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RayH · 09-15-2006, 02:57 AM

Ok, take this for what its worth. In a weak moment about 8 years ago, I bought a set of magnets that clamp to the pipe. The kit came with a set that go on the water line coming in from the well and a set for the hot line from the water heater.
We built about 8 years ago and we have hard water. Our neighbors have sodium softeners and still go through water heater elements and coffee makers. We are on the same heater element, coffee maker, dishwasher and only on our second showerhead. Every once in a long while I have to clean the lime off of the screens in the faucets. 8 years and havent had a hard water issue. Im as skeptical as the next guy, and more than most, so I wont go as far as say the magnets have done anything. I will go as far as say that we have had nothing on our water system except those magnets, no softener, no filter, just straight out of the well, for 8 years, and we have had less hard water issues than our neighbors. Is it because of the magnets, I dont know. Ive often wanted to remove them for a period of time to see if we start having problems but that seems kinda dumb. I have no plans to remove them or replace them with anything else.
Oh, something else, you wont be able to test to see if the magnets work or not because they supposedly dont remove any of the hard elements, they just change their chemical characteristics so that they dont "stick" to heating elements and pipes and so forth, they just pass right through. the instructions that came with my magnets stated that I would have to clean the faucet screens off daily for about a week after installing the magnets because they would cause scale that had already formed on elements and pipes to break loose. To my surprise, that did actually happen. For a couple days after installing them, we had to clean the screens daily. Go figure!
I would actually like to see some other people try these and come back with an honest appraisal just to see if there is actually something to it.
My honest appraisal is that 8 years, we have magnets and fewer hard water issues than our neighbors without magnets. Thats as far as I can go. I guess put me in the same catagory as phil, satisfied, surprised and still skeptical.

09-15-2006, 02:57 AM	#12 (permalink)
RayH Banned Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Falling Waters, WV Posts: 719	Re: Got hard water? Ok, take this for what its worth. In a weak moment about 8 years ago, I bought a set of magnets that clamp to the pipe. The kit came with a set that go on the water line coming in from the well and a set for the hot line from the water heater. We built about 8 years ago and we have hard water. Our neighbors have sodium softeners and still go through water heater elements and coffee makers. We are on the same heater element, coffee maker, dishwasher and only on our second showerhead. Every once in a long while I have to clean the lime off of the screens in the faucets. 8 years and havent had a hard water issue. Im as skeptical as the next guy, and more than most, so I wont go as far as say the magnets have done anything. I will go as far as say that we have had nothing on our water system except those magnets, no softener, no filter, just straight out of the well, for 8 years, and we have had less hard water issues than our neighbors. Is it because of the magnets, I dont know. Ive often wanted to remove them for a period of time to see if we start having problems but that seems kinda dumb. I have no plans to remove them or replace them with anything else. Oh, something else, you wont be able to test to see if the magnets work or not because they supposedly dont remove any of the hard elements, they just change their chemical characteristics so that they dont "stick" to heating elements and pipes and so forth, they just pass right through. the instructions that came with my magnets stated that I would have to clean the faucet screens off daily for about a week after installing the magnets because they would cause scale that had already formed on elements and pipes to break loose. To my surprise, that did actually happen. For a couple days after installing them, we had to clean the screens daily. Go figure! I would actually like to see some other people try these and come back with an honest appraisal just to see if there is actually something to it. My honest appraisal is that 8 years, we have magnets and fewer hard water issues than our neighbors without magnets. Thats as far as I can go. I guess put me in the same catagory as phil, satisfied, surprised and still skeptical.