Kinetico Water Systems Premier Serie Guide D'utilisation page 6

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Reduce or eliminate the use of fabric softeners.
Fabrics washed in hard water retain soap curd or residue
making them "crackle" when removed from the dryer or
sti if air-dried. Fabric softeners are necessary with hard
water to keep your clothing soft, but with soft water, you
can reduce your use of fabric softeners or eliminate them
altogether.
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Take special precautions with automatic dishwashers.
Soft water, when combined with caustic phosphates in some dishwasher detergents
and very high temperatures in the dry cycle, can etch dishes and glassware. To
prevent this possibility:
• use the "no heat" dry cycle on your dishwasher;
• use the minimum amount of a good quality, low phosphate dishwasher
detergent needed to clean your dishes. This may be as little as 20 percent
of the amount recommended by the appliance manufacturer or on the
dishwasher soap box;
• wash fine china and crystal by hand.
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Special care for plants and fish.
Depending on your water hardness level, amount of rainfall and how often you
water, you could use soft water for outside watering, but why waste your soft
Fish accustomed to hard water may have trouble with an abrupt change to
soft water. Make the change gradually over a period of seven to 14 days by
blending hard and soft water until the tank contains 100 percent soft water.
Once you begin using soft water, you should notice that your fish tank stays
cleaner longer.
water? Water your lawn, shrubs and outside plants
from an outside hard water faucet or put your Kinetico
water system in by-pass before watering. See "By-pass"
on page 14 for instructions on by-passing your system.
Many houseplants can be watered with soft water,
although some houseplants can be highly sensitive to
the elevated level of sodium ions in soft water. You may
prefer to water houseplants with hard water or water
from a Kinetico reverse osmosis system.
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