Who has the hardest water?

[flimper]

My water's well 'ard Bloody water spots it leaves do my head in sometimes, can you get harder than this?

 

[pvr]

You would murder a DI vessel pretty quickly with that.

Having said that, mine only seems to last 3 months or so as well.

 

[mad4slalom]

our ski lake is bloody hard when its under ten degrees, like hitting concrete compared with the twenty degrees in the summer.

 

[aquazi]

winshill in staffordshire makes your's look pretty soft: :lol:

http://www.south-staffs-water.co.uk/your_home/water_hardness.asp

 

[ben g]

I win. CaCo3 is calcium carbonate. Oh dear, how am I not dead yet? :lol: the joys of living in the south east...

 

[PerryGunn]

Ours is 272.5 mg/l for CaC03 (109 Ca)

When we had our bathroom replaced last year, we put in a whole-house water softener - bloody marvelous thing, no more water spots, soap/shampoo lathers better, it's like moving house to a soft water area.

 

[RickRob]

We're just hard here , but not as nard as Ben G or Perry Gunn.

From what I know the area around Birminghamhave very soft water as is comes from granite reservoirs in the Élan Valley of Wales.

I think that Lux lives fairly close to where I used to, so I am expecting him to be soft!

 

[Brasseye]

Wow a lot of hard water out there

 

[Brasseye]

Wow a lot of hard water out there

but we win being hard !

The water supplied in the EPSOM SOUTH zone is HARD water.

Calcium carbonate(CaCO3): 311 ppm test

 

[aquazi]

Wishill in staff still has the most at 325... Explains why their beer/ lager is as good as it is

 

[PerryGunn]

Wishill in staff still has the most at 325... Explains why their beer/ lager is as good as it is

Does hard water make better beer then?

 

[Bing]

Mine is about 265ppm

Not killed my DI vessel yet PVR, though it was kicking out 2ppm the other weekend :x

 

[original guvnor]

Wishill in staff still has the most at 325... Explains why their beer/ lager is as good as it is

Does hard water make better beer then?

The brewing industry was centred around Burton On Trent in Staffordshire and it's got great water for making pale ales and bitter but perhaps not so good for that laaaaaager stuff you southerners drink!


http://byo.com/issues/item/1478-the-elements-of-brewing-water

 

[ekimj10]

Anyone do a check who is supplied by Severn Trent? I've just checked and they appear not to provide a value for the level of calcium carbonates, just classify our area as 'VERY HARD' - No standard applies.
I'll vouch that it is!

 

[original guvnor]

Anyone do a check who is supplied by Severn Trent? I've just checked and they appear not to provide a value for the level of calcium carbonates, just classify our area as 'VERY HARD' - No standard applies.
I'll vouch that it is!

I got the same but ours was just "hard".

 

[jamiez]

Crazy hard in Newbury also! Bought a new kettle and within a week it was white inside.
Spent 1k on a water softener - sorted!

 

[Dev]

Wow a lot of hard water out there

but we win being hard !

The water supplied in the EPSOM SOUTH zone is HARD water.

Calcium carbonate(CaCO3): 311 ppm test

I now live just north of Epsom (Stoneleigh/Ewell) and was surprised at how soft (comparatively) the water is here compared to other places I've lived in London, the reading here is 196.8 mg/l for CaCO3! Our supplier only gives a ppm for total dissolved solids, that is 278ppm.

Edit: thinking back, ppm and mg/l should be pretty much 1:1 - someone please correct me if I'm wrong!

 

[ric19]

I am with Severn Trent and got this :-

Analysis Typical value UK/EU Limit Units
Hardness Level Soft No Standard Applies
Hardness Clark 2.70 No Standard Applies Degrees Clark
Hardness French 3.86 No Standard Applies French Degrees
Hardness German 2.16 No Standard Applies German Degrees
Aluminium 9.81 200 μgAl/l
Chlorine 0.27 No Standard Applies mg/l
Coliform bacteria 0 0 no./100ml
Colour 0.66 20 mg/l Pt/Co
Conductivity 117.27 2500 μS/cm at 20°C
E.coli bacteria 0 0 no./100ml
Fluoride 0.06 1.5 mgF/l
Iron 21.13 200 μgFe/l
Manganese 4.73 50 μgMn/l
Nitrate 2.63 50 mgNO3/l
Odour 0 Acceptable to customers and no abnormal change Dilution Number
Pesticides 0 0.5 μg/l
pH 8.16 6.5 - 9.5 pH Value
Sodium 7.83 200 mgNa/l
Taste 0 Acceptable to customers and no abnormal change Dilution Number
Plumbing Metals
Copper 0.00 2.0 mgCu/l
Lead 0.56 25 (10 from 25/12/2013) μgPb/l
Nickel 1.69 20 μgNi/l

 

[jimbo1958]

I am with Severn Trent and got this :-

Analysis Typical value UK/EU Limit Units
Hardness Level Soft No Standard Applies
Hardness Clark 2.70 No Standard Applies Degrees Clark
Hardness French 3.86 No Standard Applies French Degrees
Hardness German 2.16 No Standard Applies German Degrees
Aluminium 9.81 200 μgAl/l
Chlorine 0.27 No Standard Applies mg/l
Coliform bacteria 0 0 no./100ml
Colour 0.66 20 mg/l Pt/Co
Conductivity 117.27 2500 μS/cm at 20°C
E.coli bacteria 0 0 no./100ml
Fluoride 0.06 1.5 mgF/l
Iron 21.13 200 μgFe/l
Manganese 4.73 50 μgMn/l
Nitrate 2.63 50 mgNO3/l
Odour 0 Acceptable to customers and no abnormal change Dilution Number
Pesticides 0 0.5 μg/l
pH 8.16 6.5 - 9.5 pH Value
Sodium 7.83 200 mgNa/l
Taste 0 Acceptable to customers and no abnormal change Dilution Number
Plumbing Metals
Copper 0.00 2.0 mgCu/l
Lead 0.56 25 (10 from 25/12/2013) μgPb/l
Nickel 1.69 20 μgNi/l

Thanks for that.

 

[ekimj10]

Ric19 wrote:

Hardness Level Soft No Standard Applies
Hardness Clark 2.70 No Standard Applies Degrees Clark
Hardness French 3.86 No Standard Applies French Degrees
Hardness German 2.16 No Standard Applies German Degrees

This is what our report says:

Hardness Level Very Hard No Standard Applies
Hardness Clark 26.43 No Standard Applies Degrees Clark
Hardness French 37.75 No Standard Applies French Degrees
Hardness German 21.14 No Standard Applies German Degrees

Not knowing what the various standards are, but ours appear to 10 X harder. Time for a rebate for low quality levels?