Water Treatment & Filtration in March
The town sits on hard fen water like the rest of the district, so scale in cylinders, valves and heat exchangers is a recurring theme. If you live in March, your water is hard. Very hard. Anglian Water's supply in this area regularly measures above 300mg/l calcium carbonate — that's well into the "very hard" category. You'll see it on your taps, in your kettle, around your shower head, and inside your boiler where it quietly shortens the life of every heating element and pipe it touches.
Around the market place and St Wendredas, the older buildings often hide layers of pipework added over a century of piecemeal alterations. A water softener stops limescale at the source. It treats your entire water supply before it reaches a single tap, so every fixture, appliance, and pipe in your home is protected. Your shower glass stays clear, your boiler lasts longer, you use less detergent, and your skin and hair feel noticeably different soon after fitting. It's one of those upgrades that pays for itself.
The larger post-war estates on the edge of town were built to a pattern, and now share the same ageing first-fit plumbing coming due for replacement. For drinking water, reverse osmosis is the gold standard. An RO system fits under your kitchen sink and feeds a dedicated tap on the worktop. It strips out chlorine, fluoride, heavy metals, pesticides, and dissolved minerals that a standard filter can't touch. If you want the cleanest possible drinking water without buying bottles, this is how you get it. Carbon filters, sediment filters, and boiling/chilled water taps like Quooker and Grohe Red are all fitted by the plumber too.
