Reducing limescale

[Peter Percival]

Do things like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-Co...-Limescale/dp/B002FKFWP6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_diy_2 work? If yes, how?

 

[Davey (archive)]

Do things like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-Co...-Limescale/dp/B002FKFWP6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_diy_2 work? If yes, how?

It has an exclamation mark at the end of the description. Instant turn-off!!

The first answer is 'no', so there is no second answer.

 

[Bob Minchin]

Do things like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-Co...-Limescale/dp/B002FKFWP6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_diy_2 work? If yes, how?

Is it snake oil season again? Within 30 minutes we have power reducing transformer con (titled Miracle?) and magnetic de-scalers raising their ugly heads!

 

[Steve Firth]

Do things like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-Co...-Limescale/dp/B002FKFWP6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_diy_2 work?

They work for their intended purpose which is to get you to pay good money for cheap tat.

If yes, how?

I have this bottle of snake oil, cures all ills, does away with pills. You can buy a case for only fifty bucks.

 

[Davey (archive)]

"Peter Percival" wrote:

Do things like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-Co...-Limescale/dp/B002FKFWP6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_diy_2 work? If yes, how?

No

Invest in a water softener and enjoy the difference

Seconded with enthusiasm.

 

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Do things like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-Co...-Limescale/dp/B002FKFWP6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_diy_2 work?

They work at lightening your wallet.
Anyone who says they do is in the business of selling them or simply deluding themselves, and is therefore a liar and not to be trusted.

 

[Dave Liquorice]

Seconded with enthusiasm.

Or move to somewhere that has a decent, soft, water supply.

 

[Alan (archive)]

Do things like this
work?
Yes

If yes, how?

They are made of the purest of snake oils.

 

[Theo Markettos]

I can't comment myself as I fitted a proper water softener although I am now contemplating fitting a magnet jobbie to the main toilet of the house which I didn't plumb into the soft water side as it's used so regularly but now has a little bit of hard stuff building up either side of the bend...

It wouldn't be hard to run a controlled trial:

Get someone to install two taps. One has a magnetic device on the pipe run, the other doesn't. The pipes are boxed in so you can't tell which.

Each tap fills a separate kettle. Any time you want a cup of tea, you fill both kettles equally from the respective tap. You boil both kettles. You make your tea from one or other kettle. You throw away the water from both every time.

The level of scaling in the kettle should be a reasonable indicator of if it makes a difference...

Theo

 

[polygonum]

It wouldn't be hard to run a controlled trial:

Get someone to install two taps. One has a magnetic device on the pipe run, the other doesn't. The pipes are boxed in so you can't tell which.

Each tap fills a separate kettle. Any time you want a cup of tea, you fill both kettles equally from the respective tap. You boil both kettles. You make your tea from one or other kettle. You throw away the water from both every time.

The level of scaling in the kettle should be a reasonable indicator of if it makes a difference...

Theo

Let us know the results, please.

 

[Peter Percival]

He also went so far as to say that one of his neighbours a few doors away fitted one of those wire-wound jobbies and he found it did actually "descale" his kettle!

So it makes water acidic, and rather strongly acidic at that? I don't like being negative (-, but that paragraph alone makes me doubt the judgement of the other people you mention in your post.

 

[Peter Percival]

Do things like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-Co...-Limescale/dp/B002FKFWP6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_diy_2 work? If yes, how?

Thank you for all replies. My doubts have been confirmed!