Water Filters

Around the UK we have a wide variation in the quality and hardness of our water. In the area covered by Severn Trent the water is hard to very hard. This reduces the life of heating elements in kettles, washing machines, dishwashers and showers. It also furs up the hot water pipe system in the house and over time causes the heating bills to rise because of the increased cost of heating the hot water in the house. This applies equally well to combination boilers as well as hot water cylinders.

Some households may have another problem. Perhaps you have unwanted particles in the water or offensive odours. Maybe you would like to be rid of the scum ring that you see in you tea or coffee cup. There are a variety of filters which can solve these problems as well as keeping water borne bacteria, cysts, pesticides, organic chemicals and heavy metals at bay as can be seen from the filter chart below.

With such a varied quality of water in our mains it pays to install a water filter.

We install LIFF filter housings and filters believing them to offer excellent quality and value for money . Below you can see the most popular models from the LIFF range.

Text Box: The NP1 filter housing can be fitted on the incoming supply to a house or on the cold feed to a particular appliance. The choice of location is dependant on the type of cartridge being used. An isolating valve must be fitted on the inlet pipework to facilitate filter changing.

All of the 8 filters listed below will fit in the filter housings and you choose the filter from the table below. As you will see no one filter will remove all pollutants so you should choose the relevant filter for your particular situation. Alternatively if you want to cover all possibilities then you could install two filter housings and fit a CR10 filter in one housing and a CY filter in the other.

	NSW5/NSW25	NCSW	C1	PP	R1	MX1	CY	CR10
Sediment Removal	5 or 25 microns nominal	5 microns nominal				5 microns absolute	1 micron absolute
Bad Taste/Chlorine		●	●			●		●
Scale Removal				●	●			●
Scum Removal					●			●
Lead Reduction					●			●
Aluminium Removal							●
Heavy Metal Reduction					●			●
Bacteria down to 1 micron							●
Cysts down to 1 micron							●
Organic Chemicals		●	●			●	●	●
Pesticides -						●	●

The cost of installation is not included in the prices of filter housings and filters.

Text Box: The NDL2 filter housing has all the advantages of the NP1 but also includes a built in bypass which allows the water supply to be turned on, off, or to bypass the filter without the need for an isolating valve to be fitted external to the unit. Text Box: The NCP1 is a filter kit designed for installation on cold water drinking lines. This is basically the NCP1 filter housing with the addition of a touch tap that is fitted alongside the existing tap or sink unit.