i lived for 25 years in a home in which we had artisan well water-
everything had had huge lime deposits-
i used salt as you did-
to solve the problem of the teapot-I switched to a glass
teapot-"Whistler"-the openings were wide enough for a dainty hand to clean
the inside and then used salt and rinsed thoughly
joanne
"Sam" > wrote in message
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> hi there,i am trying to revitalise a kettle which had accumulated
> some hard water deposits.
>
> i boiled some undiluted white vinegar in it and left for a few hours.i
> looked down the lid and the chrome coloured element was shiny as new.
>
> to keep it new i decided to use bottled water in it from now on.
>
> a few weeks later i noticed floating particles in my tea. i checked
> the kettle to find quite a 1cm white formation growing on a part of
> the element. in addition some areas of the element had green corrosion
> marks.
>
> Any ideas what is going on down there?How do you clean your kettles?
> thanks,
>
> Sam