Limescale

[2807]

Does anyone have an opinion on whether products such as http://tinyurl.com/ndkljs are effective.

Here in SW France, if I use unfiltered water in my kettle, I have to de-scale it once a week to get rid of the "scum" on the surface of a cup of tea.  Currently I use a brita filter in the fridge which works fine for drinking water, but I cant help thinking what the inside of my hot water cylender & washing machine look like.

Thanks in advance

[djh]

I don't know about that one in particular but we use a system from http://www.pozzani.co.uk/ that is very effective. We use an IX600P together with an HM600 cartridge and tea stays scum-free for 6 months for us. It works out cheaper than jug filters. But we only filter the drinking water tap, not everything. I've found the company very helpful.

[dhaslam]

Do you know if the system uses filters?   If it does it would be more economical to use a salt based system.    One important factor in keeping down  lime build up is to keep the water temperature as low as possible in your DHW cylinder.       

[ericw]

It looks like a poly orthophospate doping system rather than a filter - these generally seem to work - there are several similar ones available on the market.

[Richard Owen]

We use two types of treatment.

The cold water tap to the kitchen sink is unfiltered and untreated. We use that water for cooking and washing up.

Then we have a reverse osmosis filter that has its own tap next to the kitchen sink. We use that water for drinking and watering the carnivorous plants.

The water for the rest of the house goes through one of these. It doesn't remove the scale, it just stops it getting hard by binding a phosphor salt ion to the calcium. It's also pretty good as removing hard scale from systems.

We use this water for showering, hand washing, teeth cleaning, filling the washing machine etc.

Hope this helps

[KLD]

Richard, list,

re: phosphate treatment. Does anybody know how "green" this is? There is some dark memory about phosphate in washing powder and how the household waste water contributed to the over- fertilisation of streams and rivers. If nearly all household water, and thus waste water, was phosphate treated, this would potentially amount to quite a problematic issue. To many ifs and whens in my question, anybody with firm knowledge?

Klaus