{"id":25118,"date":"2021-08-11T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/?p=25118"},"modified":"2021-08-12T18:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:16:59","slug":"the-5-benefits-of-improving-your-home-water-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/the-5-benefits-of-improving-your-home-water-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Benefits of Improving Your Home Water Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hard water has minerals causing a buildup in your appliances and pipes, costing your heavy repair bills. It also hinders the flow of water through pipes requiring higher pump pressure. Hence, more energy will be required to keep water cold or hot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The buildup can also harm your water-based appliances, resulting in higher replacement or maintenance costs for your washing machines, dishwasher, geyser, ice makers, and coffee machines, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s even worse\u2014hard water is also bad for your hair and skin! Getting a water softening solution can highly improve your home\u2019s water quality. Here are 5 benefits of doing so;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>1. Saves money<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water softening saves you money on plumbing, replacement or maintenance of appliances, and utility bills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Plumbing:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The minerals in hard water stick to form a buildup that clogs your pipes. This can cause serious damage to your plumbing, requiring costly repair work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Appliances:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scale buildup can hamper an appliance\u2019s efficiency and performance while also shortening its lifespan. Installing adequate water softening or conditioning solutions can prevent this and help you save up on replacement and repair costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Gas or electric bills:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a clogged pipe,\u00a0 there\u2019s less space for water to pass. Higher water pressure is required to make the water push through, using up more energy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clogged pipes also fail to conduct heat efficiently, which means you\u2019ll need to turn up the water heater to compensate. This results in a much more expensive electric or gas bill which can be avoided with a water softening system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For extra savings, go for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/waterfilterguru.com\/best-salt-free-water-softener\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">salt <\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/waterfilterguru.com\/best-salt-free-water-softener\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free water softeners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as they work without electricity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>2. Softer skin and cleaner hair<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soft water has a variety of skin and hair health benefits. It can also reverse some of the damage caused by hard water due to natural oil loss in hair and skin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Skin:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Showering and bathing in hard water can harm your skin\u2019s health as it strips away its natural oils. It can cause itchy, dry, and irritated skin. With fewer minerals in soft water, your skin finds it easier to pick and hold moisture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Hair:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soft water helps in balancing the hair\u2019s pH level. On the other hand, hard water dries it out, dulls its colour, and makes it feel frizzy and brittle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whole showering experience can also benefit from soft water. With clogged pipes, your shower\u2019s water pressure declines. It makes it harder to rinse away the soap off your body or hair, which isn\u2019t ideal for hair and skin health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>3. Softer, cleaner, brighter clothes<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washing clothes with soft water preserves their new and fresh feel while hard water does the opposite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soft water lathers up easier, and deeper lather results in more effective cleaning. colouring clothes in hard water means the mineral content in them will leave deposits on the fabric. Eventually, this causes their colour to start fading. Whites become dingy, and brighter shades become dull.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With soft water, you won\u2019t need to use as much detergent or fabric softeners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>4. Clean dishes<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone living in an area with hard water will tell you how hard it is to keep dishes clean. Regardless of which detergents or soaps you use or how many times you try washing them, your silverware and glass will be left with a cloudy appearance upon drying off. That\u2019s because of the minerals in hard water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A water softener can address this problem\u2019s root cause by improving the water quality at your home. It gets rid of the minerals to make sure your dishes don\u2019t have any residue on them when they dry off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, as soaps work much better with soft water, you\u2019ll have a lot more lather to work with as you do the dishes, enhancing cleaning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>5. Save time on cleaning\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we\u2019ve discussed above, cleaning is a nightmare with hard water. Besides, you also need to clean much more <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">frequently<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if your house has hard water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scrubbing the walls due to a buildup of soap scum and chalky lime, constantly having to re-wash your laundry and the dishes, cleaning showers, faucets, sinks. Ugh!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As soft water dissolves soap well, you won\u2019t find any dried-up soap scum gathering up anywhere in the bathroom or kitchen\u2014voila!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Ref number: THSI-2378<\/h6>\n<div class=\"reference-field\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard water has minerals causing a buildup in your appliances and pipes, costing your heavy repair bills. It also hinders the flow of water through pipes requiring higher pump pressure. 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