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17. What's your water like?

Reply to Shoe Horn (Reply #12)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 05:21 PM

Dec 2011

I wonder if the hardness of the water has anything to do with the poor performance you see. We have relatively soft water -i.e., low mineral content - and don't seem to have problems.

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