Quick Guide to Equipment Selection

1) Is your water sourced from a local group or public water scheme or city municipal water ?
a) see "water treatment" tab at the top bar for the fundamentals of treatment, or skip to .. b) below
b) see "water testing" tab at the top bar and select "mains water problems".
c) review the relevant equipment types from "water softeners" also "reverse osmosis" also "ultraviolet".
d) download pdf brochure on right hand of home page - this brochure includes pricing.

2) Is your water sourced from a private well, or a rain tank, a mountain spring, a river or a lake ?
a) see "water treatment" tab at the top bar for the fundamentals of treatment, or skip to .. b) below
b) see "water testing" tab at the top bar and select "naturally sourced raw water" also see "products" and select "specialist systems".
c) review the relevant equipment types from "water softeners" also "reverse osmosis" also "ultraviolet".
d) download pdf brochure on right hand of home page - this brochure includes pricing.

Local group water schemes in East rural Galway County from Headford and Gort to the West, over to Ballinasloe and Portumna to the East, generally have the highest levels of hard water found in the country from around 300 to over 400 parts per million of calcium carbonate limescale, where only under 50 parts per million lime is considered soft water. All of these schemes have some level of chlorination, as required by the sanitary authorities to comply with European Directives to allow bacteria free water. Some locations in Connemara such as Renvyle are naturally soft water areas, as they sit in areas rich in granite rock which is insoluble.

Private wells all over the West of Ireland, again usually havea high level of hard water from 200 to over 500 ppm. Most wells will suffer at some point in time to the ingress of some level of bacterial infection, due to having no back up system of chlorination as found in most publicly supplied water. Often private wells have the usual limescale along with iron and manganese and possibly sulphur, the troublesome trio of well waterproblems, along with to a lesser degree, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, heavy metals and a range of less problematic, odours, colours and tastes, depending on the levels of contamination.