Why does my house have much more limescale than my neighbour's (who does not have a water softener)

[harrietfromharrow]

My cleaner cleans for myself and the neighbours. She is absolutely convinced we have much more limescale than them.
Why could this be? They don't have a water softener. Is the amount of limescale somehow affected by the material pipes are made from??
Their bathrooms are newish too. Ours have been in a year and show so much limescale already and it's a constant battle involving a bottle of Viakal and lemon juice!

Not much help on comparison to your neighbours but we have just moved area and the new house is in a hard water area. The limescale in the ensuite was pretty bad and this week I discovered a miracle cleaner..
HG scale away.
worked a treat and I now have a shiney shower :)

Does your neighbour go over the sinks/bathroom inbetween the cleaners visits with limescale remover?

Do you have more people in your house or use the bathrooms more frequently?

try Parazone Bleach blocks in the WC cistern. Not Bloo or Yellow or green, must be Parazone Bleach Blocks.

Take a photo of the cistern the day you put in in, and again in a month or so when you need to put in a new one. You will be surprised to see the limescale is dissolving away. It does the same in the pan.

Pigley I will look that up. Nope wildstrawb we don't have more people or use them more as far as I know.

One bathroom seems worse than the other too which is weird.

Piglet, good one but that will only sort the loo out and I'm concerned about my shiny newish bathroom fittings just getting gunkier and gunkier :(

I wonder if it might be the hot water? Hot water cylinders accumulate quite a lot of scale inside, so that amount won't be coming out of the taps.

Combis don't accumulate so much, but it is worse if they do, as they can get obstructions.

You might like to think about a softener.

I wonder if it might be the hot water? Hot water cylinders accumulate quite a lot of scale inside, so that amount won't be coming out of the taps.

Combis don't accumulate so much, but it is worse if they do, as they can get obstructions.

You might like to think about a softener.

Thanks Piglet.

The bathroom with the worst of it has a new combi so it can't be that by the sounds of it?

Possible the old tank that feeds other parts of the house (two different systems - odd I know) could be scaled up though.

Dp insists a softener will reduce water flow so doesn't want one.

yes, it will , though if you have a combi, you can get larger hoses and valves to improve the flow. With a tank system, it doesn't matter.