"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On 21 Mar 2006 13:11:14 GMT, Richard Perkin
wrote:

Andy Hall wrote in
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On 21 Mar 2006 04:28:02 -0800, "
wrote:

I assumed they worked because my plumber installed a magnetic one
inline to the new boiler I brought. I thought it was the same
principle. Are you guys all saying that these don't work either ?

Completely useless.

This document:
http://www.southernwater.co.uk/pdfs/.../drinkWaterQua
lity/SoftenersWRCnote.pdf
based on research from WRc (if I remember correctly, the now-
privatised Water Research Centre labs) that physical conditioning
devices do *indeed* work, but that the scale-reducing effect cannot
be guaranteed.

Which is not quite the same as "useless" - more a case of "suck it
and see".


The document is liberally sprinkled with the words "if", "might",
"maybe"

The WRC reference is worthless because it only relates to whether
conditioners do or don't conform to regulations and is not related to
fitness for purpose.

There is only one PC device that
has passed the German DVGW tests and
this is not the typical type of £30-90
device that is sold.

These are useless.

That is not what the WRC say.