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Old October 1, 2016   #1
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Does anyone have this water conditioner ? I have every hard city water that leaves a film on shower doors and clogs the dishwasher. This unit makes the water less "aggressive".

I hit the button on Home Depot's deal of the day, but I wanted some idea of how it may affect seedlings before I decide to keep it. I am hoping it makes calcium available.

The well water at my cabin is hard but plants do better, most likely lack of chlorine. I can bottle that and bring it back to the city if necessary.

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Lisa, I would bottle the well water.
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I agree 100X for plants, but this darn hard water really does a job on clogging up all the appliances and leaves the shower with a film on the door and tiles. I use LemiSHine and the little pods in the dishwasher but it still gets ahead of me. The top rack doesn't get clean and I have to go thru multi cycles.

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Lisa, I understand. The city where I was born has very hard water. This might sound funny, but the water tastes fishy and like rust at the same time. We live 10 miles away and our water is soft.
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That sounds terrible, Robert. You lucked out.

I used to work in Philadelphia and the water tasted like a swimming pool. I lived across the bridge in New Jersey and the water was divine.

The town where my daughter lives has iron water too. Its sad how people have to live with bad and contaminated water when there are treatments available.

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