Commercial water filtration
Cafés, restaurants, offices, salons, gyms and any premises where water is an ingredient or where scale is eating your equipment.
Commercial water treatment differs from domestic in three ways that all matter more than the hardware does. Flow rates are higher, so equipment sized for a house will not cope. Downtime is expensive, so bypasses and duty-standby arrangements earn their cost. And there is usually somebody who will want to see records.
By sector
Cafés and coffee shops
Scale destroys espresso machines. What to fit, how to size it, and why reverse osmosis is usually the wrong answer.
Restaurants
Combi ovens, dishwashers and ice machines all suffer in hard water. Guide in the queue.
Offices
Drinking water points, taste and maintenance records. Guide in the queue.
Salons and barbers
Hard water and colour treatments, and what filtration actually helps. Guide in the queue.
Gyms and leisure
High-volume drinking water and shower filtration. Guide in the queue.
Maintenance checklist
What to check weekly, monthly and annually, and which records an inspection will want to see.
NHS and healthcare
HTM 04-01, CQC audit evidence and Legionella risk in water coolers and drinking water systems.
Products for commercial premises
Under-sink filters
A filter housing plumbed into the cold supply under your kitchen sink, feeding either your existing tap or a separate filter tap. The most popular way to get filtered drinking water in a UK home.
Whole-house filters
A large filter fitted to the rising main where water enters the property, so every tap, shower and appliance gets treated water.
Softeners
An ion-exchange unit plumbed into the rising main that removes calcium and magnesium entirely, giving genuinely soft water throughout the property.
Scale inhibitors
A compact in-line device that changes how hardness minerals behave so they do not stick as scale, without removing them. Far cheaper and simpler than a softener.
Reverse osmosis
A multi-stage system that forces water through a semi-permeable membrane, removing the overwhelming majority of dissolved substances. The most thorough domestic filtration available.
Inline filters
A sealed cartridge fitted directly into a water line, most often feeding a fridge, an ice maker, a coffee machine or a drinks dispenser.
Sediment filters
A mechanical filter that strains out sand, silt, rust and other particles. Usually the first stage in any multi-stage system.
Carbon filters
Activated carbon cartridges that adsorb chlorine, organic compounds and the things that make water taste and smell wrong. The workhorse of domestic filtration.
UV treatment
An ultraviolet lamp in a chamber that inactivates bacteria, viruses and protozoa as water passes. Disinfection, not filtration.
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Commercial guides
Water filtration for cafés
Why espresso machines fail in hard water areas, what filtration a café actually needs, and what the maintenance records are for.
Commercial Water FiltrationCommercial water filtration: a maintenance checklist
What to check, how often, and what records to keep for a commercial filtration installation.