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2. How to remove hard water deposits from your faucets and shower

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   Watch the video to learn how to remove hard water stains and build-up from faucets and shower heads. What is hard water? Hard water refers to water that contains a high amount of minerals.

3. How to Clean a Shower Head (And Why You Really Need To) - AOL

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   “Over time, shower heads can develop calcium, limescale, and other mineral buildups from hard water,” explains Vera Peterson, president of Molly Maid. “The mineral buildup creates a blockage ...

4. Here's How Often You Should Drain Your Water Heater ... - AOL

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   “Signs of sediment buildup can include rust-colored water at your faucets, leaking or noisy operation at your water heater, or poor performance from your water heater,” says Davis.

5. Limescale - Wikipedia

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   Limescale is a hard, chalky deposit, consisting mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3). It often builds up inside kettles, boilers, and pipework, especially that for hot water. It is also often found as a similar deposit on the inner surfaces of old pipes and other surfaces where hard water has flowed.

6. Water softening - Wikipedia

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   Water containing these minerals is known as "hard water". [citation needed] When hard water is heated in a plumbing system, carbon dioxide goes out of solution, and bicarbonates become carbonates, which are much less soluble. The carbonates bind to plumbing surfaces providing seed crystals for further crystal growth, which build up as hard scale.

7. Hard water - Wikipedia

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   A bathtub faucet with built-up calcification from hard water in Southern Arizona. Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water"). Hard water is formed when water percolates through deposits of limestone, chalk or gypsum, [1] which are largely made up of calcium and magnesium carbonates, bicarbonates and sulfates.

8. Descaling agent - Wikipedia

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   Limescale build-up inside a pipe reduces both liquid flow and thermal conduction from the pipe, so will reduce thermal efficiency when used as a heat exchanger.. A descaling agent or chemical descaler is a liquid chemical substance used to remove limescale from metal surfaces in contact with hot water, such as in boilers, water heaters, and kettles.

9. Save Your Hair from Hard Water Damage With These Shampoos - AOL

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   Hard water hair solutions range from more permanent adjustments like installing a shower filter to ... which is designed to remove up to 99% of dulling deposits from hard water, chlorinated pools ...