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After a shower does your skin feel itchy? Does it smell like chlorine? Do you find your knees, elbows, feet, and other areas of your body are flaky? All of this is likely due to you having hard water.

With hard water, there are additional minerals found within the water, which you then wash your skin and hair in. This can leave your entire body dried out and itchy, especially during the winter months when there might be less moisture in the air.

The best way to combat this issue is to improve the quality of your hard water. This is possible with a water softener. When considering what does hard water do to your skin, here is what you need to know.

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As any good chef will tell you, it’s critical to know exactly what you’re putting into your recipe. Yet oftentimes, there are a few unknown ingredients that might slip past your watchful eye. Even if you pay extreme attention to the brand of ingredients you buy, cooking times, amounts, and everything else in between, there is one variable at play that you might be missing altogether: your water. If you’re using water from your tap you are likely adding trace amounts of minerals and other undesirables right into your food. Have you ever opened up your dishwasher, only to smell a slight egg-like aroma coming from the recently washed dishes? No, it’s not the detergent you used and it’s probably not something stuck in the dishwasher. It’s from the water itself. Do you really want to be adding that to your holiday meals? Of course not. That’s exactly why you want to begin cooking with filtered water.

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Even if you don’t realize it, the tap water in your house may be dangerous. While the tap water does go through the city’s filtration system it does need to pass through miles and miles of piping that, realistically, hasn’t been changed in decades. It only takes one small bit of bad piping, or a leak somewhere along the path, to cause all kinds of issues with your water. In fact, here are seven scary facts about tap water you need to know about.

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It’s hard to know exactly where your tap water has been. Sure, it typically flows through the city’s water purification center, but from there it must travel a long way to your home, all the while moving through plumbing that likely hasn’t been serviced in decades (if not longer). If you live in a more rural area the water may originate from a local well, in which case the water is often stationary for long periods of time in an older well, before arriving at your home.

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Most people drank water from a well for much of human history. Water wells date back almost 10,000 years, first appearing in the Neolithic era. Wells can provide a reliable source of water when surface water is scarce.

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After reports of unsafe tap water in other places, those in Charlotte, North Carolina often wonder if the local water is safe enough. It turns out that there are several factors that go into properly answering this question, most of which lie beyond the valves of the municipal water treatment facilities. This arises the need to install the home water filtration system in every home for quality water.

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Water filtration is a great way to ensure you have clean, refreshing, and delicious water at your tap whenever you turn on the faucet. However, more than this, it keeps your skin feeling fantastic after a shower and helps prevent any funky odors from coming out of the washing machine. But maybe you don’t have all of these problems just yet. Why should you consider a water softener system in your home? Here are just a few of the reasons why you need to take advantage of such a water softener system installation inside of your home today.

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Before looking at the improved taste of the water, it is important to point out the kind of money you will save when installing an efficient water softener system in your home. If you have hard water it means you have minerals running through your plumbing. This also means you have minerals running through your appliances, such as the washing machine, the dish washer, hot water heater, and so on. Over time, the minerals will build up on the interior of your appliance, which will reduce the water flow and eventually corrode your appliance.  Read More

Have you noticed your water tastes a bit off? Perhaps if you leave a glass out overnight you wake up to mineral residue collecting around the bottom of the cup. Or maybe after shows your skin feels dry and smells like chlorine. There’s no limit to the kinds of water issues your home may experience. While the water is more than likely safe to drink it doesn’t mean you won’t be left with smelly dishes out of the dishwasher or dry, dull hair. Thankfully, whatever the problem may be, Quality Water has a water filtration system just for you.

Drinking Water Systems

Perhaps your skin doesn’t feel dry or smell like chemicals after taking a shower, and maybe your dishes come out smelling clean out of the dishwasher. In these instances you might not need full-house systems. Instead, you might only want to find a way to remove minerals found within the water, so the water you drink is as pure as possible. In these instances, Quality Water provides several drinking water systems.  Read More

When 2019 kicked off, many people dusted off that classic phrase: “new year, new me!” Time will tell whether that “new me” business sticks. However, there is a far more important goal we think you should focus on: “new year, new water!” Many of us are forced to either spend a ton of money on bottled water or drink tap water that is filled with contaminants. However, you can get the best of both worlds by using Kinetico water treatment systems.

New to the world of water purification and treatment? Keep reading to learn more about the products that may be best for you!
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There is a lot that can go wrong around your home. Most of us are always on the lookout for things like malfunctioning appliances. However, what if there was a hidden threat that you couldn’t actually see?

It may sound like a dramatic movie monster. However, this threat is all too real. It’s hard water.

Hard water can cause everything from foul smells to high water bills. Fortunately, there are ways to beat it back using products such as the Kinetico Premier Water Softener.

Keep reading for more about what hard water is and the benefits of preventing it!

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