Under-sink water filter installation in Newcastle upon Tyne
Getting an under-sink drinking water filter fitted in Newcastle upon Tyne — what it costs, whether you could do it yourself, and where the job stops being DIY.
Soft
Northumbrian Water
Water in Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newcastle has soft water supplied by Northumbrian Water, largely from Kielder Water and other upland reservoirs.
- Kielder is the largest artificial lake in the UK by capacity, and the regional supply it anchors is both soft and unusually secure.
- Water softeners have essentially no market here, and any householder being sold one in Newcastle should ask what problem it is solving.
- Filtration demand centres on drinking water taste and on protecting appliances from sediment in older properties rather than from scale.
- The North East's commercial filtration work is driven by hospitality and by food production rather than by 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 Newcastle upon Tyne
Water company boundaries do not follow council boundaries. Check your postcode for the supplier at your address.