Under-sink water filter installation in Leeds
Getting an under-sink drinking water filter fitted in Leeds — what it costs, whether you could do it yourself, and where the job stops being DIY.
Slightly hard
Yorkshire Water
Water in Leeds
- Leeds is supplied by Yorkshire Water, whose area has one of the widest hardness spreads in the country — soft Pennine reservoir water in the west, considerably harder groundwater towards the east and the Wolds.
- Leeds itself sits towards the softer end of that range, drawing largely on upland reservoirs, but it is close enough to the boundary that checking rather than assuming is genuinely worthwhile.
- The city's commercial water filtration market is disproportionately large for its size, driven by a dense city-centre hospitality sector where espresso machines and combi ovens need protecting.
- Leeds has a very substantial stock of back-to-back and through terraces from the late nineteenth century, where under-sink installations often have to work around cramped and much-modified pipework.
- Because hardness varies across the wider West Yorkshire area, installers covering both Leeds and, say, the Hull direction genuinely see two different sets of problems.
Your water is slightly hard — barely enough to notice.
You may see a faint film in the kettle over months rather than weeks. A softener is very hard to justify at this level, and scale protection on a new boiler is optional rather than sensible. Any filtration you buy here should be about taste and chlorine.
Who supplies Leeds
Water company boundaries do not follow council boundaries. Check your postcode for the supplier at your address.