What Problems does Hard Water Cause?
I like to tell people, “hard water wouldn’t be a problem if the rocks wouldn’t fall back out!” However, they do. Several events make this happen: heat, pressure change, pH change. The first o…
Keeping Memorial Day in our Memory – The Chosin Few
On 27 November 1950, the Chinese 9th Army surprised the US X Corps commanded by Major General Edward Almond at the Chosin Reservoir area (real name Chang Jin). A brutal 17-day battle in freezing weath…
Testimonial: Ari Chose NaturalSof For His Beautiful New Home
Near San Jose in the town of Cupertino we have a customer named Ari who took on the massive project of doing an owner-build of a new home. He was introduced to our line by the Fantastic Rooter Plumbi…
Fluid Dynamics Review And Testimonial: Cooling Towers
Walker Station School was struggling with heavy scaling issues in their HVAC cooling tower /walker-station-ft-bend-map.png chiller system despite the use of scale prevention chemicals. The system was …
How can I win more Plumbing and Mechanical Business?
Mark Gelfo, PE, LEED AP BD+C of TLC Engineering for Architecture in Jacksonville, FL wrote a great article on developing new business. In it he provides some details to support five basic rules. Ins…
Why am I so Itchy after I Shower?
Rather than just lather up with lotion, it is best to work backwards and discover the source of the skin irritation as it may not simply be dry skin. In fact, the lotions could be doing more harm tha…
Fluid Dynamics Review and Testimonial: Breweries
The Warped Wing Brewing Company opened a new production facility in Dayton, Ohio in 2014. Aware of hard water scaling issues in the area (total hardness 175 ppm or 10.2 gpg), they researched various…
What Contaminants are in my Tap Water?
In the early 1900’s the addition of chlorine to public drinking water supplies greatly reduced the number of cases of waterborne diseases like typhoid, cholera, and dysentery. These were causing the …
Reduce Legionella Risk With Quality Water Treatment
A Water Quality Products article of March 2013 details out the risk of hard water scale and bio film in Cooling Towers as well as other equipment. How these can contribute to the presence of Legionel…
Should I be worried about Lead in Drinking Water at School?
The state of Arizona is certainly taking a proactive approach for the testing of drinking water in schools. A coordinated effort was recently announced that will screen the water in as many as 14,000…