Under-sink water filter installation in Aberdeen
Getting an under-sink drinking water filter fitted in Aberdeen — what it costs, whether you could do it yourself, and where the job stops being DIY.
Soft
Scottish Water
Water in Aberdeen
- Aberdeen has soft water supplied by Scottish Water, drawn largely from the River Dee.
- As across Scotland, softeners are rarely appropriate and limescale is not a significant domestic problem.
- Scottish Water byelaws govern plumbing work rather than the English and Welsh regulations, and installer registration routes differ accordingly.
- The city's energy sector includes industrial water treatment requirements well outside the domestic market.
- Aberdeen's granite building stock and older tenement flats present the usual space constraints for under-sink installations.
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 Aberdeen
Water company boundaries do not follow council boundaries. Check your postcode for the supplier at your address.