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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Anna K. Cottrell

Is hard water ruining your plumbing? Here's how to fix it once and for all

Modern and luxury bathroom design with shiny gold colored rain shower, shower head on slide bar on beautiful green granite wall and creeper plant with sunlight from window for home interior decoration, architecture and design background.

Hard water can be bad news for a homeowner. The telltale sign of hard water in your home is limescale deposits on your bathroom and kitchen fixtures. These manifest as unsightly stains – which you most likely have spent many hours removing over and over again.

But the problem is much bigger than just the aesthetics: hard water is hard on pipes, corroding and clogging them over time and causing leaks and breakages. Hard water can also mess with your appliances, from washing machines to tea kettles, causing buildup in pumping mechanisms and heating elements. 

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