Under-sink water filter installation in Glasgow
Getting an under-sink drinking water filter fitted in Glasgow — what it costs, whether you could do it yourself, and where the job stops being DIY.
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Scottish Water
Water in Glasgow
- Glasgow has very soft water, most of it from Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, supplied since 1859 by an aqueduct that is still in service.
- Loch Katrine water is among the softest municipal supplies in Britain. Limescale is simply not a Glasgow problem.
- Very soft water is more plumbosolvent, so in Glasgow's extensive pre-1970 tenement stock, drinking water filtration is worth considering for reasons that have nothing to do with scale.
- Scottish Water byelaws govern plumbing work here rather than the English and Welsh regulations, and installers should be registered accordingly.
- Softener sales in Glasgow should be treated with real scepticism — there is no hardness for one to remove.
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 Glasgow
Water company boundaries do not follow council boundaries. Check your postcode for the supplier at your address.