How Do Electric Water Softeners Work?

LESLIE: Robert in Michigan is dealing with hard water. Tell us what’s going on.

ROBERT: I have a lot of problems with hard water, a lot of iron.

LESLIE: OK.

ROBERT: And I’ve seen advertised these electric water softeners, where you don’t use salt? It goes through an electric box or something? And in my mind, I can’t figure out how they would work.

LESLIE: Well, we’ve had some experience with one called EasyWater. And how this one, in particular, works is you take a – I guess is it a power supply, Tom? It’s an electrical cord or wire that you wrap around your water-supply pipe.

TOM: Well, the EasyWater itself actually – that’s exactly what it does: it creates a magnetic field. And so this is wrapped around the supply pipe and then it magnetizes or demagnetizes, so to speak …

LESLIE: And pushes everything away from each other so that they’re not going to stick. And then it sort of just rinses through rather than getting stuck where you see all of the issues that you get with hard water.

ROBERT: Alright. How do they work?

TOM: Well, they seem to work pretty good. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback on the system when we installed it. And we’ve heard from folks that have installed it. It worked well for us and it seems to work well for also the folks that we’ve talked to, so I would not be afraid to give it a shot.

And I know that they have a pretty good warranty on that so if you have any problems, you can send it back.

ROBERT: OK. I don’t have any information on it now and I don’t see it advertised anymore on TV.

TOM: Yeah. You know what? It’s actually pretty easy to find, Robert. Their website is EasyWater.com and that’s spelled out E-a-s-yWater.com. Don’t use the initials because that’s a competitor. There’s a lot of folks that have been trying to steal their traffic, so to speak. So if you just go to EasyWater – E-a-s-yWater.com, you’ll find it. The product is made by the FREIJE Treatment Systems Company – F-R-E-I-J-E.

ROBERT: OK. Thank you.

TOM: You’re welcome. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.