Under-sink water filter installation in Edinburgh
Getting an under-sink drinking water filter fitted in Edinburgh — what it costs, whether you could do it yourself, and where the job stops being DIY.
Soft
Scottish Water
Water in Edinburgh
- Edinburgh has soft water supplied by Scottish Water, typically well below 100 mg/l CaCO₃.
- Scotland is soft-water country almost throughout, and Edinburgh is no exception. A water softener in Edinburgh solves a problem the city does not have.
- Scottish plumbing work operates under its own regulatory framework — Scottish Water byelaws rather than the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999 that apply in England and Wales — so accreditation and approval routes differ from those south of the border.
- Filtration demand here is about taste, chlorine and the city's very large stock of pre-1919 tenement flats, where under-sink space is often at a premium.
- Edinburgh's substantial hospitality and tourism sector drives commercial filtration demand, again for taste and product quality rather than for scale protection.
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 Edinburgh
Water company boundaries do not follow council boundaries. Check your postcode for the supplier at your address.