If water conditioners are unfamiliar to you, then let us help you get up to speed! Water conditioners are designed to treat hard water. Put simply hard water contains high concentrations of minerals, mainly calcium and magnesium.

When you your home is supplied by Hard Water it will affect all your appliances. Whether that be washing dishes, using your hot water, and even washing your clothes. There are several ways hard water will manifest itself in your laundry. Read on for some common laundry problems caused by hard water and how to solve them.

Limescale is a familiar nuisance to much of the UK, building up everywhere that water sits. Whether that be your toilet, shower or kitchen tap. Worst of all it is difficult to clean after it sticks to those surfaces. Rather than going out to buy expensive and in some cases corrosive chemicals to remove the scale what about using something already at home such as WD-40? Does WD-40 remove limescale? Let’s find out!

Cleaning the toilet can be an unpleasant nuisance at the best of times but if you live in a hard water area it can be even worse. Limescale deposits can form dark patches in the toilet bowl, but what makes this especially frustrating is that these deposits are stubborn and hard to remove. Elbow grease is often not enough. So how to remove limescale from below the toilet waterline? Read on to find out!

Today, November 19th, is World Toilet Day. Find out why this somewhat unpleasant topic is so important and what you can do to help!

Limescale is an expensive and frustrating nuisance. It not only ruins the looks of a nice bathroom or kitchen but will also destroy fixtures and equipment, like your kettle eventually. Whilst grabbing a descaler from the cleaning supplies shelf can seem like the only option many have opted for alternative and potentially cheaper methods to deal with the problem, in this instance coke! So does coke remove limescale? Let’s find out.

This is a common question, there are several magnetic devices on the market which are designed to treat limescale. Right off the bat however a correction does need to be made. There is no such thing as magnetic water softening. Magnetic devices do not remove the mineral content from the water and thereby do not soften the water. We’ll cover what these systems actually do further into the article. The short answer is that most magnetic systems are a form of limescale inhibitor rather than a softener.

COP26 is now underway and the wealth and weight of topics being covered can be very overwhelming. One area of particular interest to us here at Halcyan is of course water. One of the most pressing and important areas of focus at COP26 and in the wider effort to tackle runaway climate change. In this article we’ll take a quick and straightforward look at what has and will be going on at the COP26 water pavilion and where Halcyan fits into the colossal water picture.

You may have noticed, with some frustration that your kitchen tap no longer runs as smoothly as it once did. With stray streams of water shooting off to the side of the sink or the flow of your tap being reduced. In this article we’ll look into the why and explain how to stop kitchen tap spraying.

Why is my showerhead blocked or why are the shower nozzles clogged? These are common questions. Luckily for you we have the answer!