Is there a better way to heat up my geyser that uses borehole water? The area I live in has no reliable water unless you drill a borehole. Every three months I change out my copper elements in my geyser. I am just asking since it is a pain in the butt

  • notaviking@lemmy.worldOP
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    16 days ago

    Yeah the lime scale buildup, or as we call it calc buildup the white calcium one basically. It is not so much cleaning the element that is my problem, it actually gets corroded away, why I have to use the copper elements, that way I usually get about three months of usage out of it. I will try the water softening system other users have recommended.

    But thank you for the citric acid trick, will use the trick on my tap heads

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        16 days ago

        I have been drinking the water for at least 5 years, it is drinkable. But I looked at my neighbours lab results 3 years ago, water is potable, magnesium was just outside the recommended level, but the calcium was off the charts.

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          16 days ago

          so what corrodes your heater? i thought it might be acidic

          Water softener won’t remove acid (there are types that do, but these come with 2 different ion exchange resins and require regenerating with acid and base. this gives deionised water)