Is this for real, or is it a load of rubbish?

A while back I posted pics of my hot water heater that was full of lime, which not only fouls up the water heater elements, but also makes our drinking glasses look all white and foggy.

A few days ago I was talking with our local hardware store owner about the problem, and he recommended me to someone else in town who sells "calcite removal systems" for the water. The guy claims it's calcium, not lime, that's causing the problems.

I spoke with the guy today, and he apparently sells this setup:

http://scaelsystem.com/

It looks sort of hokey, but he swears by it, and says he's installed 3-4 per year in town. He offered names of his customers as references, and says that it completely eliminates the build-up in the water.

Has anyone else had any experience with this system, or anything like it?

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kingsotall said:

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I like that!
The Scael system is endorsed by Rev. Zombie
He'll be rattling them chicken bones for ya!



What you really need is a water softener!
A real one that uses the Ion Exchange Method.
It will remove the hardness from your water rather than zap it into a round blue thing as it passes the voodoo magnet chamber.

This is the next product for Billy Mays.

I think I saw Obama selling something like that...

Something with no track record (experience) to judge anything by...

About what I figured. If it looks like snake oil, and smells like snake oil, it's probably snake oil.

I wonder how he got so many of his previous customers to vouch for the thing.

Cass said:

I think I saw Obama selling something like that...

Something with no track record (experience) to judge anything by...

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Fixed.

They are either his friends, relatives or the sales people that work for him. Or else he paid them off.

recommendations

The same reason placebos cure people. If you can convince them it is working, they will find a reason to believe it. This is the reason the only recommendations you can rely on are those from recognized, independent testing laboratories. Not testimonials, not "we conducted the tests in our own laboratories", and not "the following test results were paid for by the manufacturer".