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I guess I have soft water then. How do you know if you have hard, soft or neutral water?

 

John, when you get out of the shower do you feel kind of slimy?

My parents have soft water and when we go back there I always feel slimy, not in a gross way, when I get out of the shower. At my home I don't feel this way and I don't have hard water. By slimy I mean does it feel like you still need to rinse off?

 

I agree with the scent.. I used som L whatever Cade this morning.. I thought it was to perfumey

We have to chew the water here before we swallow it.. very hard water.


Fuzzy

 

I voted against :sick007 Obama :sick007, that is all I have to say about that. I don't wanna be in Shep's report.

 

My grandmothers water was so soft when I was growing up that if you used very much soap it felt like it was never going to wash off. Wonderful drinking water from a deep well.. It had a brownish yellow tint from the minerals or what not in the well.


Fuzzy

 

<click> in a good way

Fuzzy

 

I don't have soft water then. I was in Greenwood Mississippi a couple years ago and that is exactly how the water was there. I took showers and the water felt slimy... felt like I couldn't wash the slime off. It tasted awful too.

 

I'm surpised the water tasted bad, usually soft water tastes better to me.

Fuzzy my uncle had a well that the water was truly awesome. No chemicals, nothing but whatever was in the ground. It was ice cold and was the best tasting water I have had to date.

 

One last water question: how do I know if I have hard water?

 

Besides getting it tested, which most plumbing contractors can do for you, you can tell by soap scum, etc. I have found that with hard water the showers get soap scummed up a lot more.

Are you on city water? Do you have a water softener?

Most of the time city water is not softened and really the only way to get soft water, without a softener, is thru some wells that are in the rural areas.

 

City water is always that way... Greenwood get's it water from the Yazoo river I think.,,,That is the part of the world I am from. Well water is different.. especially deep wells.

Fuzzy

 

I must be used to un-soft water.

 

Sounds like home.. I have also had my share of ice cold well water from the shallow wells.. lots of minerals... really metalic taste... you should try cool aid made from a shallow well.

Fuzzy

 

I was working for a Viking appliance distributor and did business daily with the the factory in Greenwood... some of the nicest people I ever met!

I'd consider moving south someday, but I hate the heat.

 

Have it tested. We had moderately hard water, and went ahead and got a softener installed, and a whole house filter, too. If you're half way handy, you can install one yourself. I really didn't feel like messing with plubming, so I had them do it. I hate plumbing.

The slimy feeling is actually a lack of friction from soap residue. What happens is that the hard water does not wash off all the soap, so there's a thin layer of soap left over on your skin. The softened water allows all the soap to rinse off, and there is no friction so you feel smooth/slimy. Our skin has improved considerably - we used to go through hand lotion like crazy, and now we hardly use much at all. With winter it's picked up, but over the summer we didn't need it.

One of the sales gimmicks they use when they come over is to put some of your water into a vial, and then hook up a mini-softener to your tap and fill another vial with softened water. They then add one drop of your liquid hand soap to each vial and put a lid on them. Shake each one up and the unsoftened water was cloudy and had very weak thin looking suds. The softened water was crystal clear and had copious amounts of suds, like 10 times as much. They explained that the cloudiness was the minerals attaching to the soap, causing it to not suds up.

On the down side, I think this same thing is causing my problems with lathering certain things. They explode with a very sudsy, but dry foam....not really a thick creamy lather....I'm thinking I need to use more product, because when I add water it just turns more thin and unappealing.

I should've broken this down into 25 posts....

 

Do not let that stop you. People down here are great. I was born in and grew up around Greenville. My Brother lived in Greenwood several years. So I was there alot. there are several nice southern towns around there. Itta Bena, Indianola, Moorhead, Sunflower. I do miss being around there.

Fuzzy

 

I could see myself living in Minnesota or the Dakotas. Friendly people there too and not so dang hot.

Connecticut is great, but I'm more of a red state kind of guy and Connecticut is very very blue.

 

I hate the cold and snow. And ice. And cold wind. I'm about as far north as I think I would like to get. I'll be moving to the southwest once I retire from the FD, in about 10-12 years.

Anyways....

I don't think taste has to do with the water's hardness as much as it has to do with the treatments it is given (or lack there of), and what minerals it has in it in what concentrations. When we lived in Maryland, our water was actually a little bit harder than when we moved to PA, but it was treated better and tasted better. Phoenix's water tasted horrible, as does our water now. Since we've added the filter, it's been great. Maryland has higher water treatment standards than PA. Treatment facilities generally do not treat for hardness/softness at all. The water is what it is in that regards.

 

hard to guess what color kinda guy I am huh..

Fuzzy

I lived in Tucson for almost 5 years hated the water the whole time.

 

John you should come to Wyoming. Very red state, although I am a blue, and not as much heat. It can be 100 degrees in the summer but at night it still gets down to 50 degrees. Plus, in Buffalo, we are at the base of the Big Horn Mountains. 20 minute drive and I am away from civilization and surrounded by trees and streams. Oh yeah, no state income tax in Wyoming either. Billings, Montana is only 2 hours away and they have no sales tax, so guess where we buy all of our major purchases.( of course we claim all of these at the port of entry)