Hard Water Causes Problems For Plumbing Pipes
- Date: 2009-03-17 - Word Count: 416
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With most states, we as citizens live and deal with hard water and the problems that come from it. Hard water does many things that will cripple almost things it touches, it is not picky. It will also cause us to have a bad hair day, what we like to call it, and even make our skin very itchy. This hard water will make our water pipes to become slower as the hard water deposits collect on the sides of the, lines. Over time this will make the huge water line hole become so small that nothing will be able to get through it.
When this happens, the clogged pipe can break under the pressure from the water. If the pipe is close to the surface of the ground, you will have a beautiful water fountain. If the pipe is under several feet of dirt you will usually end up with a gaping hole as all of this dirt and mud give way. When this happens you will see a lot of big machinery being brought in to clean up this mess and it is a big mess. Not only will they have to fix the pipes that broke, but if there are any buildings around this spot they could fall in also.
We have heard of several of these situations happening in our bigger cities. The more people there are in this country, the more water pipes that we are going to have to run. We need to start replacing these old pipes or we are just putting problems on problems. The damages from these old pipes breaking actually cost us more than replacing them. Our states keep saying that they do not have the money to fix these pipes and us as tax payers are giving all we can.
As a home owner, the best that we can do to protect the pipes in our home is to install a water softener so that the water that goes to our appliances and our bathrooms will not cause so much buildup of the elements that are in the water. It will make our appliances last longer and require less cleaning in our bathrooms and kitchens where water is used on a daily basis. No one likes all the scrubbing that is required to remove hard water stains. Cleaners can be bought to make the removal of them easier, but why have to do that when a water softener can help prevent the build up in the first place?
When this happens, the clogged pipe can break under the pressure from the water. If the pipe is close to the surface of the ground, you will have a beautiful water fountain. If the pipe is under several feet of dirt you will usually end up with a gaping hole as all of this dirt and mud give way. When this happens you will see a lot of big machinery being brought in to clean up this mess and it is a big mess. Not only will they have to fix the pipes that broke, but if there are any buildings around this spot they could fall in also.
We have heard of several of these situations happening in our bigger cities. The more people there are in this country, the more water pipes that we are going to have to run. We need to start replacing these old pipes or we are just putting problems on problems. The damages from these old pipes breaking actually cost us more than replacing them. Our states keep saying that they do not have the money to fix these pipes and us as tax payers are giving all we can.
As a home owner, the best that we can do to protect the pipes in our home is to install a water softener so that the water that goes to our appliances and our bathrooms will not cause so much buildup of the elements that are in the water. It will make our appliances last longer and require less cleaning in our bathrooms and kitchens where water is used on a daily basis. No one likes all the scrubbing that is required to remove hard water stains. Cleaners can be bought to make the removal of them easier, but why have to do that when a water softener can help prevent the build up in the first place?
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