Is there a special filter that removes I'm presuming clay or lime or calcium from the well water? And is it ridiculously expensive, and should we just clean the taps and basins all the god-damn time?

Either buy a water softener or clean the taps and basins all the  god-damn time, up to you.

Zeolite filter,

maybe.

Cheers

 

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VInegar dissolves the deposit.

 

Cheers.

 

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In my experience -

 

Water softener helps some, vinegar stinks.

 

Cleaning seems to be the thing. Basic stuff would be just water and wipe, don't let it stay wet. 

Every now and then, open the sieve/head/top and clean thoroughly - this seems to help a lot.

 

The challenge is to achieve the coveted status of 'you-clean-not-good', thereby being forbidden from doing any such cleaning.

 

Also, in general, the better quality of fixtures, the better they fare.

 

Switched to proper 'city water' a couple of months back, big improvement. 

 

Have you tested the Water Hardness? If not too high a Softener will help.

Limescale deposits (and soap scum) can be removed easily with a 25% phosphoric acid to 75% water mix but wear gloves and mask as it irritates the air passages.

You can buy it cheap on Lazada amd mix yourself as I do.

As other posters have mentioned you likely need a water softener putting into the water supply.

Maybe good to get it tested to see what deposits are present.

 

 

Pay for a water softener system (and the salt) or pay to have local water piped in from your nearest water company. I opted for the latter.  Overall, it is less maintenance for me. 

9 hours ago, UWEB said:

Have you tested the Water Hardness? If not too high a Softener will help.

Nope. Where would the water softener be added? In line or directly in the tank?

 

4 minutes ago, RabidRenu said:

Nope. Where would the water softener be added? In line or directly in the tank?

 

After the tank, before the faucet, at the point where water enter the home. 

 There are resin filters that use ion exchange to soften hard water.  Google "big blue 20 inch resin. 

On 11/11/2023 at 5:55 PM, RabidRenu said:

should we just clean the taps and basins all the god-damn time?

No once a week or bi-monthly is enough.

On 11/11/2023 at 8:29 PM, Morch said:

In my experience -

 

Water softener helps some, vinegar stinks.

 

Cleaning seems to be the thing. Basic stuff would be just water and wipe, don't let it stay wet. 

Every now and then, open the sieve/head/top and clean thoroughly - this seems to help a lot.

 

The challenge is to achieve the coveted status of 'you-clean-not-good', thereby being forbidden from doing any such cleaning.

 

Also, in general, the better quality of fixtures, the better they fare.

 

Switched to proper 'city water' a couple of months back, big improvement. 

 

 

'The challenge is to achieve the coveted status of 'you-clean-not-good', thereby being forbidden from doing any such cleaning'

 

I've found if I don't do it, it doesn't get done. I think it's based on the "well it still works ok" line of thinking I see a lot here. I have tried explaining, on more than one occasion, that it takes about 2 seconds to wipe the shower tap fitting, when you've finished, to keep it clean. I then get the long "oooohhhh" sound. Does everyone else get that? I used to think that sound was the realisation of the relevance of what I was saying. I now know it's the sound of my explanation going in one ear and exiting the other so quickly that no trace of it remains. To be followed by the same procedure if I'm stupid enough to repeat it.

 

I don't find it much of a problem here but I'm from Southampton in the south of England where the water is very hard. I think a softener or cleaning sound best.