Hard water is more than an irritation. Hard water clings to everything leaving clothes looking dingy, plates and glasses dirty and streaked. Even pipes and water heaters and appliances life is reduced.
Soft water makes your hair and skin softer. Your clothes won't lose color nor look dingy and last longer. Soft water removes all soap particles from the water. Household chores are easier, look cleaner and streak-free.
Since the early 1900's, water softener maintenance, repair and installation have been a part of our business. PDM Soft Water Doctors understand water softener operation and can help with any water softener repair, maintenance or installation for your home or business.
Try it for 30 days. if you are dissatisfied with your PDM water softener for any reason within 30 days of your purchase, PDM will refund the purchase price. Try the many benefits of soft water. You can’t lose.
Whether you have well water or city water mineral problems, PDM can help.
Call a family-owned shop with twelve decades of water filtering experience and a loyal client base to add an unexpected softness to your life.
Hard water contains large amounts of calcium and magnesium and sometimes — dissolved from the soil by rainwater. Calcium causes most of the visible water problems you see on sinks, tubs and glasses. Hard water is generally not harmful.
The severity of water hardness is measured by mineral grains per gallon (GPG). Rain water is naturally soft or 0 grains. Anything over 3.5 GPG is considered hard
According to Mayo Clinic... "the amount of sodium a water softener adds to tap water depends on the "hardness" of the water. The best way to decrease your sodium intake is by cutting back on table salt and processed foods. But the water from your tap also may add a significant amount of sodium to your diet."
PDM normally connects your new softener to your hot water supply. That way you reduce the amount of softened water needed. You then can use unsoftened cold water for drinking, cooking and watering plants.
Check your storage tank once a month. Keep the salt level at least half-full at all times for a good supply of soft water. Remember, just because the tank is full of salt doesn't mean your water will be more salty. The tank is simply for salt storage.
Rock salt has a lot of matter that is not water-soluble meaning the softening reservoirs have to be cleaned more often. Rock salt is cheaper than evaporated salt and solar salt, but you'll have more maintenance to do.
Solar salt contains a bit more water-insoluble matter than evaporated salt. If salt usage is low, you could change from one product to another.
If salt usage is high, insoluble salts will build up faster when using solar salt. Evaporated salt requires less maintenance.
A hard crust of salt can form between the water and the salt. Humidity or the wrong salt can cause the salt bridge. Salt won’t dissolve in the water to make brine. Without brine, the resin bed does not regenerate and you will have hard water.
Solution: If your salt/brine tank is full of salt, it is hard to know if you have a salt bridge. Salt may be loose on top, but the salt bridge is hiding below. Take a broom handle, and push it straight down into the salt. If a hard object is felt, you probably hit a salt bridge. Carefully push broom handle into the bridge in several places to break it.
DO NOTE USE SHARP OR POINTED TOOL – you could puncture your tank and cause leak.

Simply put, in a water softener, hard water calcium and magnesium minerals change form by soaking up the salt's sodium.
A water softener collects hardness minerals within its conditioning tank and from time to time flushes them down the drain. The result is no more ring around the tub and spotted glasses, softer skin, cleaner looking fabrics and a whole lot more.
Over
time water mineral scale can form to clog your pipes, restrict water flow
and water pressure can be reduced. Water softener can help remove hard
water scale.
PDM offers special rust filtering too. Call for free advice.


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