Water softeners in Co. Galway. Supplied and fitted.

Galway is a county of two waters

Draw a line roughly north to south through Galway city and you have the two halves of the county. East of it, around Tuam, Athenry, Loughrea, Gort and Ballinasloe, is the east Galway limestone plain, and the water there is hard to very hard. Our regional figure for those towns is around 300 mg/L of calcium carbonate. West of the line is Connemara, granite and bog, where the water is soft and a softener would not earn its money.

Galway city is in between. It drinks from Lough Corrib, treated at Terryland, and Uisce Éireann's figure is around 135 mg/L, moderately hard, because soft Connemara water is blended with harder east Galway water. Put your own Eircode into the checker and it will tell you which side of the line you are on. We would rather tell a Clifden customer not to buy one than fit something that does nothing.

Galway towns we cover

Each of these has its own page with the local reading and supply:

• Water softeners in Tuam, around 300 mg/L
• Water softeners in Loughrea, around 300 mg/L, also covering Athenry and Gort
• Water softeners in Ballinasloe, around 300 mg/L
• Water softeners in Galway city, around 135 mg/L

We also fit in Oranmore, Claregalway, Headford, Mountbellew, Portumna and Craughwell, and anywhere else in east Galway.

Which size suits a Galway house

On east Galway water the AquaSilk Midi is the usual fit for a three or four bed family home with two bathrooms. The Mini suits apartments, couples and smaller houses and fits under a kitchen sink. The Maxi is for big houses with three or more bathrooms. The size picker below marks the right one for your household.

Private wells in Galway

A lot of rural Galway houses are on their own well or a group scheme. In the east, well water is usually hard and can also carry bacteria, iron or manganese that a softener on its own will not touch. For a well we send a sample to an accredited lab and specify the system off the results. See our well water treatment page.

Getting it fitted in Galway

Every install is done by our own plumbers, not a subcontractor. Order the softener fitted online or ring us, send a photo of your stop valve and the space beside it, and we book a morning or afternoon slot. Two to three hours and you have soft water, with the first salt in the tank. For a price first, use the quote form. The full range and the Ireland-wide hardness chart are on our main water softener page.