Old Water Heater

Old Water Heater With Mound of Limescale

As part of the upgrade to our electrics and plumbing we removed our old 3 phase water heater, which will now become another water butt near one of the outbuildings.


With the old plumbing there wasn't a water softener, so when I turned the water heater upside down to empty out the last of the water this pile of limescale tumbled out, accompanied by filthy brown water.  To think that we used this for washing and occasionally for cooking - YUK.

It's not surprising that the water here is so hard as it all comes from bore holes drilled into the soft limestone.