Reverse osmosis installers in Liverpool
Reverse osmosis systems fitted in Liverpool — what RO does, what it wastes, whether you actually need it, and who can install one properly.
Soft
United Utilities
Water in Liverpool
- Liverpool has soft water, supplied by United Utilities largely from Welsh and Pennine reservoirs, and limescale is not the problem here that it is in the South East.
- Lake Vyrnwy in Powys has supplied Liverpool since 1891, making this another English city drinking Welsh upland water — and another where the standard national advice about softeners simply does not apply.
- With hardness low, local demand centres on under-sink drinking water filters and inline fridge filters rather than softeners.
- Liverpool has a large stock of pre-1970 housing, and soft water's tendency to dissolve metals from older pipework makes drinking water filtration a more substantive question here than a purely cosmetic one.
- Commercial filtration demand in the city is driven mainly by the hospitality sector rather than by scale protection, since the scale risk is low.
You have soft water — there is no limescale problem to fix.
A water softener would be money spent on a problem you do not have, and anyone trying to sell you one here is worth questioning. If you want to improve your water it will be about taste, chlorine or older pipework, not hardness. Soft water is also slightly more inclined to dissolve metals from old plumbing, which is a different reason to filter drinking water.
Who supplies Liverpool
Water company boundaries do not follow council boundaries. Check your postcode for the supplier at your address.