Hard water is lurking in Lurgashall

If you live in Lurgashall, West Sussex it’s hard to avoid hard water – unless you have a water softener installed. Hard water permeates through the mains supply. This is all due to the type of chalky soil prevalent throughout the area. Whilst rainwater is naturally soft, once it reaches the bedrock, it turns much harder, due to the abundance of hard water-causing calcium and magnesium minerals contained in the underlay.

Hard water isn’t ideal for plenty of reasons. It washes the living daylights out of skin and hair, removing natural softness and vibrancy. Dry skin conditions are aggravated by hard water – especially so for anyone suffering from eczema and dermatitis. Softened water in your property will create immediate benefits. Our skin and hair adore soothing soft water. Laundry, too, doesn’t end up all stiff and starchy when regularly washed in soft water.

Nasty limescale you see on kitchen and bathroom surfaces is also caused by hard water. A water softener will get rid of it, stopping scale collecting on baths, sinks, shower screens and household appliances. Worse still, central heating systems are at the mercy of hard water. It blocks up pipework and clogs water tanks. A system continuously battling against limescale will waste huge amounts of costly energy, just in generating the necessary amount of heat and hot water for your home. Softened water means lower energy bills and a healthy, long-lasting boiler.

Lurgashall’s water hardness level sits at around 220 parts per million (ppm) – Given any reading over 200 ppm is considered hard, Fittleworth is well up the water hardness league table. An efficient, cost-effective Scott Jenkins Water Softener will see that high level reading drop to almost nothing.

Lurgashall – an Overview

Annual rainfall: 24.59inch or 624.59mm.

Lurgashall is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, four miles north west of Petworth, just inside the South Downs National Park. At the 2011 census, the population stood at 609.