WEBVTT - How healthy is your water?  

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<v Speaker 1>Eight eleven here on the Morning show on seven hundred WLW.

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<v Speaker 1>We do this every single Thursday at this time we

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<v Speaker 1>get together. You hear him on better than two hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and seventy five stations syndicated nationwide, and we're happy that

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<v Speaker 1>his home base is right here in the Buckeye State

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<v Speaker 1>and Cincinnati, Ohio. Talking about our friend Gary Sullivan. Happy

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<v Speaker 1>New Year, my friend.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, happy New Year to you. Tom. How you doing

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<v Speaker 2>doing great? How about you? I'm doing really really well.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope your holiday went well.

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<v Speaker 2>It went great. Do you have a lot of family time?

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<v Speaker 1>I sure did, and it was a fantastic Hope you

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<v Speaker 1>did too, Yep, sure did. Okay, we've been talking and

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people talk all the time about New

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<v Speaker 1>Year's resolutions, right, and we were talking the other day

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<v Speaker 1>that seventy nine percent of those has to do with

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<v Speaker 1>people getting in better physical shape.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right, A lot about health right now, Yes it is.

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<v Speaker 1>But look, there's also some New Year's resolutions you can

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<v Speaker 1>have with your home and talk about regularly. There is

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<v Speaker 1>no bigger investment for most of us out there than

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<v Speaker 1>what we invest in our homes, and so you want

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<v Speaker 1>to keep them in tip top shape. Let's start with

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<v Speaker 1>the most basic thing we need in life besides air,

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<v Speaker 1>and that would be water.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, that ties into the health thing also, tom is

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<v Speaker 3>you know in a lot of parts and it's been

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<v Speaker 3>in the news over the years, you know, a number

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<v Speaker 3>of years back with flint, Michigan and everything. How safe

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<v Speaker 3>is our water? And I want to say upfront, some

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<v Speaker 3>of the most safe water in the United States is

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<v Speaker 3>right here in the Great six sinety area. It's wonderful water,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's very hard water. Lots of limestone, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>limestone's good for racehorses and bourbon.

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<v Speaker 2>That's so good for our home.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, you're right about that. Okay. We hear all

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<v Speaker 1>the time about water softeners, right, and there are some

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<v Speaker 1>that you salt, there are some that don't.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you walk us through sort of the differences if

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<v Speaker 1>you're thinking about a water softener here in twenty twenty six, yep.

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<v Speaker 3>So there's three water quality products out there. There's salt

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<v Speaker 3>free water softeners. You may have heard it advertised. That's

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<v Speaker 3>very appealing to somebody that doesn't want to carry fifty

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<v Speaker 3>pounds bags of salt down into the basement.

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<v Speaker 1>Which I do all the time.

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<v Speaker 3>So do I And also there's parts of the country

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<v Speaker 3>now that have brine restrictions. In other words, that salt

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<v Speaker 3>flushes out the system, okay when it collects hard water deposits,

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<v Speaker 3>and that brine goes down into the sewerage system which

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<v Speaker 3>goes into the waterways. And there's some people different parts

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<v Speaker 3>of the country now I have some brain restrictions. So

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<v Speaker 3>that's one and I'll explain the difference between the two.

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<v Speaker 3>And the other one is the one you and I

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<v Speaker 3>are used to, the water softener that you put the

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<v Speaker 3>salt in the big salt tube.

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<v Speaker 2>And away you go. Now, the whole thing what a

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<v Speaker 2>water softener is is it takes.

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<v Speaker 3>Out or eliminates hard water that's the minerals in the water.

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<v Speaker 3>So the salt free is not really a water softener,

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<v Speaker 3>so it's not really taking out hard water deposits. What

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<v Speaker 3>it's doing is the sult free softeners actually removed the

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<v Speaker 3>They change the molecular structure of the minerals in the water,

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<v Speaker 3>which allows it to pass.

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<v Speaker 2>Through you know, your water heater, your shower and everything.

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<v Speaker 3>And what they've done is they've charged the hard water

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<v Speaker 3>particles so that it does not stick on metal surfaces.

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<v Speaker 3>The salt free or that's the salt free, the salt type.

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<v Speaker 3>It starts kind of collecting those, Okay, it's not really

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<v Speaker 3>charging them. So when you put the salt in there,

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<v Speaker 3>it's removing the hard ware deposits. It's really the best

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<v Speaker 3>soft water. It's actually giving you soft water, good for

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<v Speaker 3>your skin, good for your clothes, good for your water here,

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<v Speaker 3>good for your showers. It's it's soft water. It's removing it,

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<v Speaker 3>and then the salt flushes it out.

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<v Speaker 2>Of the system.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, a lot of people when they get salt in

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<v Speaker 3>a system, they're they're they're they're afraid that they're going

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<v Speaker 3>to be ingesting salt. It's not that's going down the

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<v Speaker 3>i'll say sewer, septic whatever. It's kind of removing it.

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<v Speaker 3>It allows the soap to lather better. It really is

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<v Speaker 3>eliminating the hard water. And again that's salt free. It's

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<v Speaker 3>just charging the particles in there. It's keeping the hard

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<v Speaker 3>water from sticking on glass, on metal. It's just allowing

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<v Speaker 3>that hard water to not adhere to something in your

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<v Speaker 3>plumbing system. It's going right down the drain, but you

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<v Speaker 3>don't get the benefits of the i'll say, good.

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<v Speaker 2>For your skin, good for your clothes, your hair. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that type of thing. So that's the two main differences.

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<v Speaker 3>Then there's a third one and it's not a water softener,

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<v Speaker 3>and that's a product. A lot of people get very confused.

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<v Speaker 3>They think, well, water softener is really bringing up the

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<v Speaker 3>quality of water, and it is from a hardness standpoint.

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<v Speaker 2>But a reverse osmosis, I don't know if you have

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<v Speaker 2>one of those in your home or not.

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<v Speaker 3>Those are usually point of use, like underneath the kitchen

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<v Speaker 3>sink or in the bathroom. And what it does is

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<v Speaker 3>a company will come and they will test for chemicals

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<v Speaker 3>in your water. Like I said, in the Cincinnati area,

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<v Speaker 3>we got pretty good water. But you may be surprised.

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<v Speaker 3>There may be maybe you're someone that doesn't want fluoride

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<v Speaker 3>in your water. Maybe in olders areas you have a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of lead pipes that will test for lead. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>you're receiving good water, but then as it goes through

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<v Speaker 3>an old plumbing system, by the time you drink it,

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<v Speaker 3>it's not so good. So they'll test for lead, they'll

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<v Speaker 3>test for fluoride, they'll test for chlorine chlorine, And that's

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<v Speaker 3>what a reverse osmosis is. It goes through like three

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<v Speaker 3>if you install one, it'll go through like three sets

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<v Speaker 3>of filter and it'll actually filter out those different chemicals.

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<v Speaker 2>That are in your water.

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<v Speaker 3>So that's totally different from the water softener. So there's

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<v Speaker 3>really two that you need to pay attention to. One

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<v Speaker 3>is the water softener that's for hardness, like over in

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<v Speaker 3>the Milford area.

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<v Speaker 2>Very very hard water.

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<v Speaker 3>A lot of heating elements go out because of the

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<v Speaker 3>hard water, and probably a lot of showers don't look so.

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<v Speaker 2>Good because of the hard water.

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<v Speaker 3>But get your water tested and just see how hard

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<v Speaker 3>it is, and when you're there, do a test on

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<v Speaker 3>the actual chemicals in the water, and then you can

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<v Speaker 3>make a decision if you want to do one nune

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<v Speaker 3>or both of them.

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<v Speaker 1>So it sounds like, correct me if I'm wrong here,

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<v Speaker 1>But it sounds like if you're really interested in the

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<v Speaker 1>healthiest possible water just in one particular area, and you're

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<v Speaker 1>talking about this reverse osmosis, that would really be the

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<v Speaker 1>focal point. It sounds like, if I hear what you're saying,

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<v Speaker 1>where you might clean food and all those kinds of

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<v Speaker 1>things would be in the kitchen.

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<v Speaker 3>Right right, I would say probably ninety percent of them

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<v Speaker 3>are put right on the kitchen. Some of them have

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<v Speaker 3>to have another spout through a granite countertop. Yeah, a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of people don't like doing. I think it was

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<v Speaker 3>Culligan about seven eight years ago. They came up with

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<v Speaker 3>a system where it's bluetooth. There's a switch and it

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<v Speaker 3>literally shuts the water supply going straight up from the

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<v Speaker 3>pipes and it sends it through the osmosis system and

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<v Speaker 3>out the spout.

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<v Speaker 2>Bottom line there, not to confuse anybody, is you don't

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<v Speaker 2>have to drill through the countertop. Okay, so that, but.

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<v Speaker 3>The kitchen areas certainly tom where you want to put it,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, And quite honestly, it's just like a breed

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<v Speaker 3>a water filtering system on steroids.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to get back to something you said a

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<v Speaker 1>minute ago about some of the stuff that would go

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<v Speaker 1>into say the sewage and then into some waterways. Most

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<v Speaker 1>people are on some kind of sewage system. There are

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<v Speaker 1>some of us who are septic. You touched on that

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<v Speaker 1>for a minute. If you are someone who has a

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<v Speaker 1>septic system, does this stuff mess that up?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, it's so diluted, I would say no.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, it's not really a reason to totally walk

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<v Speaker 3>away from the salt type water softeners. But I also

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<v Speaker 3>want to say it depends on how much water you

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<v Speaker 3>actually use. And again that's why it's really good to

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<v Speaker 3>work with somebody to do those studies. Like I was

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<v Speaker 3>in a home depot the other day and they got

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<v Speaker 3>a home water softener for a thousand bucks on the shelf.

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<v Speaker 2>Install it yourself, but I.

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<v Speaker 3>Really recommend working with a plumber or a professional where

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<v Speaker 3>they can really give you what's best for you. I

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<v Speaker 3>think that's what I want to give everybody a shout

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<v Speaker 3>out is let's do it right. Let's address all the needs.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's address the chemicals, Let's address the minerals. Let's address

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<v Speaker 3>how much water you're using. Let's dress how.

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<v Speaker 2>Long that water softener is going to last.

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<v Speaker 3>I've had both in my home and the ones over

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<v Speaker 3>the shelf. You're probably gonna get about seven years out

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<v Speaker 3>of just by the mechanics of it.

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<v Speaker 2>And maybe your better brands.

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<v Speaker 3>You might get fifteen twenty years out of it, right,

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<v Speaker 3>and they're probably double the price. But I'll tell you

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<v Speaker 3>when I switched mine out, and this has probably been

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<v Speaker 3>about eight years ago, now, I could instantly.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell the difference. There's no doubt there was a pig difference.

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<v Speaker 3>So really, I think the step number one is if

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<v Speaker 3>you're always complaining that it's so hard to clean the shower,

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<v Speaker 3>there's water deposits, there's water spots on the glasses, on

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<v Speaker 3>the shower doors, on this that get the water tested.

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<v Speaker 3>It doesn't it doesn't cost you anything. Just let's find

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<v Speaker 3>out what's in the water. And especially if you have

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<v Speaker 3>you know, you were talking like or I was talking

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<v Speaker 3>about over and over in the Milford area, right, very

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<v Speaker 3>hard water. But there's also some older century type palms,

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<v Speaker 3>and I don't know what type of service line of

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<v Speaker 3>water you have coming into that home.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what kind of pipes you have in

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<v Speaker 2>that home.

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<v Speaker 3>And if there are lead pipes, and there's still plenty around,

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<v Speaker 3>you may have some lead in those pipes, not coming

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<v Speaker 3>from the municipality, but coming from your own home exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>So let's find out what's in the water. It doesn't

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<v Speaker 3>mean everybody has to have one. We were talking about

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<v Speaker 3>New Year's resolution and healthy water.

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<v Speaker 2>There it is. Let's find out what's in the water.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's do that. Let's find out what's in the water

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<v Speaker 2>and take some action. If it's bad news, it's great stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>Gary, you are the best my friend again, Happy New

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<v Speaker 1>Year and thank you for your expertise. This is great stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, Tom. Look forward to next week.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, buddy Gary Sullivan. You can hear him on fifty

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<v Speaker 1>five KRC Saturday and Sundays from nine until noon and

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<v Speaker 1>syndicated nationally on nearly three hundred radio stations across America