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Originally Posted by Red ones
Not true.
The salts in hard water act as a buffer and raise the pH without them the pH drops below 7.
Copper will suffer pitting at even pH6 which then creates corrosive sulphates. (These cause the blue lining you see inside pipework when you cut it)
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riddle me this then... i have soft water but the pH is 8-8.5