Overview
Touch of Class is a dry cleaner and laundry facility in Apollo Beach, Florida. The facility has all the laundry and dry-cleaning equipment on the premises.
Challenges
The dry cleaners needed a way to keep the boiler from scaling up and causing an explosion. They had been injecting chemicals and renting a water softener. These strategies helped keep the boiler clean and pass semi-annual state inspections for safety. After the owner caught the water softening company “short bagging” him on a salt delivery, he went looking for other options.
Solution
A commercial ScaleBlaster unit was installed on the main waterline entering the building.
Installed
April 2001
Outcome
A few months after installation the inspector came in. The boiler was cleaner than it had ever been while using chemicals and a water softener. The state inspector could not believe it! No chemicals were added. No water softener was in use. No more bags of salt were added. A totally maintenance-free system from ScaleBlaster. ScaleBlaster’s payback period was a quick one with saving in water, salt and renting the equipment. In addition, the laundry whites are whiter, colors don’t fade as much and collars come out cleaner.
Founder and Co-Owner of Clearwater Enviro Technologies
Jeff Conway is the founder and co-owner of Clearwater Enviro Technologies, which opened in 1989 from the city it started from – Clearwater, Florida. The first product line was the Clearwater Pool Systems with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as it’s company spokesman. In 1995, the electronic water conditioner ScaleBlaster was added to the product line. Jeff was born in Auburn, Indiana but grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is a graduate of Florida Southern College in 1978 and has resided in the Tampa Bay area ever since. Several products have evolved over the years, making the company the largest manufacturer of mineral ionization equipment and electronic water conditioners in the world.