Some one i know has just got a new washing machine + a water pipe magnet thing
Do these Magnets work
YES
NO
Jacko
There's no evidence what-so-ever that they work. On the other hand there's no evidence that they don't work and to claim on the
warranty of certain domestic items in a hard water area you need some kind of "protection" device and they'll often accept magnetic
softeners (despite them being snake oil). So in that way they do work
complete junk IMHO, and i have had a good think about them (someone complained when i threw theirs out! 
)
Sorry, I read somewhere that they are useless
Sorry, I read somewhere that they are useless
Sorry, I read somewhere that they are useless
infact 3 times useless
Here's an experiment to try :-
1) Get some limescale out of the kettle
2) Place it near a magnet
3) Observe any reaction.
If calcium was affected by a magnetic field, wouldn't the pipe just block up where the magnet was?
So how do they work?
you move to a place with nice soft water........simples
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Originally posted by jacko
Some one i know has just got a new washing machine + a water pipe magnet thing
Do these Magnets work
YES
NO
Jacko
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Originally posted by Triton
you move to a place with nice soft water........simples
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
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Originally posted by Triton
you move to a place with nice soft water........simples
Bugger that, I'm staying where I am where our water is hard. Don't want none of your southern nancy soft water!
Our water is so hard the sink is scared of it. If soft water gives your machine heart disease I want none of it.
Water's double 'ard round here. I got one of those things on my incoming in my new house (came with the boiler kit). I do seem to get less
scale build up on taps/the kettle etc than I've been used to growing up in my old home down the road. Is it anything to do with this thing? Who
knows. Probably not. If I recall, I read about them at the time I fit it - the description was something like the magnetic fields ionises the
particles that become scale so they repel each other and are less likely to combine and become scale - some bollards like that. I don't remember
being to convinced, but maybe it's working!
Limescale reducers are used where I live, plenty in the plumbers merchants but are usually an electrical winding round the water supply permanently powered
Water's triple 'ard at the moment here. I turned the tap on and it stayed in there!
I work in a hard water area (Domestic Appliance engineer) over the last 35 years I haven't seen
any difference, with or without.
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Originally posted by 40inches
I work in a hard water area (Domestic Appliance engineer) over the last 35 years I haven't seen
any difference, with or without.