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Reduce or eliminate the use of fabric softeners.
Fabrics washed in hard water retain soap curd or residue making them
“crackle” when removed from the dryer or stiff if air-dried. Fabric softeners are
necessary with hard water to keep your clothing soft, but with soft water, you
can reduce your use of fabric softeners or eliminate them altogether.
Take special precautions with automatic dishwashers.
Soft water, when combined with caustic phosphates
in some dishwasher detergents and very high
temperatures in the dry cycle, can etch dishes
and glassware. To prevent this possibility:
• use the “no heat” dry cycle on your dishwasher;
• use the minimum amount of a good quality,
low phosphate dishwasher detergent needed
to clean your dishes. is may be as little as
20 percent of the amount recommended by
the appliance manufacturer or on the dishwasher
soap box;
• wash good china and crystal by hand.
Special care for plants and fish.
Depending on your water hardness level, amount of rainfall and how often you
water, you could use soft water for outside watering, but
why waste your soft water? Water your lawn, shrubs
and outside plants from an outside hard water faucet
or put your Kinetico water system in by-pass before
watering. See “By-pass” on page 12 for instructions
on by-passing your system. Many houseplants can be
watered with soft water, although some houseplants
can be highly sensitive to the elevated level of sodium
ions in soft water. You may prefer to water houseplants
with hard water or water from a Kinetico reverse
osmosis system.
Fish accustomed to hard water may have trouble with an abrupt change to soft
water. Make the change gradually over a period of seven to 14 days by blending
hard and soft water until the tank contains 100 percent soft water. Once you
begin using soft water, you should notice that your fish tank stays cleaner longer.
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