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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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you are considering the best options for introducing soft water into your home - without installing a water softener - there are ways to go about this.  Hard water can be softened in various ways – either through boiling the water before use, adding chemicals,...

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...

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...

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...

Qooker Taps look great and make handy additions to many a kitchen. So, it’s no surprise we regularly come across them when we are carrying out water softener installations and annual servicing.  Having a fashionable tap that provides on demand boiling hot water,...

We love our pets – especially our dogs. No wonder they are called “man’s best friend”! As part of our “connection” with our beloved pooches, we spend hours grooming them.  Dogs just love being pampered – which is why we spend an inordinate amount of time brushing...

How is it possible that pipes in your property can get clogged up, when the only thing flowing freely through them is meant to be clear and harmless looking water?  It’s not as though there should be any mud or leaves in there causing any...

Us Brits drink tea and coffee like there’s no tomorrow and we’ve each got our favourites in the brewing stakes. Ceylon or Cappuccino? Or what about a barista’s concoction or a good old fashioned builder’s tea? The choices are as long as your arm and they all have...

If you weren’t aware of the connection between hard water and why your kettle gets furred up, or your dishwasher degrades and doesn’t clean the dishes like it once did, you are not alone! Quite rightly, many people assume that the water flowing from the tap in our...

Hands up!  If you don’t currently have a water softener, how quickly do you see a deterioration in the quality of your laundry?  By that, I mean how long does it take before towels, jumpers, bed linen, shirts and blouses even, start to lose their softness?...

Water is water, right? It’s transparent and it flows from taps. We drink it. We wash in it. And we clean with it. It’s all much of a muchness, surely? Well, that’s where you’d be mistaken. There’s a world of difference in water types – primarily to do with whether...

Reverse Osmosis. It sounds like a topic you should have paid closer attention to in biology classes at school – a bit like photosynthesis. Remember that one?!! To be fair, reverse osmosis is actually a topic that wouldn’t have formed part of the mainstream curriculum....

Today we caught up with Helen, who lives in Waterlooville, a part of the country which has very hard water. Helen bought a water softener from us just a couple of months ago and we were keen to understand what encouraged her to get one in the first place, and how...