Glass kettles and hard(ish) water.

[Balmoral Green]

We don't live in a particularly hard water area, but our kettle does fur up inside and around the spout after a few years, so it needs a de scale every now & then.

You know those electric kettles that are almost all clear glass? Do they scale up just the same?

Thanks in advance.

[saaby93]

Spout furs up a bit but mostly it's the metal base plate covering the heating element
The rest of the glass stays clear

[Balmoral Green]

saaby93 said:

mostly it's the metal base plate covering the heating element
The rest of the glass stays clear

Thanks, that what I thought. The base will be easy enough to de scale periodically.

[A14RGS]

Hi.
We live in a hard water area and fill the kettle with water filtered through a Brita filter jug. Our kettle is glass and it still frequently gets skanky with limescale, even when using filtered water, especially when the filter has been used for 2-3 weeks. Of course, being glass, it's easy to see when it needs cleaning. A quick scrub with a pan scourer and soapy water has the glass clean again - until next time

[clarkey318is]

A14RGS said:

Hi.
We live in a hard water area and fill the kettle with water filtered through a Brita filter jug. Our kettle is glass and it still frequently gets skanky with limescale, even when using filtered water, especially when the filter has been used for 2-3 weeks. Of course, being glass, it's easy to see when it needs cleaning. A quick scrub with a pan scourer and soapy water has the glass clean again - until next time

I found the Brita filtered water to hardly scale up at all. Good stuff indeed.

[saaby93]

A14RGS said:

Hi.
We live in a hard water area and fill the kettle with water filtered through a Brita filter jug. Our kettle is glass and it still frequently gets skanky with limescale, even when using filtered water, especially when the filter has been used for 2-3 weeks. Of course, being glass, it's easy to see when it needs cleaning. A quick scrub with a pan scourer and soapy water has the glass clean again - until next time

never tried it but I'd heard there were two routes to removing scale
1) a few drops of vinegar in the boil
2) dishwasher tablet - a whole one sounds excessive!

[annodomini2]

saaby93 said:

A14RGS said:

Hi.
We live in a hard water area and fill the kettle with water filtered through a Brita filter jug. Our kettle is glass and it still frequently gets skanky with limescale, even when using filtered water, especially when the filter has been used for 2-3 weeks. Of course, being glass, it's easy to see when it needs cleaning. A quick scrub with a pan scourer and soapy water has the glass clean again - until next time

never tried it but I'd heard there were two routes to removing scale
1) a few drops of vinegar in the boil
2) dishwasher tablet - a whole one sounds excessive!

Best way I've found (we live in a hard water area so its needs doing regularly):

1. Fill with water and bring to boil, put a denture cleaning tablet in and leave over night.

2. In morning, Wipe round with cloth (leave water in)

3. Drain most of water.

4. Put Lemon juice on the cloth and wipe round again.

5. Rinse thoroughly, fill boil again and drain water (lemon can leave a taste)