When buying a commercial dishwasher, glasswasher, and laundry washers you may or may not need to buy a water softener so that you don’t damage your equipment.
Below is a table so that you can work out, roughly whether or not you would need a water filter or not. For a more specific yes or no answer please click on the chat with us or leave us a message button in the bottom right of your screen and tell us your postcode so we can find out if you definitely need a water softener.
| Completely Soft | 0-16 mg/l as calcium carbonate |
| Naturally Soft | 17-51 mg/l as calcium carbonate |
| Moderately Soft | 52-120 mg/l as calcium carbonate |
| Moderately Hard | 121-223 mg/l as calcium carbonate |
| Hard | 224-291 mg/l as calcium carbonate |
| Aggressively Hard | 295-359 mg/l as calcium carbonate |
| Very Hard |
360+ mg/l as calcium carbonate |
Anything that is not Soft to Moderately Soft will need a water softener, buy them here.
| Water Softness by County | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedfordshire | Hard to Very Hard | Lancashire | Soft to Moderately Soft |
| Berkshire | Hard to Very Hard | Leicestershire | Medium to Moderately Hard |
| Buckinghamshire | Hard to Very Hard | Lincolnshire | Hard to Very Hard |
| Cambridgeshire | Hard to Very Hard | Norfolk | Hard to Very Hard |
| Cheshire | Medium to Moderately Hard | Northamptonshire | Medium to Moderately Hard |
| Cornwall | Soft to Moderately Soft | Northumberland | Medium to Moderately Hard |
| Cumbria | Soft to Moderately Soft | Nottinghamshire | Medium to Moderately Hard |
| Derbyshire | Medium to Moderately Hard | Oxfordshire | Hard to Very Hard |
| Devon | Soft to Moderately Soft | Rutland | Medium to Moderately Hard |
| Dorset | Hard to Very Hard | Shropshire | Medium to Moderately Hard |
| Durham | Soft to Moderately Soft | Somerset | Soft to Moderately Soft |
| Essex | Hard to Very Hard | Staffordshire | Medium to Moderately High |
| Gloucestershire | Hard to Very Hard | Suffolk | Hard to Very Hard |
| Greater London | Medium to Moderately Hard | Surrey | Hard to Very Hard |
| Hampshire | Hard to Very Hard | Sussex | Hard to Very Hard |
| Herefordshire | Hard to Very Hard | Warwickshire | Medium to Moderately High |
| Hertfordshire | Hard to Very Hard | Wiltshire | Hard to Very Hard |
| Kent | Hard to Very Hard | Worcestershire | Medium to Moderately High |
| Yorkshire | Hard to Very Hard | Mid Lothian | Medium to Moderately High |
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