Save Enery Now

This familiar site of the "Nodding Donkey" can be seen in many countries around the world. It brings fame and fortune to those lucky enough to find OIL on their land and has fuelled happiness and sadness alike. The TV show DALLAS due for a re-launch is based on the great oil wealth of Texas and shows the rich and greedy at the peak of nastiness.

Compare if you will then the sad state of much of the earth subject to global warming to the point where the seas are becoming so depleted of fish stocks that whole species are being wiped out and fish catches are diminishing.

Politicans eager to gain political acclaim shout many new "Save Energy" slogans and even some give money to help houses to reduce energy costs.

One cause of energy loss that YOU can do something about now is the removal and prevention of limescale. The crystallisation of CHALK in your plumbing caused by hard water will cause you loss of energy by reducing significantly the efficiency of the heat exchangers, shortening the life of your appliances and of course producing unsightly scum.

This can be stopped and reversed NOT by lugging great bags of salt around the house and chucking waste water down the drain but with the latest efficient electronic water softening device, the LITTLE PLUMBER www.littleplumber.com.

The cost of one of these units will be SAVED in the first year by increasing your energy efficiency and will cause that donkey to nod just one or two times less.

More money in your pocket and less in the oil supplier. Better for the earth as well as better for you.

VOLCANIC PROBLEMS

ASH CLOUD over Britain

The eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland is enough for us to realise the power of nature. It can be seen for miles and it affects not only those people living near it in Iceland but also aircraft who are at risk flying through the sand and dust it throws up miles into the heavens.

The power of nature is strong indeed and the energy released is also huge. The fact that it is so newsworthy is because it is so easy to see the raw power of a volcanic eruption and the devastating consequences.

The power of nature is also at work in areas of the world which suffer from hard water. The dissolved salts of chalk present in the mains water which comes into you property rapidly come out of solution and re-crystallises as chalk again. The name CHALK is replaced with LIMESCALE and as we know the effects can be just as devastating in the long term as a volcanic eruption.

If you added together the cost of all the energy wasted, all the domestic appliances ruined, all the extra washing up liquids, shampoos and cleaners used in the U.K. in one year it would be more than the cost of one volcanic outburst.

While we can wait for Grimsvotn to die down and the dust the settle, the all pervading problem of limescale continue unabated.

But help is at hand. No need to ground the planes, just install a Little Plumber and your problems will be solved.

The amount of energy you save in the first year of use with a Little Plumber will cover the cost of the unit and the cost of operation…..about £2.00 a year.

Sometimes the raw power of nature can be reversed and so easily and at so little cost.

Cappuccino time

THE DEAN SWIFT in Butlers Wharf London ordered an LP2 unit back in May of 2010 to put on it's coffee machine.

Max, the manager is thrilled with the results. "We used to always be pouring descaler fluid through the coffee machine which ran slower and slower because of the build-up of limescale. Now since May we have had no problems. The LP2 was very easy to fit and I am surprised more pubs and cafes don't install them....and the coffee....tastes great!"

The fact is that without any chemicals or additional plumbing, the LP2 has saved the Dean Swift a lot of effort and kept the coffee coming at minimal cost.

Increased Energy Costs

This little unit is the LP2. Hardly bigger than a packet of 20 cigarettes (not that I smoke any more) and yet with the power to cut your heating bills by up to 40%.

The reason is simple. If you have hard water, you have limescale. If you have limescale you will have a thick encrustation of it on your heat exchangers in your boiler or other hot water generator. This means that your heat exchangers are actually LAGGED with limescale and so instead of the heat being exchanged efficiently, the scale acts as an INSULATOR and so 40% at least of the energy is lost.

With an LP2 we absolutely GUARANTEE to remove and prevent limescale all over your property or you get your money back in full.

Wouldn't you like a clean shower, scale free kettle, shiny taps?

Just install a Litlle Plumber LP1 or LP2 or other model of choice and "Bob's your Uncle"...job done!

Little Plumbers! Do they work?

If there is anyone out there who has had a Little Plumber product from us or any of our stockists during the last 10 years and has found that it does not work then please put a post on

http://boakes.org/do-electronic-limescale-inhibitors-work/

We would be grateful

LITTLE PLUMBER SAVES THE DAY

De Vere venues at Milton Park near Abingdon had a big problem in their Leisure Centre. The Centre consists of a Gym. Swimming Pool, Jacuzzi. Sauna and a Steam Room. All in all a really nice place to be and somewhere the guests at the Hotel visit regularly. Leisure Club Members however noticed that the Steam Room was rarely working. There was always a problem because as it transpired, the steam generator kept clogging up with limescale and stopping. Despite many visits from the service engineer the problem persisted until someone had the bright idea of fitting a Little Plumber unit LP3.

From the time it was fitted which was nearly 10 months ago until today there has been NO BREAKDOWN and the resident maintenance engineer is thrilled. "What's more, we haven't even had to change or replace the steam canister once (a Carel Humisteam) which normally needs changing twice a year. There is no need to and there is just no limescale in the unit, just a small amount of sludge in the bottom of the unit which seems to cause no problem"

The saving to De Vere has promted a letter from the Manager Gary which we add below and is self explanitory. Well done Little Plumber!

Dear Mr Beaumont

22nd January 2010

When you originally approached us with a solution to the never-ending problem of the steam generation canister scaling up with the resultant closure of the steam room, I was along with our maintenance manager somewhat dubious.

Well the LP3 unit, which we installed, has done the job brilliantly and to my knowledge the down time for the steam room has been zero.

This has of course been an excellent result and has saved us a lot of money as we have not had to change the canister nor have we had to pay call-out charges to engineers to come and fix the problem.

In addition of course our members have enjoyed continuous use of the steam room, which certainly before installation of the LP3 they were not able to do.

Kind Regards

Gary Ockwell

How to get FREE energy

Well now! Energy prices are forecast to go through the roof this year so get ready for bigger bills. Oil will cost more, electricity and gas are all going to cost more.

If you live in a hard water area, the water might be good for you heart but it's bloody awful for your pocket. Why? Because the limescale building up in your heating system is going to act as a wonderful INSULATOR and keep the heat IN the heating coils and OUT of the water you are trying to heat.

All this means that you boiler is going to pump away harder and harder to heat up the same amount of water and of course costing you more and more.

Add to this the problem with your washing machine and dishwasher not running effectively, plus the inevitable fact that they will burn out quicker in hard water than in soft and you can see that to get RID of your hard water will save you a fortune. LP units cost around £2.00 a year to run. Yes you read it right...TWO POUNDS.!!!

How much? Well if you buy a Little Plumber we will GUARANTEE you save the cost of it in the first year!!!! That's equal to FREE ENERGY in the second and subsequent years!

We are so confident in our units that we offer a full 12 month money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied. So if you don't think you have saved the cost of the unit in the first year just send it back.

Yes it's that simple. Just take a look at a photograph I took from a hot water cylinder and you'll see what I mean.

Add to this showers clogging up, taps scaling up and pipes getting narrower and you can see that and LP unit isn't just something you might consider installing.

It is ESSENTIAL.

How to get free energy

A TOUGH YEAR AHEAD

It's going to be another tough year and one of the things we will all need to do is to KEEP COSTS DOWN.

One of the costs we can control is our heating . The cleaner the heat exchangers in your boiler or hot water cylinder, the more efficiently your costly fuel or electricity will heat your water. Take a look at the well know graph shown here which explains how even a THIN LAYER of limescale will reduce the transfer of heat from the heater to the water.

Not only this, the havoc wreaked by limescale on your appliances such as dishwashers and washing machines not only means they work less efficiently but that they BREAKDOWN MORE OFTEN and inevitably need replacing sooner reducing the life of the appliance by up to 25%.

It's just common sense really. If you fit a Little Plumber which comes with a staggering 12 month no quibble money back guarantee, you'll probably save the cost of the unit in terms of increased heating efficiency.

So KEEP COSTS DOWN by fitting a Little Plumber and lets face it, since you can return it if it doesn't do what we say on the box it's a NO BRAINER!!

Eczema and Psoriasis

I have talked before about this problem and despite Nottingham University running tests on salt softeners, we never heard the results did we?

Well I am very curious to know just how effective our LP units are in the treatment of eczema and psoriasis and dry skin problems generally. Over the years we have had some spectacular successes with our electronic conditioners and given that there is no risk in trying one out (since we give a 12 month NO QUIBBLE money back guarantee) I would have thought that anyone who suffers from these conditions would have had a go.

Call me or oder on line at http://www.littleplumber.com/ and have an itch free Christmas

Nothing to lose, Everything to gain

WATER SOFTENERS

We all know when we've got hard water and limescale. It's in the kettle and shower heads and turns the end of the taps white. What we need is a water softener. Or is it? Have you ever considered that the cost of a softener can be hundreds of pounds and then you just have to keep adding salt. The saline solution from the regeneration process drains away so all in all not very environmentally friendly.
The electronic water conditioner is altogether a better and cheaper proposition to a water softener. It costs you less than it saves you in the first year and required no salt or maintenance.
Yes the Little Plumber range is 10 years old. Offering a full 12 month money back guarantee why not try one before you rush out and buy tons of salt???

SAVE ENERGY, MONEY AND THE WORLD

When you see all the huff that is printed about saving the environment you'd think nothing else mattered. Perhaps it doesn't. Perhaps if we do turn off the lights, lag our lofts, shower with a friend we WILL use less energy. Keep the foot off the gas pedal, eat less, drink less, consume less but it's all an effort. Meanwhile I want to read my book with lights that come on instantly, not take for ever to warm up. I want a hot shower NOW and I want to go faster because I want to go there....NOW.

Well here is something you can do which will save you so much energy it will literally pay for itself in the first year so effectively costing you nothing. It's the LITTLE PLUMBER electronic water de-scaler and scale prevention unit. Take a look at the picture of the scale taken from the inside of a water cylinder and you can see how it acts as an INSULATOR around the heat exchangers or immersion heater and this COSTS YOU A FORTUNE when heating up your water. So, twenty minutes and it's fitted. Simple as a pimple and looks nice too and will remove and prevent all that nasty limescale. Not only inside your heaters but also from the shower heads and everywhere else. You will also now get lovely soft water so your skin will feel softer, your hair will shine and you will have a better washday with far less soap powder. ALL THIS and a 12 month no quibble guarantee. Why wait????

Twitter

Hi guys. I have tried to get the hang of twitter. Have listened to the excited Californian drawl enthusing about it but so far I am completely lost as to what why how and where it helps. As Cameron says I think you have to be a bit of a twat to use it.

Anyone any ideas?

Two new features on our site

We have added two new features to our Little Plumber site. The first is a Win an LP1 competition. It's really easy. All you have to do is to click on the COMPETITION link and then answer the multiple choice question. We will have one winner a month and that winner will be the first person drawn at the end of the month. What can you lose? Exactly ! It's too good to miss.

The second feature is our new TESTER STRIP (pictured above) offer. All you have to do is ask and we will send you a TESTER STRIP. Just dip this in water and then when the strip changes colour, compare it to the coloured card on the site.

The best way to do this to stop you running backwards and forwards between the tap and your computer is to pour some clean tap water into a clean egg-cup or glass and bring it with you to you computer. The strips are small and can be used only once. You will soon see just how hard your water is. These strips are very accurate!

Don't forget we are always here to help and we don't have recorded messages and voice-mails. We generally answer the telephone straight and will help with any queries.

ECZEMA

ECZEMA


The aim of the Soft Water Eczema Trial (SWET) is to discover whether eczema can be improved by deliberately softening all water used in the home (except at one tap in the kitchen which will supply mains water for drinking)

Over 300 families have been invited to see whether the installation of a water softener will improve eczema and other skin conditions. The cost of this research is £1m funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme.

It seems to be pretty well known that people living in hard water areas suffer from eczema more than those in softer water areas so the experiment may well prove what many of us already know. Hard water causes more skin problems than soft water. No need to spend £1m finding that out.

So, the answer then is to install a water softener insn’t it? It seems either that or move to a soft water area. Now despite the problems associated with hard water including skin problems and certainly including the problems of limescale, hard water is actually very good for you. Everyone needs Calcium and there is a lot of it in hard water.

Calcium is essential for growing children and essential for proper cell metabolism. Without it we would have no teeth or skeletons.

It seems people who live in softer water areas where the Calcium content is lower may not suffer from skin problems but the level of heart attacks is greater. Anyway, if you use a softener you can’t drink the water and in fact require a dedicated tap in the kitchen for unsoftened water.

Now, if you want to have softer water with the Calcium still present, and you don’t want the hassle of a traditional salt filled softener and you want to get rid of eczema, you need a Little Plumber.

No chemicals or maintenance and you get a 12 MONTH MONEY BACK GUARANTEE so if your eczema doesn’t go then simply send back the LP unit for a full refund. Must be worth taking a chance! And they cost almost nothing to run and cost much less to buy than an “Old Salty”. And..you can fit them yourself.

FREE ENERGY SAVING DEVICE

FREE energy saving device

It virtually amounts to FREE ENERGY if you install a LITTLE PLUMBER water conditioner.

“Why” you ask?

If you live in a hard water area then you will undoubtedly be aware of the crusty formation of limescale around your taps and in your kettle.

What you can’t see is the layer upon layer of scale that has deposited on the heat exchangers in you boiler or hot water cylinder. These deposits can cause you huge energy loss because the heat generated simply cannot escape the heating elements to heat up the water. The limescale effectively acts as an insulator and stops generated heat from heating the water and this can cost a huge amount in extra wasted energy. Most domestic boilers in hard water areas will lose around £120 to £200 worth of energy in a year. The bigger the property, the more energy will be wasted.

Add to this the additional cost of replacing appliances like Dishwashers, Washing Machines plus the cost of corrosive chemicals to try and prevent limescale forming. Plus of course the additional cost of softeners salt and soaps to try and cope with all the problems of hard water and you can see that the total amount of money you waste each year is pretty substantial.

Enter the Little Plumber, which starts at under £100.00 and is absolutely GUARANTEED to remove and prevent limescale. In fact it is so good that Splendid Products Ltd who make the unit in Oxford will actually give you your money back if for “any reason” you are not completely satisfied with its performance.

So, by fitting a Little Plumber unit you will actually save more in a year than the unit costs you. You don’t have to be Einstein to work out that the saving is more than the cost so therefore the unit is virtually free. And if the saving in energy bills is greater than the cost of the unit then you are probably looking at a device that is not only FREE but will actually save you even more than it costs to start with.

Oh, and don’t forget…..it’s made in ENGLAND!!

Limescale prevented at Grimaldi House

Grimaldi Agencies have their UK Headquarters at Grimaldi House in St James Square in London.

They have installed a 150-litre tank, non-ventilated hot water cylinder running at 4.5 bars of pressure to heat all the water in the entire premises. The water is heated by two electric immersion heaters and it is on 24 hours a day. All might have been well if St James Square was in a soft water area but the water supply is unfortunately very hard.

The hard water caused such limescale precipitation on the immersion heaters that they had to be changed every week as they became very quickly encrusted with thick scale. This layer of scale not only increased the overall usage of electricity as the scale was preventing the heat transferring into the water but also caused the elements to fail regularly.

Banyards Ltd of Brune Street in London who are responsible for the maintenance of the hot water systems in Grimaldi House asked Splendid Products Ltd to advise on a simple method way of solving the problem which was in fact becoming something of a costly nightmare.

Splendid supplied an LP4 electronic water conditioner which was fitted by Banyards and now over three months has elapsed with no problems at all. A huge saving in terms of downtime and energy.

The LP4 costs around £3.00 a year to run and requires no maintenance once fitted. It is therefore not surprising that other facility managers are very interested in this cheap and very effective method of solving the expensive and time consuming problem of Limescale.

The LP units are all made in Oxford in the U.K. by Splendid products Limited

The Darling Buds of May

The Darling Buds of May

It really doesn’t matter what the Chancellor says in his important budget speech, the plain fact is that politicians in the main have let us the voters down, badly.

If the Darling buds are to bloom and we are to see the green shoots of recovery, we are going to have to do a hell of lot more than improve the efficiency of an over weaned, over burgeoning and generally overweight governmental system that has the weirdest bunch of groups known to man in it’s midst. Yes cut them out get rid of overpaid part-timers with their gold plated pensions and try and save the billions we need to stop generations of Britains carrying the weight of debt into the next millennium.

But there are ways we can stop waste now. We do need electric cars Mr Brown but despite hours spent on the ‘phone trying to find them I ask you seriously, where are they?

There’s a way all of us who put up with the scourge of limescale and hard water for instance can immediately stop the waste of heating up layers of scale in our boilers, make our washing machines and dishwashers last longer and generally have softer water without the need for “old salty” water softeners.

Just by fitting a Little Plumber unit in your house or premises you can save a fortune in heating bills, experience softer water and all for the magnificent sum of £3.00 a year in running costs.

Yes if you install one of these you really might start seeing the darling buds of may begin to bloom in the money you save. Your planet will thank you for it too since by using less energy you’ll produce less CO2 the greenhouse gas. It has been estimated that four power stations could be closed with the energy saved if everyone in the UK who lived in a hard water area fitted these units.
So Mr Darling, there’s something you could do straight away…just cut the tax on Little Plumbers and even give a grant to people in hard water areas towards buying one. Those darling buds might bloom quicker than you think and you wouldn’t have to sack anybody!!

WATER SOFTENERS: Water softeners convert HARD WATER into SOFT WATER

SOFT WATER is water with very few free Calcium ions CA++ and the usual method of extracting the Calcium Ions is called ION EXCHANGE. An ion exchange water softener uses special resins which are called “ion-excange resins”. The surface of these resins when they are fresh, firstly trap the Calcium ions and then release Sodium ions so removing hardness from the water but making the water richer in sodium ions. This ion exchange continues until there are so many calcium ions on the resins surface that they must be removed. This is done by adding a concentrated salt NaCl solution or BRINE and the process is called REGENERATION. The regeneration takes place in a seperate tank and it is here that the collected Calcium ions are removed and replaced once again with new Sodium ions. At this point the Sodium ions now affix themslevs to the resin releasing the Calcium ions which go back into solution and are washed away into a drain.

The resin is often in the shape a column and is itself inside a TANK of water. There is also of course a connecting REGENERATION tank.

The timing of the regeneration is oftened goverened by and timer or clock which sits on the top of the water softener. This timer can be electric or in some softeners like Kinetico the power comes from the movement of the water itself.

Water softeners need to be plumbed in by a professional plumber. The mains cold water feed into the property must be diverted through the water softener BUT a dedicated untreated cold water pipe must go to the kitchen sink to feed a drinking tap since softened water, rich in Sodium ions must not be drunk.

Salt must also be regularly put into the softener. The process of regeneration is accompanied by an alteration of water flow by an internal valve system which redirects water rich in Calcium down the drain.

ALTERNATIVES: Well you can see that the SOFTENER is a fairly complicated bit of kit. It not only needs salt but actually wastes a lot of water so people in HARD WATER areas now often choose an alternative…the electronic descaler. The Little Plumber range is among the most popular of these because not only have they been around along time but they also give a totoally unconditional 12 month full money back guarantee if the customer is not entirely happy with the performance.