Kinetico PREMIER XP Series Owner's Manual page 6

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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 softeners 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 fine 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 lawn, shrubs and outside plants from an outside hard
water faucet or put your Kinetico water system in by-pass before watering.
See "By-pass" on page 14 for instructions on by-passing your system. Many
houseplants can be watered with soft water, although some houseplants can
be highly sensitive to the elevated level of sodium ions in soft water. You may
prefer to water houseplants with hard water or water from a Kinetico reverse
osmosis system.
Fish accustomed to hard water may have
trouble with an abrupt change to soft water.
Make the change 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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