Water softeners in Co. Kildare. Supplied and fitted.

How hard is the water across Kildare?

Kildare is really two waters. Most of the county, from Naas and Newbridge down to Kildare town, Monasterevin and Athy, drinks groundwater pumped out of the limestone and the Curragh gravels. Uisce Éireann's figure for Naas and Newbridge is around 325 mg/L of calcium carbonate, well into the very hard band. The north-east corner around Maynooth, Celbridge and Leixlip is on Liffey water from the Leixlip plant, the same supply as much of north Dublin, and reads around 200. Still hard, just not as hard.

Either way, scale builds in every cylinder, immersion, electric shower and combi boiler in the county. A whole-house softener on the incoming mains stops it.

Kildare towns we cover

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

• Water softeners in Naas, around 325 mg/L
• Water softeners in Newbridge, around 325 mg/L, also covering Kildare town
• Water softeners in Maynooth, Celbridge and Leixlip, around 200 mg/L

We also fit in Clane, Sallins, Kill, Kilcullen, Prosperous, Kilcock, Monasterevin, Rathangan and Athy, and anywhere else in the county.

Which size suits a Kildare house

On 325 mg/L 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 Kildare

Plenty of rural Kildare houses are on their own well. Well water here is usually hard, but it can also carry iron, manganese or bacteria 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 Kildare

Every install is done by our own plumbers, not a subcontractor, and Kildare is on our doorstep from Dublin. 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.