> Her water is not very hard

Sean, I recently cleaned our cistern valve again. This needs doing
every few years. The problem is always brown manganese build-
up. I take the whole thing apart and scrub with a nail brush the
flapper, needle valve, seat, everything, and it works good as new.
Our water pressure is good, and I can't say I've noticed any kind
of failure due to that

When I was in the UK "hard" meant not a lot of chalk in the water.
Being on the south coast our water was definitely very soft and
lime scale was very common after just a short time. For example
we'd have a pebble in the kettle to seed the scale and keep it off the
element

Do you notice anything like scale in other water appliances ? How
about the neighbours ?



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