIUM BRINE
J.FINDORAK PLUMBING
Answer: Water softeners work utilizing a ion exchange process.
Executive Water Systems
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Answer: Typically by adding Salt (NaCl)Ions to the water. However, I recommend an Electrical Pulse Energy system that re-ionizes the water through the pipe coming into the home. This keeps the water energized and minerals in suspension. Without the use of chemicals.
Gods Water Boy - Purifying H2O
Answer: It uses a large amount of very tiny little beads called resin. These resin beads act like magnets to ions. Depending on the type of polarity of the ion it will attract either "cat" or "an" ions. So as water passes through the softener the surface area of millions of the resin beads, it pulls out the hard water ions untill the resin beads become fully saturated. At that time the water softener will regenerate. It then pulls brine from the brine tank ( either sodium , or potassium ) and cleans the resin bed . The resin bed is at that time ready to exchange the sodium ions ( or potassium ions ) for magnisium and calcium ions once again.
3 Plumbers & Dad LLC
Answer: A water softener removes positively charged contaminants in the water that causes multiple issues throughout the home
Houston water products
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Answer: We resolve softener related issues with technologies that don't require maintenance so this is not a focus and Softeners exchange minerals (usually sodium) for unwanted particulates.
The Wellness Enterprise, Inc.
Answer: Cleans your tap water
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