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We’re just as passionate as Bear Grylls about good quality drinking water Short story | Full story | ConclusionIt’s great to see Bear Grylls getting behind the campaign for better quality drinking water. He’s recently teamed up with one of the big corporates, to...

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.

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.

We look at what you can do to your dishwasher to ensure it cleans those glasses the way you want them!

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.

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.

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?

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,...

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 certainly long standing...

The link between soft water and being green, which we are referring to, is all about looking after the environment and what we can do in our daily lives to be more sustainable. The disturbing effects of climate change are largely due to the amount of carbon dioxide being belched out into the atmosphere.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 softeners...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...