Started from a stuck valve.
Cerablock started as an engineering problem, not a marketing idea: hard-water scale was quietly wrecking fixtures, water heaters, and appliance valves years before anyone noticed. Salt-based softeners worked, but needed plumbing changes, ongoing salt, and maintenance most homeowners weren't equipped for.
The question became: could conditioning happen inline, with no salt and no moving parts, and could we prove — on a fixed timeline — that it was actually working?