I'm pretty sure the calcium deposited on your pipes in the past few months will gradually come off. You might get a clump which comes loose at once, though.
As a kid, every summer when canning with my mother we would heat large quantities of hot, softened water in the kettle which was normally used for boiling untreated water for our tea, and after a while a year's accumulation of minerals would come off.
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Date: Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:49 am (UTC)As a kid, every summer when canning with my mother we would heat large quantities of hot, softened water in the kettle which was normally used for boiling untreated water for our tea, and after a while a year's accumulation of minerals would come off.