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Water Softener & Water Filter

Which Do You Need?

Water softeners and water filters both improve water quality but through different methods and predominantly with different outcomes. Establishing what you are trying to eliminate or improve will help you decide whether you need a water softener, a water filter or both.

This diagram helps to explain the differences between Water Softeners and Water Filters.  You can visit our product pages by clicking on these links.

Water Softener

  • Stop having to regularly replace appliances ie kettles, showers
  • Remove limescale from bathrooms and kitchens, reducing time spent cleaning & keeping them looking like new
  • Improve dry skin and hair, especially sufferers of skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis
  • Reverses limescale build up in pipes which can impact heating efficiency
  • Reduces costly maintenance and repair work

Water Filter

  • Improve the taste and smell of your drinking water
  • Reduce the need to buy bottled drinking water and reduce plastic consumption
  • Remove contaminants such as microplastics, forever chemicals, VOCs
  • Reduce the risk of contamination from old lead pipes
Water softener vs water filter comparison graphic
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