Pay monthly with humm
Description
Since July 2020, county councils need a water sample taken by a trained technician from an accredited laboratory before they'll consider a private well grant application. You can't take this one yourself. Pick your county and a Fitz Scientific technician comes to the house, takes the sample from your kitchen tap and brings it straight back to their lab in Drogheda the same day.
How it works
- Choose your county and order. Use the well's address as the delivery address, and add a mobile number so the lab can ring you.
- Fitz Scientific phones you to arrange a day. Allow up to 2 weeks for a slot in your area.
- The technician samples your kitchen tap. Grant samples are only taken there.
- If bacteria are found you're told by email within 3 days
- Your Certificate of Analysis is emailed within 10 working days, ready for your grant application
What it tests
The tests your council asks for. In Meath, for example: arsenic, ammonia, colour, conductivity, iron, nitrate, pH, hardness, turbidity, total coliforms, E. coli, fluoride, manganese, taste and odour. Councils change their lists from time to time, so check the current requirements with yours before you apply.
Counties covered
Cavan, Fingal, Kildare, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, South Dublin, Tipperary, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow. Not on the list? Ring us on 01 554 6266 and we'll point you in the right direction.
The grant application also needs a quote for the treatment. Send us the certificate and we'll give you the itemised quote the council asks for. See well water treatment.
- Analysed by Fitz Scientific, Drogheda
- INAB-accredited lab, ISO 17025
- Technician samples at your house
- Certificate of Analysis by email
How the grant test works
- 1
Order for your county
Use the well's address as the delivery address and add a mobile number at checkout.
- 2
Fitz Scientific rings you
They arrange a day for the technician. Allow up to 2 weeks for a slot in your area.
- 3
Sample at your kitchen tap
The technician takes it and brings it straight back to the lab in Drogheda the same day.
- 4
Certificate for your grant
Bacteria alert within 3 days, full Certificate of Analysis within 10 working days.
The test fee comes off your install
If the results show something that needs treating and we supply and fit it within 90 days of your order, we take the full price of this test off the job. Quote your test order number when you book.
Who analyses your water
Fitz Scientific, an independent laboratory in Drogheda, accredited by INAB (the Irish National Accreditation Board) to ISO 17025. We don't test water ourselves: you get an impartial result, and if it shows a problem, our plumbers fix it.
Accredited results are marked on the certificate.
Your certificate, and who sees it
- Fitz Scientific emails your Certificate of Analysis to you
- They send us a copy, so we can talk you through it and price any treatment
- Rather we didn't get a copy? Say so in the order note at checkout
