Water Conditioning Magnet X5000 For 15mm Copper/Plastic Pipes - Designed To Magnetically Treat Water - 30mm x 65mm x 30mm

Living in a hard water area we suffer from lime-scale in the water. The professionals who fittedour new combi' boiler insisted on fitting a magnet to the water inlet, to protect it from scale.With this in mind I wanted to protect our new washing machine, from the same problem. In the pastwe have used chemicals to soften the water (caldon) but this is increasingly expensive, so Ithought that I would give this magnet a try.I received this item very well packaged, with plenty of bubble-wrap to protect it. It was nothard to find out why, for as soon as I had unwrapped it and put it down, small metalobjects.....and a pair of scissors, jumped 200mm onto it! This Neodymium magnet is VERY strongand indeed comes with an A4 sheet full of warnings if it is misused or abused!Although it is powerful, it is tiny, measuring only 30mm x 30mm x 62mm and with it's two 'cable'ties, can be fitted just about anywhere. It is recommended however, that magnets should be fittedas close to the appliance to be protected, as possible.Cons: powerful, not cheap, a little flimsy.Pros: powerful, small, easy to fit.RECOMMENDED!

It appears to have helped with cutting down the limescale, and it is certainly a powerful magnet, I placed it on the rising main in the airing cupboard as it was easier to get to, the seller did say this was ok to do, so had it a while now, maybe not the be all and end all of limescale but there has been some improvement. Ignore the date on this review, had this 18 months now and recently had to have the seals on a pumped shower valve replaced (not this items fault), the chap said there was no sign of any limescale in the valve at all so along with an electronic softener which may or may not be working!? this appears to be doing a good job. 22.10.2014.

This was just another waste of money on Amazon for me. :(. I live in very hard water area and this promised so much but fulfilled nothing. I have been using it for about 4 months now and In fact my kettle etc. actually scales up more now. Utter rubbish and should get my money back but dont know if possible after 4 months! I just wish I could find a solution to my hard water problem.

So do they work or don't they? I bought this 18 months ago so enough time has passed for me to give a definitive answer - you would think. Actually, I still don't know if it works. It certainly doesn't work as described. My kettle is testament to that. It carried on scaling up as it always has. In fact, if I had written this six months ago it would have been a definitive 1 star, doesn't work. However, about then I noticed that the limescale was very flaky and, if I rinsed the kettle every few days, seemed to be reducing. Also, if I rubbed the limescale with my finger, I found it was much softer than before we installed the magnet. So soft that this week I wiped the inside of the kettle with one of those scouring sponges and it all came away very easily with no damage to the inside of the kettle. Definitely no need for a chemical descaler. Obviously, I can't wipe over the inside of my washing machine and i can't see what's going on inside my water pipes. Are they scaling up or is the lime scale soft enough for the water pressure to keep them clear? I don't know. I do know it can't be worse than it was before. I should point out that we live in a very hard water area. I can understand that someone living in a softer water area might experience a perceived improvement or a slower build-up of limescale. I'm afraid you will have to make up your own mind whether this works or not. All I can say is that the limescale seems to have changed and can be removed easily.

Our electric shower is fed directly from the mains, and recently (over the past 6 months or so) it slowly started to spew out stupid amounts of 'gravel' (hard water scale), which was physically clogging the show head. The head needed to be cleaned after every shower, there was that much of it. I was thinking that I was just going to have to resign myself to the process of buying a new electric shower every few years, but the expense was putting me off that route.So, I thought I'd try one of these magnets, even though the science behind them isn't clearly understood (or, at least, not clearly communicated). 'Nothing ventured,....' I thought.I didn't have very high hopes of it working, especially with the amount of scale that our shower was churning out - but it worked !!Within two days the shower had completely stopped producing any scale at all, and it remains that way. It's a joy to use the shower again, without having to de-scale it every time!I was skeptical, but it does seem to work, and quickly too.For me, it was definitely worth the small expense...!

This is just a bar magnet, not a pair; thus the field strength is from north to south rather than two north to south on each of an opposing pair.The magnet is not shaped to fit/surround a 15mm pipe, unlike other.the plastic box with tie wraps had no prepared cut-outs for a 15mm pipe.I suspect you should avoid for better value ones...