Under-sink water filter installation in Exeter
Getting an under-sink drinking water filter fitted in Exeter — what it costs, whether you could do it yourself, and where the job stops being DIY.
Soft
South West Water
Water in Exeter
- Exeter has soft water from South West Water, drawn from Dartmoor and Exmoor catchments.
- The contrast with Bristol, ninety minutes up the M5 and firmly in hard-water territory, is one of the sharpest hardness boundaries in England.
- Water softeners are not appropriate in Exeter, and any local sales pitch for one deserves scrutiny.
- Devon has a substantial number of rural properties on private supplies where UV disinfection is the key product.
- Filtration demand in the city itself is led by taste and chlorine rather than scale.
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 Exeter
Water company boundaries do not follow council boundaries. Check your postcode for the supplier at your address.