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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,...
The Myth About Flow Rates
From time to time, we get asked about whether water softeners can affect flow rates. Often this occurs when a customer has read through a manufacturer’s literature, making claims that their water softeners won’t just improve the flow rate but that their...
Water Surprise! It’s Easy And Advantageous Being Green
Climate Change is clearly one of the biggest issues of our time - but as consumers caught up in the debate, it’s easy to feel powerless. Even if you are keen to play your part in being environmentally responsible, you’d be forgiven for thinking that, in the grander...
Reverse Osmosis – What’s It All About And How It Can Improve Drinking Water Quality
Reverse Osmosis (RO) is a highly efficient type of filtration which, when used to filter water, pretty much removes anything that’s contained in the water other than the water itself! Whether your supply comes via the mains or another source, such as a...
Water Softener Services for Housebuilders and Property Developers
Gone are the days when water softeners were seen as exclusive, luxury items. Today, more and more housebuilders – both large and small – are opting to pre-install water softeners in their new-build or refurbished properties. So, it’s no coincidence...
Here’s Why An Outside Cabinet Could Be The Perfect Spot For Your Water Softener
If you don’t have the room or configuration indoors to house a water softener, a sturdy, frost-resistant external cabinet can be relied on to provide the perfect home for your soft water system – whatever the weather. What are the benefits of Outside...
What Is A Whole House Water Filter System?
Think of a whole house water filter system as the gateway to your property. The filter is positioned to treat the water at the point the mains supply enters your home – ensuring that wherever the water flows after that point, the vast majority of its contaminants are...
Can I Use Soft Water In My Fish Tank Or Fish Pond?
Whether you are the proud owner of a fish tank full of goldfish or you have something more exotic, like koi carp, swimming about in the garden pond, making sure that your aquatic pets stay in optimum health can be a delicate balance. For both regular...
Kinetico Water Softeners Explained
Let’s be straight here – we love Kinetico Water Softeners. We sell plenty of them, we have done for years – and we intend to do so well into the future. We say this with plenty of sound evidence to back it up. Kinetico is an American company....
Our Top 10 Manufacturers of Water Softeners
We are passionate about customer protection and rights – and providing impartial, unbiased advice on the subject of soft water wherever we can. When it comes to selecting a particular water softener or supplier, we want consumers to select what they feel is best...
Your Chance to be part of Plastics Free July
In case you weren’t aware, this month has been designated Plastic Free July – a brilliant initiative highlighting awareness about the dangers of plastic and what we, as consumers, can do to help keep plastic use out of our daily lives. Plastic Free July is a major...
Why We Don’t Suggest Site Surveys
When customers make enquiries about having a water softener installed in their property, there are some who are under the impression that we will need to make a special visit to carry out a site survey. You might be surprised to learn that this isn’t actually...
Lauren Heads Up Our Customer Relations
Given the importance we place on putting our clients first, we are delighted to welcome Lauren Hartt into the fold, as our new Head of Customer Relations. It is a role to which she is ideally suited, following 16 years of customer service experience. Prior...
It’s Kristie At Your Service….
Where would we be without Kristie Jenkins? Since she started working for SJ Water Softeners in September 2019, Kristie has become a key part of the business, in her wide-ranging role of Office/ Customer Services Manager. In a small and growing business,...
Refer A Friend For A Year’s Supply Of Free Salt For Your Water Softener
Dear Customer It pays to have a Water Softener from Scott Jenkins! As a valued customer, we’d firstly like to say thank you for choosing Scott Jenkins Water Softeners to supply your soft water system. Water softeners can make dramatic improvements to...
Water Softeners Are The New Dishwashers!
Can you remember the time when dishwashers weren’t mainstream household appliances? Hang on a minute, Scott, I hear you proclaim. I thought you sold water softeners and water filters! And you’d be right! We don’t sell dishwashers and have no intention of...
Watch How Hard Water Behaves Very Differently To Soft Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBYsfEHKYCk You can’t tell whether water is hard or soft simply by looking at it. It probably won’t be discoloured or have lumps floating about in it. All in all, it should appear to be pretty much crystal clear. The thing that...
Why Are Water Softeners Good For Kitchen Taps And Sinks?
If you live in a hard water area and you have a stylish, black sink – or any shade other than white for that matter - it isn’t going to stay looking nice and clean for long, if it is continually being subjected to hard water landing on it. The darker the colour of...
What Type Of Salt Is Suitable For Water Softeners?
Water softeners would be nothing if it wasn’t for salt! In fact, they wouldn’t work at all! This is because water softeners depend on brine – composed of salt and water - to maintain the resin beads that get rid of the minerals that cause hard water. The healthy...
How To Load Salt Into A Block Salt Water Softener
To ensure your water softener regenerates effectively, it will be necessary to replace salt on a regular basis. You’ll know when it is time to put fresh salt into the softener because, with most systems, two red lines will be visible in the salt...
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.
Scott Jenkins Water Softeners is Spreading its Wings
As the demand for our water softeners continues to grow, we are delighted to report that we are expanding our territories. As many of you may be familiar, our main hubs of operation are in West Sussex and Hampshire. Indeed, being a West Sussex-based company,...
Is Soft Water OK For Pets to Drink?
At SJ Water Softeners, we are frequently asked whether it is OK for dogs and cats to drink water after it’s gone through a water softener. After all, given that pets seem quite happy to suck up water from revolting looking ponds and puddles, you would think it...
Can I Use A Water Softener If I Have A Septic Tank Or Klargester?
Are water softeners harmful to septic tanks? Plenty of people not on mains drainage wouldn’t even consider this to be an issue. But there are also many other homeowners with sewage systems for whom it does understandably raise concerns. And we can...
Your Plumbing Checklist Explained
At the point you decide to have a water softener installed in your home, it certainly helps if you have some headline knowledge about how the plumbing system works. I’m not saying you need to have any plumbing qualifications – far from it. But it can be useful...
Meet Alan… At Your Service
It’s great to announce the arrival of Alan Shaddick, who has recently joined the Scott Jenkins Water Softeners team as a Senior Service Engineer. Alan brings a wealth of experience to the role, which is good news for our customers. For many years, he worked as a Field...
Job Opportunity – Soft Water System Installer
This is a busy and exciting time for the Scott Jenkins Water Softeners business, as we continue to grow across the south of England - I am delighted to say. And it does mean we could do with some more ‘boots on the ground’. So, if you are looking for an opportunity to...
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...
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