Living in Clapham means coping with hard water

Unless you have a water softener installed in your home, if you live in Clapham, it’s impossible to escape hard water. It’s what flows through the mains supply. This is due to the chalky bedrock prevalent throughout much of Sussex. Rainwater is naturally soft, but once it seeps into the bedrock, which contain an abundance of hard water-causing calcium and magnesium minerals, the water turns much harder.

Hard water isn’t great for many reasons. It washes the living daylights out of skin and hair, reducing their natural softness and vibrancy. Dry skin conditions are made worse by hard water, especially for anyone affected by eczema and dermatitis. With soft water on tap, you’ll immediately see the benefits. Skin and hair adore softened water. Also, your laundry won’t go all stiff and starchy like it does with hard water constantly flowing through your washing machine.

Equally as bad is limescale. It’s caused by hard water and accumulating on wet surfaces in kitchens and bathrooms. A water softener will get rid of it, stopping scale from collecting around taps, on baths, sinks, shower screens and household appliances, like kettles. Limescale is also the worst thing you can allow to run amok around your central heating system. It blocks up pipework and water tanks. A system constantly battling limescale will use huge amounts of unnecessary – and expensive – energy, simply to keep producing the correct amount of heat and hot water for your property. Soft water means reduced energy bills and a healthy, long-lasting boiler.

The water hardness level for Clapham sits at about 240 parts per million (ppm), like nearby Patching. Readings of over 200 ppm are considered hard. An efficient, cost-effective Scott Jenkins Water Softener will see these high levels of hard water plummet to almost zero.

Clapham – an Overview

Annual rainfall: 22.79inch or 578.87mm.

Clapham is a rural village in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, lying on varying downslopes and escarpment of the South Downs National Park. Adjacent to the village of Patching, it is situated 3 miles north of Angmering on the A280 road and north of the A27 crossroads. .

The main part of Clapham, containing much of the village’s housing, is known simply as The Street.