Ovingdean is overrun with hard water

If you live in Ovingdean and you don’t have a water softener in your property, you’ll have nothing but hard water flowing through your taps. It’s all down to the region’s chalky bedrock. Rain falls as basically soft water but once it reaches the bedrock, which is full of calcium and magnesium minerals that make water turn hard, all that natural softness goes.

Hard water is bad for numerous reasons. It removes natural softness and vibrancy from skin and hair, making it go dry and lank. If you suffer from dry skin conditions, especially eczema and dermatitis, hard water will certainly not help. With softened water on tap, you’ll see improvements straightaway. Skin and hair adore soft water, so too the clothes, towels and bed linen that go into the washing machine. Softened water helps retain that nice soft touch and feel.

And then there’s limescale. It’s caused by hard water and builds up on any wet surfaces in kitchens and bathrooms – around taps, on baths, sinks, shower screens and everyday household appliances. No matter how much you clean, it’ll keep returning. Scale is also the scourge of central heating systems, blocking up pipes and water tanks. This is bad because it means wasting unnecessary amounts of energy just to maintain the correct levels of heat and hot water. The result? Higher fuel bills and a boiler that will be more prone to breakdown and early replacement, in the worst-case scenario. Water softeners can bring an end to all these woes.

The water hardness level for Ovingdean measures about 270 parts per million (ppm). That’s high, given any reading above 200 ppm is considered hard. An efficient, cost-effective Scott Jenkins Water Softener will reduce that level down to virtually zero.

Ovingdean – an Overview

Annual rainfall: 24.26inch or 616.20mm.

Now part of Brighton’s eastern flank, the historic village of Ovingdean has always been a small, formerly agricultural village. Today, following residential development, Ovingdean’s population stands at around 1,200.

Situated just off the A259 coastal road, it has Rottingdean to the south-east and Woodingdean to the north-east. Brighton racecourse is close by.

Just outside the Ovingdean boundary is Ian Fraser House, better known as St Dunstan’s, a famous residential and rehabilitation centre for blind ex-servicemen. It was also the home of 113-year-old Henry Allingham, the last surviving founder-member of the RAF and briefly the world’s oldest man.