Re: CLR - Water Heater

Yeah it's been awhile. I've been posting on a number of web site forums
and that keeps me pretty busy and my internet softener business is
booming on top of that. Plus there aren't many questions here anymore
since many forums have sprung up.

If your resin wasn't replaced with the control valve, it's way past
time, and the softener is probably too small and allowing hard water
through it at peak water use times. The noise in the gas or oil fired
water heater proves that scale was building up in it. Draining and
flushing gas and oil fired heaters doesn't get much if any scale out of
them due to how they apply the heat to the tank; at the bottom and up
the flue pipe. The scale is a solid mass sticking to everything it can,
not pieces like in electric heater where the elements allow it to fall
off with the expansion/contraction of the elements. In some electric
heaters the scale clumps on the elements and doesn't fall off.

Gary
Quality Water Associates
http://www.qualitywaterassociates.com

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