Water softeners in Navan, Co. Meath. Supplied and fitted.

Why Navan water is so hard

Navan sits in the middle of the Boyne valley, and the Boyne drains limestone country. Rain picks up calcium and magnesium as it works through that rock, and by the time the river reaches the treatment plant at Liscarton it is carrying one of the heaviest mineral loads of any public supply in Leinster. Uisce Éireann's figure for the Navan and Trim supply zone is around 355 mg/L of calcium carbonate, well into the very hard band. Most of Dublin, by comparison, is between 75 and 200.

That is why a kettle in Johnstown or Blackcastle furs up in weeks, why the glass on a Navan shower screen never looks clean, and why we replace so many immersion elements and electric shower units around the town.

What hard water does in a Navan home

Every litre that gets heated leaves a little scale behind. In a house on 355 mg/L water that adds up fast:

• Hot cylinders and immersions. Scale coats the element, so it runs longer to heat the same tank and eventually burns out. We see immersions in Navan failing years early.
• Electric showers and mixer valves. The heater can and spray plate block up, the pressure drops and the shower starts cutting out hot and cold.
• Combi boilers and heat exchangers. Scale on the plate heat exchanger throttles the hot water flow and shortens the life of the boiler.
• Washing machines, dishwashers and kettles. All of them scale up and all of them get replaced early.

A whole-house softener fitted where the mains enters the house stops all of it at once. Nothing downstream ever sees hard water again.

Which AquaSilk suits a Navan house

Most of the homes we fit in Navan are three and four bed semi-detached houses in estates like Johnstown, Windtown and Beaufort, with four or five people and two bathrooms. On water this hard the AquaSilk Midi is the usual fit. Smaller households and apartments in the town centre are well covered by the Mini, which tucks under a kitchen sink. Larger houses out the Trim and Kells roads with three or more bathrooms go to the Maxi. The size picker below marks the right one for your household, and you can change it after you check your own Eircode.

Private wells around Navan

Outside the town, in places like Kentstown, Dunshaughlin, Slane and the back roads towards Kells and Athboy, a lot of houses are on their own borehole. Well water in Meath is nearly always 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, which may be a softener alone or a softener with a filter in front of it. Our well water treatment page explains what is involved.

Getting it fitted in Navan

We are a Dublin company and Navan is under an hour up the M3, so it is a routine run for our plumbers. 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. The install takes two to three hours and we leave you with soft water, the first bag of salt in the tank and a clear explanation of how to top it up. The fitted price on this page is the full price for Navan. If you would rather start with a quote, the quote form takes two minutes. For the full range and the Ireland-wide hardness chart, see our main water softener page.