Many of us are concerned with the quality of the water in our kitchen. Many of us are meticulous about the water we drink – filtered water only! – and the water we use to make our coffee and tea. Very conscientious people will use filtered water to wash vegetables before cooking. Some people will even use filtered water to cook things like spaghetti – because the water quality at home is so poor that it’s literally unthinkable to want to eat food cooked in it.
But other places where we use water can get overlooked, and this is a mistake. For example, have you ever given thought to the water used in your washing machine? You wash your clothes so that they’ll become clean, of course – but the truth is, you probably don’t know what residues remain on your clothes after laundering. Many communities’ water supplies are chock full of unpleasant surprises. Do you want iron building up on your clothes, discoloring your whites? No, you don’t! But this can happen! If your water supply is high in iron, the iron will build up in your pipes and eventually on everything that has regular contact with the water. And over time, your favorite white t-shirt, your best set of white sheets, will gain a distinct yellow tint. Even if you took a tip from your great-grandmother and got a bottle of bluing to try to offset the yellowing, it wouldn’t work. Yellowed fabric can seldom be saved. The solution to the problem is to make sure that the problem never begins – by installing a whole-house water filtering system or, at minimum, an iron/water treatment system. (A good source of information about iron in laundry is this article published by Ohio State University.)
Another reason to consider the quality of the water in your washing machine is the fact that many people suffer serious allergies. How often do you or a loved one suffer from an inexplicable rash or allergic reaction to something? Often we assume that the culprit is a switch in laundry detergent, or maybe a new brand of dryer fabric softening sheets. But it could just as easily be that there’s something in the water in your washing machine that’s leaving allergens behind in your clothes, bedding, and towels – and you’re reacting to it badly. It could also be that the contaminants in the water supply are preventing detergent from being rinsed thoroughly from your wash – and that the detergent itself is the problem. But the problem wouldn’t be caught in your clothes if the water in the machine was doing its job of rinsing! Again, the solution to the problem is a whole-house water filter. A family with small children using cloth diapers will immediately understand the value and good sense of making sure that laundry water is as pure as possible: no one wants Baby to suffer needlessly as the result of inadequate rinsing.
When you stop to think of the countless small agonies that are reduced or removed by the installation of a whole house water filter, or, a less daunting project, a washing machine water filter, it becomes very clear that it only makes sense to install a good filtration system.
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