JenniF
2016-02-22 08:42:53
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Hello everyone,
we are considering installing a water softening system (our water has a hardness of 19 °dh, our house is now 7 years old).
In our circle of acquaintances, it has already happened 3 times that the fittings were so scaled that no water flowed anymore. These are all new buildings (about 3 years old). What surprises us now is that recently there have been increasing problems with the pipes being clogged due to limescale deposits. In the past, these cases were only very rare. Many houses that have existed for decades do not have these problems, even though some of them still have metal pipes, which should actually be more prone to limescale deposits.
What could be the reason that suddenly more and more pipes in new buildings are being clogged by limescale deposits?
Actually, only plastic pipes are installed nowadays, which are so smooth that limescale can hardly build up here. After 3 - 4 years, no pipe should be "blocked" at all. So do only the metal fittings clog? If so, why don’t metal fittings in old buildings clog en masse? Are the new metal fittings perhaps made of a different material than the old ones (possibly due to allergies), to which limescale can adhere better? Or are they constructed differently, for example to produce less noise when water flows through? Or is there perhaps a "conspiracy" of the plumbing industry producing deliberately faulty fittings?
There must be some reason after all why in many new buildings the pipes / fittings clog after a very short time and in old buildings they do not.
Maybe someone here has a plausible explanation?
Thank you in advance and regards, Jenni
we are considering installing a water softening system (our water has a hardness of 19 °dh, our house is now 7 years old).
In our circle of acquaintances, it has already happened 3 times that the fittings were so scaled that no water flowed anymore. These are all new buildings (about 3 years old). What surprises us now is that recently there have been increasing problems with the pipes being clogged due to limescale deposits. In the past, these cases were only very rare. Many houses that have existed for decades do not have these problems, even though some of them still have metal pipes, which should actually be more prone to limescale deposits.
What could be the reason that suddenly more and more pipes in new buildings are being clogged by limescale deposits?
Actually, only plastic pipes are installed nowadays, which are so smooth that limescale can hardly build up here. After 3 - 4 years, no pipe should be "blocked" at all. So do only the metal fittings clog? If so, why don’t metal fittings in old buildings clog en masse? Are the new metal fittings perhaps made of a different material than the old ones (possibly due to allergies), to which limescale can adhere better? Or are they constructed differently, for example to produce less noise when water flows through? Or is there perhaps a "conspiracy" of the plumbing industry producing deliberately faulty fittings?
There must be some reason after all why in many new buildings the pipes / fittings clog after a very short time and in old buildings they do not.
Maybe someone here has a plausible explanation?
Thank you in advance and regards, Jenni