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Don’t Let Hard Water Ruin Your Holidays

If you have hard water coming from your Lincoln pipes, it can affect everything you do in your kitchen. Because of its high concentration of dissolved minerals, it can have a negative impact on the texture, appearance, smell, and even taste of your food. With the holidays coming up, you may be spending a lot of time in the kitchen. It would be a shame to put all that time and effort into preparing a...

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Hard Water Problems: Common Myths of Water Softeners

With the amount of news available to us today, seemingly endless amount of information broadcasted to us about water quality issues in different places around the world, and here locally in the [dealer info= “location”], it’s difficult to understand what exactly you might need to do about your hard water problems. Needs can vary from area to area, and home to home based on what possible contaminants are in your water, whether you use well...

Drinking Water

Why Does My Tap Water Taste Like This?

  The subject of water taste can be, well…subjective. After all, each individual has his or her specific palate for sensing flavors. But there are certain instances when water undeniably has a certain unpleasant flavor. The question is — is this ok, or is this something you should worry about? Let’s take a look at some (mostly) well-known facts… The taste of tap water is geographically specific And this is due to a number of...

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Copper Pipes -- A Potential Risk To Your Water Supply

Copper is one metal that acid water can dissolve into your Lincoln water system. While copper pipes are used in household plumbing, and it is in fact necessary for your diet, it can be poisonous. Infants and Wilson’s Disease Risks The body has a natural way of regulating copper. However, children under one year old do not have this mechanism yet. Those with Wilson’s Disease also have difficulty maintaining proper copper levels. People with Wilson’s...

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Sulfur in your Water (Rotten Egg Smell) - What You Can Do

The most common way to diagnose a contamination of sulfur or hydrogen sulfate in your [dealer info= “location”] home is the smell. To that end, there are simple steps you can take to eliminate this from your faucets. Determine the Source Your first order of business is to find the source — in your drain, or in your water. Take a glass of water from your drain area the smell is originating from, and take...

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Total Dissolved Solids: Six Major Contamination Sources

Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) is the combination of any cations (positively charged) and anions (negatively charged) in your water. Having a test for TDS can tell you the amount, but will not identify the nature of these ionic relationships. Total dissolved solids can come from a number of sources, and the location of your home, climate, water treatment method, source, and a number of variables can contribute to the composition of your water. Common TDS...