Is anyone else feeling guilt over having your stuff delivered?

[LuckyCharms]

16. Thank you for the tips. I appreciate it. Here is

my experience.

Before the water softener, I've had two bathroom faucets where both of the handles blew completely off and hit the ceiling. This caused two floods on my first floor. Flooded all of the hardwood in my kitchen and dining room with a few inches of water. Miraculously, the hardwood mostly survived intact.

I talked to two different master plumbers about what happened. There were two causes:

1) Water pressure from the street line was two high. I cured this by having an expansion tank added to the hot water heater.

2) Washer and mechanism handle compromise due to hard water mineral buildup in the faucets. Granted, they were not the best faucets, but they weren't the cheapest either.

For visible surface areas, I used to have pretty good luck with Lime Away. I would use it regularly on mineral deposits that I could see, and I would remove my aerators and soak them in Lime Away overnight. For my shower heads and hose bibs, I would rig up a container filled with Lime Away and attach the container with rubber bands and let soak. For some reason, in this house, the hard water destroys the faucet guts very quickly.

I do wipe down the shower daily, and weekly I use some spray on stuff that works really well (forget the name...I just did a quick look and can't find the container...If you want to know the name, let me know and I'll go find it).

I'll look into the Lemi-Shine that you mentioned. Even though I probably don't have a real need for it now, I would like to take a look at it. Always good to learn something new, and I may be able to provide that info to other people with hard water problems. That's really interesting about the chalk-like dust. I know someone in San Antonio...I'll mention this next time I talk to her.

I appreciate the time you took to type out your useful post. Have a good day!