Kinetico 2020c Manual Del Usuario página 5

ring in your bathtub was also left on your skin. But now that you have
soft water, you'll feel soft, smooth and clean.The same is true for rinsing
shampoo out of your hair.
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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 stiff if air dried. Fabric sof-
teners 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 good 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 water? Water
your garden, shrubs and outside plants from
an outside hard water tap or put your
Kinetico 2020c in by–pass before watering.
See the "By–pass" section on page 11 for
instructions on by–passing your system.
Many house plants can be watered with soft
water although some can be highly sensitive
to the elevated level of sodium ions in soft
water.You may prefer to water with hard water or
water from a Kinetico Drinking Water System Plus.
Fish accustomed to hard water may have trouble with an abrupt change to
soft water. Make the transition 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.
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