Is your city water this bad?

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imported_blackjetta

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The water here is the worst I've lived with. The image below is the result of leaving a spoon in the sink, with tap water in the spoon allowed to air dry. Possibly more than one dose of water, but still...



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The water also tastes terrible, we have to filter it to stand the taste.



Should I get some kind of filter for my hose when washing my car?
 
You need a home water filtration system. The one i have was 3k, with RO under the sink.



Florida water is pretty horrid also.
 
Psh. That's soft water compared to southern IL (Collinsville address with the city of Troy supplying our water). We have to chew our water without a softener.
 
ninjalogan said:
Psh. That's soft water compared to southern [ours].... We have to chew our water without a softener.
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Heh heh, yeah, mine's a *LOT* worse than that too, and it has big chunks of rust/mineral deposits/etc. too; my filters catch stuff that you can hold in your hand, I'm surprised the previous owner didn't bust a tooth on it.



blackjetta said:
Ican't afford a whole house system right now. I'll be selling the house within a year..
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Some whole-house systems are pretty inexpensive and you can move them to the new house. I took my softener/etc. with me when I did one move, it was cost-effective and it wasn't a big deal. I'd at least look into it as I think it might be feasible compared to getting a temporary fix, at least in the long run.
 
Adamah said:
Blackjetta, where are you located?
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Ridgefield, WA. A quick jog north of Vancouver. City has it's own water supply, and overcharge like crazy for it. Water is cheaper in southern California desert areas than it is here.



If I were to get a whole house system I wouldn't want the system to make it impossible to rinse soap off from showering or hand washing, etc. Some homes with water softeners get like that. Maybe all of them do. I suppose it's better than having water like you guys are describing though. I should read up on the different kinds of systems.



Those 10" canister things look nice for car washing, nearly infinitely reusable with a bag of softener salt.
 
blackjetta said:
If I were to get a whole house system I wouldn't want the system to make it impossible to rinse soap off from showering or hand washing, etc. Some homes with water softeners get like that. Maybe all of them do..
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IME it's just a matter of getting the softener's settings right. Hard water *does* rinse off suds great, but then you have the mineral deposit spotting to deal with. It's possible to strike a good balance where the rinsing isn't a problem.
 
Accumulator said:
IME it's just a matter of getting the softener's settings right. Hard water *does* rinse off suds great, but then you have the mineral deposit spotting to deal with. It's possible to strike a good balance where the rinsing isn't a problem.
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Perhaps one could rinse with hard water, then immediately switch to soft water and re-rinse the hard water off? :) Until I get some kind of soft water system I'm just stabbing in the dark. Is rinsing the shampoo off a car that much more difficult with softened water? Similar to rinsing your hands with it?
 
BlackJetta- I'm pretty confident that you'll find softened water so OK for rinsing that you won't want to bother throwing the bypass lever on the softener. Really, it's just not a problem (at least not for us with our system).



At our previous house my wife once complained that the soft water didn't rinse well; turned out to be a malfunctioning softener. She hasn't complained once here at this house, and she'd let me know if there were a problem that I wasn't noticing. What we both notice is if the softener runs out of salt (well, potassium chloride for the garage one)...when the water gets hard again we both hate it.
 
My friend has well water and his dad has a 2006 corvette with a $5000 paint job. He claims that the sulfur in the water does something to his paint. So he spends another $5000 to have the car repainted and now only washes his car at his parent's house.
 
Thermactor said:
San Diego water is still almost as bad.:tumblewee
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I would never drink unfiltered water here in SD. Bad idea...just bad. You should see our lime build up and mineral deposites in the shower or wherever tap water hits.
 
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