Water Softeners in Port Perry, Greenbank and Blackstock

Port Perry water: a lake town on well water

People assume Port Perry drinks Lake Scugog. It does not. The taps run on municipal groundwater wells, and groundwater here is very hard. Durham Region lists Port Perry at 274 mg/L, about 16.0 grains per gallon. Greenbank is 276, about 16.1. Blackstock is 316, about 18.5. Every one of them is well over the 180 very hard line.

Health Canada's hardness document describes water over 200 mg/L as poor, though people tolerate it. That matches what you see. Crust on the taps, cloudy glasses, scale flaking out of the shower head, and a water heater that does not last as long as it should.

Durham says its water is safe and that a softener is a personal preference. That is fair. Your water is safe. It is also very hard, and you already know it. A water softener sized for your system and household ends the scale, and we prove it with a hardness reading before and after install.

• Softeners sized for 274 to 316 mg/L
• Sizing for Port Perry, Greenbank or Blackstock, not a one-size guess
• Baseline reading before install, after reading once it is running
• Fixed written price
• In-depth well water testing for Scugog Island and the farms
• Canadian-made systems, built in Barrie

Three well systems, one problem

Port Perry, Greenbank and Blackstock are separate systems with separate wells, and the numbers are close but not the same. Blackstock is the hardest at 316 mg/L. We size from your system's number and your household: people, bathrooms, and whether you run a tankless heater. You get a fixed written price for one softener that fits.

Install day is simple. Before we connect anything, we read the hardness at your kitchen tap. That is your baseline. We install, program from that reading, then read the same tap again. You see both numbers. We do not ask you to take our word for it.

Scugog Island and the farm country: wells, tested properly

Most of the Township of Scugog is outside those three systems, on private wells. A well is not town water. Nobody tests it but you. The Region's Health Department tests private wells for bacteria, and that is worth doing. It does not cover nitrates, sodium, iron, sulphur or metals, and on farm land nitrates matter.

For a well, book in-depth well water testing before any treatment. We test on site and through an Ontario laboratory, explain the results in plain language, then treat in order: sediment, iron and sulphur, softener, UV. If nitrates come back high, reverse osmosis at the kitchen tap is the drinking water answer. Cottages drawing from Lake Scugog itself need a lake water system, not a softener.