May house is 20 years old. The master shower is glass and completely fogged with I would think was lime stain but remover does not work.
We are having it redone and one contractor says you can get a water filter that does not soften the water that will prevent this and he says it is not lime. What do you recommend?
Joe
Tom’s Answer:
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Tom: That’s so all over the place. He thinks its lime. The contractor says it’s not.
Charlie: No, no, he says it’s completely fogged. What I think was lime, he says he used lime stain remover, it didn’t work. Contractor says he can get a water filter but it’s not a softener that will take care of it.
Tom: Yeah, but it’s not going to clean it.
Charlie: Right.
Tom: It sounds to me like something’s wrong with the glass. Now if you’d have new glass that’s nice and shiny and clean and all that good stuff, then a water softener will help keep it that way.
Charlie: Right.
Tom: If it’s a new home and the glass is already fogged in a very short period of time, no matter how hard the water is, it probably is not the water’s fault, there’s something else. I don’t know without seeing it, but it’s either going to be hard water stains…
Charlie: For which you’d need a softener.
Tom: Well, the softener will help, but you still have to clean off that hard stuff first.
Charlie: Right.
Tom: That could be a little tricky, or it could be a defect of glass, if it’s that new.
Charlie: Okay, well he says its 20 years old.
Tom: Oh, it’s 20 years old?
Charlie: Yeah.
Tom: Well, he said the builder. Is the builder still alive?
Charlie: No, no, they’re redoing it, and he says he doesn’t want it to happen again, okay.
Tom: Water softener, new glass, water softener, that’s the only way to go. There’s no filter that’s going to take the hardness out, just a water softener because it’s a hardness problem.