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The unseen and potentially more costly examples of hard water are clogged pipes and failure of central heating elements/pumps.</font></p> <p align="justify" class="normaltxt"><img src="../images/Fuelwastedchart.jpg" alt="fuel Wasted Graph" width="187" height="200" hspace="10" vspace="20" align="left"><br> British Water&#8217;s Quality Group estimates that just 1.5mm of scale reduces the efficiency of your boiler by almost 10%.</p> <p align="justify" class="normaltxt">In addition, you will use fewer detergents, soaps, and other cleaning chemicals as the water will lather using smaller quantities. Softened water will eliminate the build-up of limescale in your pipes and on the heating elements found in dishwashers and washing machines, leading to fewer engineer call-outs and spare parts.</p> <p align="justify" class="normaltxt"><b><br> <br> The benefits to Health</b></p> <p align="justify" class="normaltxt">Once installed the benefits of your water softener will be immediate: <br> your shampoo will lather up really easily when washing your hair and will leave your hair feeling and looking much better;<br> softened water can leave your skin feeling smooth, glowing and healthy;<br> softened water can clear up minor skin problems such as irritation and dryness.</font></p> <p align="justify" class="normaltxt"><b>How do water softeners work?</b></p> <p align="justify" class="normaltxt">Water softeners use a very simple chemical reaction to gently soften your water. It works by forcing hard water into a tank of special resin. As the hard water passes over the resin a process of ion exchange occurs and this causes the water to become soft.</p> <p align="justify" class="normaltxt">After a while the resin becomes exhausted and has to be regenerated. This regeneration is achieved by flushing the resin with salt water. 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