Hard water affects approximately 60% of households across the UK. Containing high levels of calcium and magnesium, hard water is often the cause of various plumbing issues which plague UK homeowners.

Limescale is a familiar nuisance to much of the UK, building up everywhere that water sits. Whether that be your toilet, shower or kitchen tap. Worst of all it is difficult to clean after it sticks to those surfaces. Rather than going out to buy expensive and in some cases corrosive chemicals to remove the scale what about using something already at home such as WD-40? Does WD-40 remove limescale? Let’s find out!

Cleaning the toilet can be an unpleasant nuisance at the best of times but if you live in a hard water area it can be even worse. Limescale deposits can form dark patches in the toilet bowl, but what makes this especially frustrating is that these deposits are stubborn and hard to remove. Elbow grease is often not enough. So how to remove limescale from below the toilet waterline? Read on to find out!

Limescale is an expensive and frustrating nuisance. It not only ruins the looks of a nice bathroom or kitchen but will also destroy fixtures and equipment, like your kettle eventually. Whilst grabbing a descaler from the cleaning supplies shelf can seem like the only option many have opted for alternative and potentially cheaper methods to deal with the problem, in this instance coke! So does coke remove limescale? Let’s find out.

So you’ve just finished scrubbing your tap chipping away at the rock like limescale deposit and the question comes to your mind ‘Is this bad for me?’ In this article we’ll take a look at whether limescale is harmful and if so how?

Whether you’re dealing with limescale, your hair and skin are feeling particularly dry, or you’re moving into an area and would like to prepare in case these issues are present you’ll want to know if you have hard or soft water in your area. 60% of the UK is supplied by hard water so the odds are good that you do too. In this article we’ll briefly break down each region of the UK and find out whether your area has hard water. You’ll also be able to click through on each region for a more detailed breakdown by county.

In this article we’ll answer the question ‘does London have hard water?’, as well as taking a look at all the main London water suppliers.

Dealing with the problems of hard water can be a real headache. Especially when there are several different and interchangeable names for systems on the market. So what is a hard water filter? Do these systems even exist? If not, then why is the term used? In this article we’ll answer all the above and clarify what the devices on the market are that you’ll want to research when looking for a solution to your limescale issues.

The North West of England includes the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. So are these areas primarily supplied by hard or soft water? Let’s take a look!

A scale inhibitor is a device designed to reduce the amount of limescale formed in hard water areas. These devices are usually compact and designed to protect single pieces of equipment such as a boiler. But there appear to be many of these systems available. So how do you differentiate them and how do you know if they are effective? We’ll try to answer these questions as best we can in this article.