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Old 23-01-2007, 06:59 PM
Mervington Mervington is offline
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Thanks Jeff for this.

We are in Wensleydale, but our water is not soft. We certainly get scale deposits in the kettle!

Perhaps I should ask a chemist whether soaking sulphur chips in containers of water will have the desired effect, but I don't know a chemist...................

Thanks again.

Mervyn
from Mervington again

I've been told from another source that TEA is very good at coverting alkali tap water to slightly acidic. A pot of tea will treat a gallon of water.............

Mervyn