Testimonials
June 14, 2010
Hi Patrick...
We installed our HydroCare HC-44 on Friday. Only a few hours later, I asked my husband if he had turned up the temperature on our Rinnai tankless water heater. He hadn't and he really thought that I was maybe imagining the change until he confirmed the fact on Saturday evening that it was indeed hotter...a lot hotter...to the point that it might be a good idea to turn it down some.
I wanted to see what the unit (HC-44) would do when I ran the dishwasher I ran a load of dishes in the dishwasher and it was amazing...the dishes felt completely different (clean, without any residue...what a difference!) and the upper dishwasher shelf, which was not moving in and out smoothly and made noises as it went, was 100% better. The excess limescale and residue buildup in the machine is gone ,and it is like I have a brand new dishwasher!
We are amazed at how fast the HydroCare HC-44 started to work and make an impact on our whole plumbing system. We are very pleased so far and would completely recommend it to any of our friends and family.
Thanks...we are really enjoying our HydroCare HC-44.
Sincerely,
Joan and John Upham
Guys,
This is a truly great and functioning product. I had the opportunity of showing these pictures to a local plumber who had just stopped by for Level 1 training and he too was impressed.
Warren Klugman
WB & Associates, Inc.
We live in the north part of Wichita on the river and use well water. We were unable to use our dishwasher because we have such hard water. The HydroCare provided a solution to our problem. Now the dishes come out clean – no more white powdery film. We chose the HydroCare over traditional water softeners because it doesn’t require salt to operate. We’re very happy with the service, with Handyman and with the product.
Susan
Bill,
After just 2-3 weeks of installing the device in my pool and home, I know that this solution works and benefits are seen very quickly. I just checked the chlorine level in my pool—almost no sign of chlorine. It is scary low!!!!! No sign of algae or mold. I have not added shock since end of July! The water is crystal clear! Normally during August I would have the chlorinator turned on high (5), I have it on very low setting (1 ½) and the 3” tabs are all but dissolved. Normally I would have to add shock on a weekly basis. On top of this incredible experience the scale is going away on my fountain steps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don McKenty
Hi Bill
I have now used the HC-44 Hydrocare unit for one week an thought I would report to you on our findings and observations so far. I am keeping a weekly journal and this is just my first week.
I can report on my personal observation after one week of installing the HC-44 Hydrocare unit. It appears that we are getting most of the benefits that traditional salt brine water softeners provide that the naysayers have said we would not notice to determine if the hard water is truly being treated by the Hydrocare technology. The one big salt brine negative for us that we are not getting is that slimy never feeling clean feeling when we shower. I am keeping a weekly journal of our observations and following is the first week. I know this is not scientific but again it is just our observations.
Background
- Hydrocare HC-44 unit installed on July 15, 2009 on cold water line to water heater. This is the manufacture’s recommended installation location as it will provide the strongest signal directly into the water heater. According to Hydrocare, their technology works both up and down stream and is not dependent upon any water flow and thusly it will provide whole house hard water treatment from the water heater installation. Total installation time took less than 5 minutes.
- Our Home is 4 ½ years old with no previous water treatment and is 2700 sq feet with full 3 bathrooms.
- Our city Water has a TDS of 168 ppm and 12 grains of hardness per gallon.
- We have had experience in a previous home with salt brine water softeners and both my wife and I did not like the slimy never feeling clean feel on our skin of the treated water. Some people think the slimy feel is a clean feel but most of the people I know with salt water softeners give this as their biggest complaint. One friend of mine says “it’s like you can not rinse off the soap”.
Weekly Results and Observations
End of week one:
- Noticed immediate personal hygiene product changes that included less shampoo on hair and both my wife and I believe our hair and skin to be softer feeling. The hand soap lathers more without the slimy feel like our previous water softener. I have stopped using my hair conditioner as well.
- We have a black mate finish granite sink in the kitchen that no longer has white water spots and film. The white film that previously built up in the sink and around the base of the plumbing fixtures has not reappeared after initial cleaning. In the past we had to clean with Kaboom product weekly. (I will miss Billy Mays he got us started on Kaboom years ago.)
- Stopped using Jet dry in dishwasher and found no water spots on glassware or dishes.
- Our master bath has antique bronze finish on plumbing fixtures and the shower glass frame. Prior to test we cleaned the shower with Kaboom to remove any old lime scale build up, something we had to do on a weekly basis prior to test. Noticed very few hard water spots on shower glass and none on the dark frame. There is no need to clean with Kaboom at this time.
- The toilet in the less used basement bathroom had a hard water ring in it prior to test and noticed that it has disappeared after 6 days of Hydrocare installation.
Week Two:
- Pretty much the same observations as in week one with some exceptions as noted.
- Did notice some evaporative spotting in the shower glass in the master bath. Having talked with other Hydrocare users, this is to be expected for the first month or so, as the Hydrocare unit is removing the old built up lime scale which passes through the shower in solution with the water. The big difference VS the untreated water before, is that the evaporative spots DO NOT stick to the glass but can be removed with a damp cloth with out the use of Kaboom or other harsher cleaning chemicals. The spots are more of a powdery residue instead of a hard scaly build up.
- The built up lime scale on our shower head has reduced by about 50% in the 2 weeks.
- On Saturday, I washed my wife’s car which is dark charcoal gray color and I noticed hardly any water spots on the car. Before Hydrocare I would wash the car in the driveway and then pull into the garage to dry to avoid eater spots. The few water spots this time were like the spots in the shower and came off with a damp towel.
Thank you
Terry Doane
Alabama Pure Water Company, Inc
We live 30 miles outside a small town in rural northwest Arizona where the water is extremely hard. We get our water from a well surrounded by granite and limestone. Before we got the HydroCare Wave Hard Water Solution, we had white residue on everything that contained water. Our dishware and cooking utensils would come out of the dishwater covered with hard water residue. Our toilets, made of smooth ceramic, became rough and had to be brushed down after every use. Our shower heads had to be taken off and soaked in CLR or vinegar at least every month because the water flow became severely restricted. Even the filters in the main water faucets had to be soaked every month. Then we purchased the HydroCare unit. We noticed a difference within 2 weeks, Now 3 months later, the water coming from our faucets no longer has strings of minerals in it. The ceramic toilet bowls are once again smooth and shiny. The dishes come out of the dishwasher sparkling clean with no residue. I unconditionally endorse the HydroCare system.
Keith R. Harvey
Just a quick note to let you know how happy we are with our HydroCare unit, and for helping us become so forgetful! Yes, I said forgetful. We use to have that big old clunky Water Softener in the laundry room, which took up a lot of area. Storing the Salt was always a challenge as well. The regular maintenance and having to buy and add the salt was always at the bottom of my list for chores to do! On top of that, the water softener made the house water “feel” funny, and I don’t think it always lived up to it’s reputation to prevent lime scale from forming on the shower walls and doors – we always had some lime scale residue from it.
Now, with our new HydroCare unit we never have to worry about the Water Softener. Once the unit was up and running we’ve completely forgotten about it. We’ve forgotten that we had to have maintenance on the Softener, we’ve forgotten that we had to buy salt, and forgotten how to even add salt to the softener. We’ve forgotten about how much area in the laundry room the old softener took up! We’ve forgotten how the water “felt”. And best of all, we’ve forgotten what it is like to have to use special caustic products to get the residual lime deposits off the shower walls and doors.
Thanks for helping us become so forgetful and simplifying our lives! We really appreciate it!
Thomas and Patricia Bushman
Just a short note to say thank you. My wife and I purchased a new dishwasher and within a short period of time the stainless portion of the internal cabinet was totally covered with white lime scale. We attached the HC 38 to the cold water side of our Rinnai tankless water heater as per your directions. I might add that the installation was simpler than I could ever have imagined. It took less than 10 minutes. After washing our first load of dishes, my wife and I were amazed as to how clean the dishwasher cabinet had become. In fact, it looked brand new again. We also take extreme comfort in the realization that your HydroCare HC 38 is also keeping the heat exchanger of our Rinnai tankless water heater from scale build up as well. You have a great product! Thanks again.
William S. Stephenson, Jr.
York County Natural Gas Authority
HydroCare,
We found your company quite by accident while looking for “true” green solutions on the Internet one night for our Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Consulting Company – GrenovationX.
Intrigued by the idea of the engineering behind the product, we proceeded to educate ourselves on the product history, and chose to test a unit on our own home before marketing to others in our local area.
The HydroCare unit arrived within days… small, and in less than 5 minutes was installed with more effort in clearing a path to the hot water heater tank, than to click it on and plug it in.
My wife had grown up with soft well water, she was happy to see that although she could notice the soft feel of the water, it wasn’t too much to where she felt like she couldn’t get soap off of her hands. She was happy!
The spots on the glasses were immediately and significantly reduced. Within days most spots were fine and powdery, and hardly noticeable even without polishing.
The next step was when my wife noticed the reverse of build up at sink faucets. The white build up changed to a bluish green, and then disappeared as the process of build-up was reversed! Some corrosion has already occurred due to the years of the minerals eating away at it, but it’s back to bare metal nonetheless! I know it must be working inside the system as well because we have noticed a 25% saving on our hot water energy usage!
We’ve now taken it to a local restaurant as our first client…and they love it too!
You can’t beat this product for simple, easy to install, effective and cost efficient. This product will change the water softener industry…thanks HydroCare!
Gregory Farnham
GrenovationX@san.rr.com
Thank you so much for allowing me to provide my input on the HydroCare unit. Prior to agreeing to sell the HydroCare unit, I was cautious. We have been raised believing that water softeners were the only way to beat hard water deposits. So with great skepticism, I installed a HydroCare unit on to the water system in my own home. I felt that if it did not perform for my family, there would be no way I could sell the product to my clients. After installing the unit, my wife noticed a huge difference in how her hair care products were performing for the better. I allowed the system to work for approximately 30 days and felt it was time to put it to the ultimate test. We own a dark blue Chevrolet Suburban. It was a circus when washing it at home because of the water spots forming before I could dry it off. With the HydroCare unit working, I washed the Suburban and stepped back without a towel in my hand – no circus act. After it air dried, I was shocked to find very few water spots if any.
As a Florida State Master Plumbing Contractor and owner of American Plumbing Solutions (APS), I have sold many HydroCare units and have received rave reviews from all of our clients. We convinced one of our large restaurant clients to bypass their water softener and install the larger HydroCare unit. We installed that in early 2008 and it has been working great for them. They were spending $75-$125 a month just on salt. The maintenance for the old softener was also a nightmare.
I am proud to back this product out of personal experience at my own home and the many homes and businesses of my clients.
Dayman T. Baker
AfC / President
American Plumbing Solutions, Inc.
My name is Art Sharkey and I have been in the water business for over 29 years. Amongst other duties I'm the water quality officer for the largest privately owned water system in the state of Oregon. For years I have dealt with customer inquirers on how to clean stains off of bathroom fixtures shower doors etc. I found some products that work but must are acid or other caustic material and require lots of elbow grease. I was looking for something that would prevent the build up of green scale caused mainly by calcium and magnesium. I found HydroCare online and it sounded interesting and also had a great guarantee. Not wanting to sell it to customer, I bought a few units and installed one of them in my own house. I took the time to flush my water heater before installation and also removed and photographed the top element of the water heater tank. Three weeks after installation of the HydroCare unit I removed the top element of the water heater and large pieces of the green scale had already dropped of the element. The other benefits have been a shower door that not longer collects that white hard to remove hard water stain, easy to clean toilet bowls just using a brush, and squeaky clean dishes and glass wear from the dishwasher without any jet dry! I now sell HydroCare to our water company customers because the product works.
Art Sharkey
I would like to update you on the results that I have experienced at my home with the HydroCare unit.
As I have mentioned, my water is extremely hard (130 gr/gal.). I have a 4 cu. Ft. softener installed and it cannot keep up with the demand from my family of 4. I also have 2.5 ppm of iron as well. The conditioning of my water has always been a challenge.
After I installed you unit, I left the softener in service to take care of the iron issue. Immediately, I noticed a change in the water as the HydroCare unit seemed to be cleaning the scale and residue from the piping and showerheads. After about 3 days the water was totally clear and I felt comfortable with bypassing my softener. The day that I bypassed my softener I wanted to run a test to see just how well your equipment could handle the hardness. Well, we have a dishwasher that we could never use because everything would come out coated with white residue. In addition, the stainless steel interior was totally coated white from our attempts to use it. Just before I left that morning, I loaded the dishwasher with a variety of glassware, silverware and plastic items. I turned the unit on and left for work. When I returned that evening, I opened the door to the washer and I was amazed to find that the dishes, glasses and silverware were clean and spotless. Also, the interior of the washer was bright stainless again. This feat was accomplished without any rinse agent as the container was never filled.
We have continued to enjoy the wonderful water thanks to your HydroCare unit.
Dave
Bill,
I ordered some C45 industrial units about 9 months ago for some sprinkle systems on a disposal pond. The water in these ponds is very hard and contains a large amount of calcium-carbonate. Before I put the units on we were constantly scaling off our pumps and sprinklers. This is not acceptable because downtime for these ponds can cost the company a lot of money. One of the biggest costs was removing the pumps from the system and shipping them off to get an acid bath to clean all of the scale off. Since we installed the C45 units we have not had to acid bath the pumps, and the sprinkler heads are staying scale free.
Thanks
Casey Curts Carter
Triple C Oilfield Services LLC.
