Living in Washington means washing in hard water

Without a water softener fitted in your home, living in Washington, West Sussex means you’ll have hard water flowing through your taps. The water is made hard because of the chalky bedrock, which covers much of the region. Rainwater is naturally soft, but once it seeps into the bedrock, which contains an abundance of hard water-creating calcium and magnesium minerals, all that natural softness disappears.

Hard water isn’t ideal for many reasons. It washes the living daylights out of skin and hair, impacting their natural softness and vibrancy. Anyone who suffers from dry skin conditions, especially eczema and dermatitis, will find these issues are aggravated by hard water. If you have softened water on tap, you’ll immediately see the benefits. The softer the water, the kinder it is on skin and hair. Laundry, like clothing, towels and bed linen, will also retain its softness, all the time it isn’t constantly washed in hard water.

Just as bad is limescale, which is caused by hard water and collects relentlessly on any wet surfaces in kitchens and bathrooms. Water softeners eradicate limescale, stopping it from building up around taps, on baths, sinks, shower screens and everyday household appliances. Limescale is also the scourge of central heating systems, blocking up pipework and water tanks. If your system is forever exposed to limescale, it will mean you waste vast amounts of energy, to keep producing the correct amount of heat and hot water for your property. And that will have a big impact on your energy bills. Soft water means reduced fuel costs and a boiler that will live a long and productive life.

The water hardness level in Washington is around 250 parts per million (ppm). That’s pretty high, given any reading above 200 ppm is considered hard. With an efficient, cost-effective Scott Jenkins Water Softener installed in your home, that unwanted hardness will disappear.

Washington – an Overview

Annual rainfall: 24.08inch or 611.63mm.

Washington is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, located five miles west of Steyning and three miles east of Storrington on the A24 between Horsham and Worthing. At the 2011 Census the population was recorded at 1,867.

One of the most significant local landmarks is Chanctonbury Ring, a hill fort based ring of trees on the top of Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs.