Getting Hard Water Scale in Plumbing, What To Do?

[Bob Lawrence]

Hi Jack,
We fulltime also and use a water softner by Flow Pure. When we first
got it 3 years ago, after using it for about 2 weeks, I noticed that
when I flushed, white chunks started coming out of the toilet head.
Turns out to be hard water chunks. Problem solved for us.
When we first check in somewhere, I test the water with test strips
and if hard enough, I put on the water softner.
Cost was $290, but recharging it with cheap salt (33 cents) every 800
gallons or so (depending on how hard the water is), is a cheap
solution.
Bob Lawrence
84 PT36
South Padre Island, Tx (where we are using the softner)

> Howdy.
>
> I just took apart the solenoid for our coach's Microphor 12 V
Commode to
> see why it wouldn't shut off the water. Water was running into the
> commode's bowl constantly. The Microphor tech said,"Look for sand
in the
> valve part of the solenoid." I did that and did NOT find any SAND
but
> pieces of scale instead. I am too old and lazy to keep tearing that
> solenoid apart every two weeks. There must be an answer to solve
this
> hard water scale problem. Ideas, suggestions would be appreciated.
> A source of C4 as a permanent solution?
>
> TIA,
> Jack
> Regards,
> Jack and Liz Pearce
> Fulltiming in a 1993 Wanderlodge WB40
> D'Hanis, TX in the Winter
> Buena Vista, CO in the Summer
>