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Can Water Be Too Soft?
We’ve shared a lot of information about water hardness and how, in the south of England, water tends to be hard just about everywhere – in many areas exceptionally so. But what about soft water? Is there a point where water can actually be too soft? In this blog we will delve into this in a little more detail.
PFAS In Water – What Is It And How Can I Get Rid Of It?
PFAS “forever” chemicals are known to be highly dangerous to humans – even though our mains water supply is full of them. Used in food and industrial technologies, these chemicals are known to cause cancer, miscarriages and are likely to be present in almost every person’s blood supply. The UK Government has been slow to respond to calls for nationwide PFAS water testing. Environmental organisations, like Greenpeace and Chem Trust, say urgent action is required to prevent further exposure.
Revealed – The Cause Of Those Mysterious Pink Stains
It might not be quite as weird as a UFO sighting, but when pink stains keep mysteriously showing up on your kitchen and bathroom surfaces, it can make you wonder where on earth they came from! And here’s the thing. You could keep the cleanest of homes,...
Can I Soften My Water Without Having A Water Softener?
Even though water softeners provide the best overall solution to the problem of hard water, if you want softened water in your home, there are alternative tactics you can use.
Can I Use Soft Water In My Hot Tub?
This is a question I am asked more and more these days. I can certainly understand why, given the growing popularity for taking a relaxing dip in a tub! By 2015, according to the British and Irish Spa and Hot Tub Association, around 100,000 hot...
Dishwasher Salt & Rinse Aid With A Water Softener
Did you know that if you have a water softener you no longer need to fill it with salt or use rinse aid? Funnily enough, the name rinse aid this really has nothing to do with rinsing your dishes. Instead, it helps remove the water during the drying cycle. So really it...
Other articles covering a range of questions related to soft water
Is The Mains Water Supply As Safe As We Are Told?
This article provides an overview of the widescale and potentially dangerous contaminants present in the mains water supply and the risks that this exposure can have on our health. From chlorine to PFAS forever chemicals, UK water is an unwitting source of harmful substances – despite the country’s reputation for having one of the world’s safest public water supplies.
Can Hard Water Lead to Hair Loss?
What scientific evidence exists to support these claims about hard water?
Well, from a dermatological standpoint, if you regularly wash your hair in hard water, which contains lots of calcium and magnesium mineral deposits, these deposits will build up on the scalp and in the hair strands. This can prevent moisture from being absorbed.
Here’s why a MolliVita Water Softener Warranty has huge value
MolliVita Water Softeners are popular because they are easy to operate, reliable and competitively priced. On the rare occasions when something goes wrong, however, it’s best to be prepared.
An extended warranty is designed to offer you complete protection, in the unlikely event of the product breaking down.
Support your local butcher, baker or candlestick maker
As consumers, we are all trying our best to negotiate a way through the economic situation in which we find ourselves. And caught up in the middle of all this are small businesses.
How to Keep Glass Clean in the Dishwasher
We look at what you can do to your dishwasher to ensure it cleans those glasses the way you want them!
Why Cooking in Softened, Filtered Water is Heaven for Foodies
In order to get the best from your culinary activities, the water quality has a really key role to play in determining the outcome. Not just the water you use in cooking and heating the ingredients – but also the water you have access to for washing and preparing the food. This applies equally to hot or cold dishes.
Why does Limescale Build Up in your Central Heating System?
Limescale is especially prevalent – and damaging – to your central heating system. Here’s what happens during the cycle of heating and cooling water in the system.
Soft Water in the Home = £1000 more in Your Pocket
For years, we’ve been advocating the multiple benefits associated with softened water flowing into your home.
Now, additional research suggests that, by having a water softener in your property, it could amount to an annual household saving of at least £1000.
We’re Accredited Qettle Tap Installers!
We’re delighted to announce that we are now an accredited installer for Qettle taps.
Proud to be adding Qettle to our premium product range, it’s a win-win situation for our customers! When you book your appointment to have your new water softener installed, or when we are attending to carry out an annual service, we can accessorise your kitchen with an amazing, all-in-one Qettle tap.
Luke Takes Pride In Delivering A Quality Service
Life is full of coincidences and how about this one? It turns out that our engineer, Luke, was born in the same town (Epsom in Surrey), in the same hospital and went to the same school as Scott Jenkins himself – albeit a few years apart!
You couldn’t make it up – and we haven’t! It’s absolutely true!
Can Water Be Too Soft?
We’ve shared a lot of information about water hardness and how, in the south of England, water tends to be hard just about everywhere – in many areas exceptionally so. But what about soft water? Is there a point where water can actually be too soft? In this blog we will delve into this in a little more detail.
A Warm Welcome From The Famous Five!
Here we are – the people who make it all possible, the beating heart of Scott Jenkins Water Softeners.
From left to right, meet Lauren, Luke, Scott and Kristie.
Mrs Hinch-inspired Limescale Cleaning Tips Are Good – But Never As Effective As Water Softeners
Despite Mrs Hinch’s praiseworthy cleaning tips, at the end of the day – no matter what you clean with – limescale will always keep returning. The only way to stop it for good is to get rid of hard water in your home altogether. The only way to do that is to have a water softener installed.
Why Aftercare Is So Important – Including Water Softeners!
We might not be the cheapest but, boy, you do get value for money! You might pay that little bit more for great service but, as long as you are a Scott Jenkins Water Softeners customer, that’s exactly what we’ll keep delivering – great service.
MolliEco – Your Discount Water Softener For A Lifetime
Looking for a Discount Water Softener that stands the test of time?
It’s finally here! The MolliVita, exclusively available to the UK market through Scott Jenkins Water Softeners.
A permanent soft water system for your home that we’re proud to have helped create.
Affordability of Water Softeners
With rocketing energy bills and fuel prices, along with the weekly food shop burning a hole in the credit card, it’s more important than ever to take stock of the cost of living.
What exactly are we spending and where does the money go each month? What represents good value? Indeed, what do we consider to be essential expenditure, as opposed to affordable luxuries?
Can I Have A Water Softener Installed Far Away From The Stopcock?
In many homes, it isn’t always possible to fit a water softener right next to the stop cock. This is usually because where the stopcock is positioned, there isn’t sufficient space next to it to install the water softener. This needn’t be a problem,...
Scott Jenkins Water Softeners Clocks Up 10 Years As A Checkatrade Member
We were delighted to receive confirmation this week that the Scott Jenkins Water Softeners business has been recognised as an Approved Member of Checkatrade for over 10 years. In fact, we’ve been members since 2008, so we are now well into our 14th year as a...
You May Experience This When Upgrading From an Old Water Softener to a New Softener
This doesn’t happen very often – but when it does it can be a bit off putting! We were recently contacted by a customer who bought an upgraded water softener from us, replacing an existing softener that was supplied elsewhere. The picture (below) is...
Make Sure Your Soft Water Is “Green” – If You See What We Mean!
Before you get the wrong end of the stick, we aren’t suggesting that having a water softener installed in your home will make your water turn green. That’s the last thing it should do! Something will have gone drastically wrong if it has! In fact, a water...
Installing a Water Softener Is Actually Very Simple (And Not Time-Consuming!)
If you’ve ever had tradesmen in your home – perhaps a plumber, electrician or a painter and decorator – it can be disruptive and even daunting. In a way, it feels like an invasion of your privacy and, nine times out of ten, the work takes longer than you’d...
PFAS In Water – What Is It And How Can I Get Rid Of It?
PFAS “forever” chemicals are known to be highly dangerous to humans – even though our mains water supply is full of them. Used in food and industrial technologies, these chemicals are known to cause cancer, miscarriages and are likely to be present in almost every person’s blood supply. The UK Government has been slow to respond to calls for nationwide PFAS water testing. Environmental organisations, like Greenpeace and Chem Trust, say urgent action is required to prevent further exposure.
Should I Use Soft Water In My Garden Tap?
Having soft water flowing through your garden tap isn’t something we would recommend – but not necessarily for the reason that you might think. There is a general school of thought that because salt is used to make water soft then the water must contain salt. And...
Quooker Added To The SJ Water Softeners Premium Brand Selection
Can softened water be connected to Quooker Taps? Absolutely they can! In fact, we’d go so far as to say that if you’ve gone to the trouble of having a Quooker installed, you should go the whole hog and get a water softener fitted at the same time.
Eczema, Your Children and Soft Water
At SJ Water Softeners, we have had personal, first-hand experience of how eczema can impact the younger generation and we are convinced that soft water can play a key part in helping eczema sufferers overcome or significantly reduce its distressing effects.
5 Star Thumbs Up from Good Homes Magazine for Kinetico’s Premier Compact Water Softener
We are proud of the water softeners we sell and are always delighted to recommend them to our customers. So, it is always good to see independent, third-party reviews from respected magazines, like Good Homes, who’ve recently given a big thumbs-up to one of our...
Beware! Try To Avoid Being Lured Into Buying a Water Softener Where You Don’t Get To Choose Your Salt
In recent times, we are starting to notice a worrying trend creeping into the water softener industry – and we feel it would be helpful to customers to make you aware of what seems to be happening. It appears certain manufacturers are heavily promoting particular...
How Scott Jenkins Water Softeners’ Expertise Came To Checkatrade’s Aid
We are big fans of Checkatrade. As a company that’s in the business of providing a trade to consumers, we believe that their organisation provides an invaluable watchdog-style service. It helps customers sort the wheat from the chaff and select the most appropriate...
What To Do With Your Drinking Water System If You Are Gone For A Long Time
If you have a filtered drinking water system in your home and you are wondering what you should do with it if you are going to be away for an extended period, then this should prove helpful. By an extended period, we are referring to anything over a month or...
Revealed – The Cause Of Those Mysterious Pink Stains
It might not be quite as weird as a UFO sighting, but when pink stains keep mysteriously showing up on your kitchen and bathroom surfaces, it can make you wonder where on earth they came from! And here’s the thing. You could keep the cleanest of homes,...
Installed in the Royal Suite at Buckingham Palace
Preventing scale in hot water systems as the chain expands
Installing water softeners for NHS Home Kidney Dialysis
Delivering soft water to London’s most luxurious hotel
Soft water for this forward-thinking restaurant & bar
Beautiful food, beer and soft water for The Chantry
A highly reviewed Italian restaurant know the benefits soft water can bring
Cheswood Lee Apartments in Worthing have soft water on tap
Royal Garden Hotel are now enjoying the benefits of soft water
Darlington Court care home had a softener installed recently
Bringing authentic Spanish Tapas to Brighton since 2009, now with soft water!
C&C window cleaners are now serving their customers with soft water
The University of Chichester are now loving the benefits soft water can bring to their staff & students
These guys service, repair & supply equipment, often including softeners which are used for dishwashers, oven steamers & glass cleaners
They have two deli's in Central London and have just opened a restaurant in Chiswick which all utilise soft water
Itchenor Sailing Club are are one of the leading dinghy and keelboat sailing clubs in the UK, now benefiting from soft water