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Q: Our outdoor water softener was destroyed by Hurricane Irma. I ordered a new General Electric water softener online from Home Depot. It was delivered and installed by a contractor I hired.

All boilers and cooling towers need a water softener to help to prevent scale on heat transfer surfaces. It’s important to maintain these softeners to avoid equipment or machinery failures, and ...