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Clack WS1 Deluxe Metered Water Softener
- Industry-leading Clack WS1 Valve for easy parts availability
- Gets rid of Calcium staining making your home easier to keep clean
- Perfect if on a budget and looking for a standard-efficiency water softener
- Regenerates with soft water for better efficiency
- Metered Softener to save salt and money by using very little salt
- Cleans itself (regenerates) only when necessary
- Power Cell backup retains time during power interruptions for eight hours
- Removes clear water iron up to 1.0 ppm before you need a dedicated iron filter
- Convenient two-piece design for easy cleaning
- Black Neoprene Sweat Jacket available to minimize damage from sweating
- Long-lasting Black Brine Tank included
- Available from 30,000 to 90,000 grain capacity
- Convenient Bypass valve included for flexibility
- Electronically controlled valve to save you money through efficiency and reliability
- Manufactured by Clack Corporation Distributed by Waterite Technologies Inc. A Canadian Company
- Flow rates of up to 27 GPM and is compatible with 1″ plumbing
- Tech can disassemble Valve in 5 minutes, for easy service to save your family money
- Valves use no nuts, bolts, screws, or springs for easy service & maintenance
Affordable Water Softener Systems
Dry itchy skin, lime scale build-up, scale forming in the kettle as well as a ring around the inside of the bathtub is caused by hard water. Affordable Water has premier water-softening equipment and solutions for any of your water-softening problems.
Just starting to explore your options or need some service on your water softener our crew of water treatment specialists are here to help you.
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Benefits of Using a Water Softener
Do you want to have your appliances last longer, circumvent plumbing obstructions or just make your cleaning a little easier; soft water will do this for you.
Hard water causes mineral buildup in your plumbing pipes and fixtures which is what causes low water pressure and eventually will clog the pipes. Soft water removes the minerals that cause hardness (calcium & magnesium), so there is no mineral buildup in the pipes and the water can flow without obstruction.
Is hard water an issue for your home or Business?
The quality of the water in your area, very much depends on what’s in earth it comes from. Minerals like iron, manganese, fertilizers, and pesticides along with a hundred other variables make up the configuration of your groundwater.
Water softeners are made to remove the calcium and magnesium in your water which they do extremely well. What a lot of folks don’t realize is that they also can remove small amounts of iron, chlorine, and organic compounds. Although hard water is very destructive and can cause a lot of damage it is not considered life-threatening, just very expensive if left untreated.
Do you have skin that is dry, itchy, appliances with limescale build-up, and fixtures showing signs of hard water decay? If you’re seeing some of these things and would like help in fixing them, talk to the water treatment specialists at Affordable Water Treatments or visit our website at www.affordablewatertreatments.com for more information.
Affordable Water Treatments does not believe in one size fits all when it comes to water treatment. Whether you are looking for a residential, commercial, or industrial application every water filter is custom-made to suit your situation.
Our water softeners are meter initiated (on demand) and available on both our residential and commercial units reducing the salt usage of the water softener.
At Affordable Water we use environmentally friendly equipment. This ensures we can protect your family and your investment, as well as protect the environment for future generations.
We are proud to serve, Oakbank, Selkirk, Beausejour, Brokenhead, East St. Paul, Headingley, Macdonald, Niverville, Ritchot, Rockwood, Rosser, Selkirk, Springfield, St. Andrews, St. Clements, St. François Xavier, Ste. Anne, Steinbach, Stonewall, Taché, West St. Paul, Winnipeg, and surrounding areas.
Use A Water Softener for the Shower
Did you know that hard water can cause enough clogging in about 18 to 24 months to cause your water flow from a shower head to be reduced by up to 75%? Not only that the hard water decay that will be present on your fixtures could reduce the fixtures life by up to 75%.
If you factor that in with what hard water does to your skin, dull stiff hair after washing, the extra soap it takes to wash, and the scum it leaves on bathtubs and showers it’s not only destructive it’s downright annoying.
Soft water will keep your pipes clean, your fixtures looking like new, and your skin and hair soft and manageable.
Does Hard Water Effect Your Water Heater?
With all the problems hard water is causing in the rest of your home let’s not forget the hot water heater.
Using Hard water in a hot water tank can:
Shorten Its Lifespan
When calcium and magnesium are introduced into the hot water tank they build up on your heating elements and become a lime scale coating in time. When this happens in the hot water tank it not only costs you more to heat your water but cuts the lifespan of the water tank by up to 40%.Limescale buildup in the hot water tank can also cause a leak or the inner lining to fail.
Inhibits Performance
Your water heater will not only take more time to heat up with the limescale buildup but your capacity is also reduced leaving you with less hot water than you may need.
Maintenance Time Increased
Water heater maintenance is something you have to assess based on usage and tank size. The rule of thumb is that you flush out your hot water tank about once a year to clear any bits of debris that may have settled in the bottom.
However, in the studies that have been conducted, it has been determined that if you use hard water that isn’t treated, you will have to flush your tank 2-3 times as often if you don’t have soft water.
How About Tankless Water Heaters?
Tankless water heaters are probably the most vulnerable to hard water. Because of the way they operate the lime scale buildup is about 4 times faster than a regular hot water tank. If you don’t have soft water don’t consider a tankless hot water heater, you will be in for one repair after another diminishing any savings you might have expected.
Hard Water Makes Your Laundry Difficult
When you first do a load of laundry you expect that the sheets and clothing be clean looking, as well as soft, and will have a fresh clean smell to them similar to the detergent you were using. Most of us expect that heavily stained or foul-smelling items have to be pre-treated but other than that a washing machine should do the trick.
However, if your water is hard and has not been softened your experience may be somewhat different. Instead of soft and fluffy you find your laundry is stiff and rough feeling, and that your staining and foul-smelling items have not cleaned as well as you might have expected. In fact, it even been noted that laundry done in hard water will have faded colors after washing and tend to wear out in about half the time as clothing done in soft water.
Calcium and Magnesium are the minerals in your water that make it hard and cause a lot of issues when using simple soap or detergent. About 85% of Canadian homes have hard water in them and many soap and detergent manufacturers add softeners in their produce to try deal with the problem. In cases where the water is slightly hard this may work, but for water that is hard it must be softened for that situation to change.
What happens is that the soap and detergent bind with hard water causing a scum-like substance that gets stuck in the laundry and truly never gets washed out. That’s why your laundry feels stiff after it is dry because of all the residue left in the fibers of the linens and clothing. This soap scum as it is called will trap odors in your laundry and make it appear faded after washing. The average consumer using untreated hard water will consume 4 or 5 times as much soap as somebody using soft water. This is why some experts say water softeners are environmentally friendly because of all the soap that isn’t flushed out into the sewer to clog up our environment for the next generation to deal with.
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