Calgon - is it worth bothering with it?

[charlieandlola]

have always lived in soft water areas but have moved recently to horrid hard water area.
is it worth using calgon in every wash ? will my washing machine last a year or become furred up with limescale/
Am using water filters for drinking water but did not think about appliances.
Seems v expensive - more expensive than washing powder -so need convincing

I tried to get a washing powder without any "calgon' inside for DD1 sensitive skins. They all have it already in now if you buy one of the main brand... You might have a bit more choice if you have access to biological powder.
I wouldn't bother.
I have lived in different part of the world and UK, never had a washing machine breaking down because of the limescale, even very old one. (always been a program fatal error or really old age!)
But their advert is very scary!

I don't buy Calgon ,but I buy supermarket own brand water softener powder. Its much cheaper and does help I think. Before I used it ( ours is the worst area in the country for hard water) we had terrible build up if limescale in the filter, now it is much less.
I buy approx 1 box per month ,cost £1.75 ish. Not too bad to save my machine a bit longer.