So, it's happened before. I shouldn't be surprised or mad at anyone other than myself. A few days ago, in the shower upstairs (the master remodel isn't finished yet) I started to notice some water spots on my totally awesome Andy Warhol shower curtain. I also noticed I felt a little minerally. And then, I put two and two together and realized I had been showering in hard water. So, I asked Tim to check for salt. He said it was full. Then, I went on with life.
Sunday, I noticed my hair was like straw. Now, I did enjoy the extra volume a little calcium brought to my hair, but not the dryness on my skin. So, after showering Monday, and being very irritated at the water spots adorning Marilyn, I decided to act.
And that's when I remembered that our softner had a little trick. For some reason, it's on a circuit that is connected to a GFI outlet that likes to trip. The last time our softner quit, the electrician looked for the tripped GFI plug for over an hour. It's in our mud bath. So, I visited the mud bath (who's toilet is actually not working right now - when it rains it pours!) and sure enough, the outlet was tripped.
I went down to the softner and commanded, with the push of a button, that it regenerate RIGHT NOW! I also noticed the hardness level was only set to 25. The water in Bountiful is about as hard as it gets registering at 55 on Linette's home test kit (please let me know if you would like your water tested - it's easy and fun). So I upped the hardness level and I should be back in business tomorrow. But I will have to clean Marilyn up - I don't think soft water can wash hard water spots away.
2 comments:
As I started to read your poor hard water story, I did feel pretty sad for you. However, as the story went on I didn't feel quite as bad, as you mentioned going from bathroom to bathroom. Face it Kate, you have it pretty well off--I have one, yes one, bathroom. And yes, it is hard water. I hope that it gets fixed though:)
Wendy's comment made me laugh. I have hard water as well.
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