Think next ,"kunk up" we may just purchase a new coil or whatever for the water heater unit. Much better then changing out the entire heater as it is hung up on the wall overhead.
I think you're probably right, might as well get a whole new one. I know the type you mean - the big white cylinder. Not very expensive but not great looking either. We have a gas boiler that does the house heating but also has a built in 40 litre buffer tank for hot water on demand.
Growing up in S. Ca. I always sort of freak when using the bath, think OH GOD not an earthquake while I'm in here!
Every place seems to have it's good and bad thing, the water does taste good enough from the taps here although we still filter all of our drinking and cooking water.
In Vegas you really could not drink the tap water. It was horrid tasting, could smell every drop of clor and chems they added to the filtering of the recycled water.
It is actually very unhealthy to shower in a closed room with the hot water coming out of the taps in Vegas, not good for your lungs to breath in that stuff.
We bought a PUR water filter for the tap where we drank from, my son even refused to use that, he bought glass bottles of mountain spring water to drink. That cost a ton every month and the recycling bin was always overfilled with bottles.
In the long run I wish to buy a unit to make distilled water.
They do sell small units for about $150. here but they only produce I think a liter or so a day.
My husband was playing about making his own over the stove with glass. Tasted great but it only produced less then 8 oz. a day doing it by hand.
Earthquakes not really on the radar here but they do happen. Mrs Fluffy can remember one in the 1960s. I was also in one in Kosovo. Quite a strange feeling to feel that "ripple" across the ground. Scared the hell out of everyone.
I'm not that impressed with distilled water My SIL has a water softener in her house. The water tastes revolting. They have special drinking water tap fitted next to the normal tap. All the utility taps - basins, baths, showers are all supplied from this water softening machine so they don't have to clean them like we do. But not for drinking.
It's easier to add vinegar say to your washing machine every so often but impossible to to to your water heater unit as far as I can figure out.
Yes, it's true, quite difficult to blitz your water heater with vinegar. You can get a special cleaner in Aldi or Lidl which will go in the dishwasher or washing machine but no idea on the water heater. We don't use vinegar on them because it's a bit smelly so we use these little bottles from the supermarket. But we often use vinegar to dissolve the gunk off the taps as I said.
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