Newmarket's municipal water is hard, and the homes on private wells around Holland Landing, Queensville and Mount Albert add iron and sulphur on top. We are a licensed plumbing company, not a water store: we test, size, install and service the system, and we stand behind the plumbing.
White scale on faucets, shower glass and the kettle. Soap that will not lather and skin that feels dry after a shower. A water heater that rumbles, runs out sooner than it used to, or died years early. Spotted dishes and stiff laundry. Every appliance that heats water in Newmarket is building scale from day one, and softening is what stops it.
York Region's supply is a blend of Lake Ontario water and groundwater wells, and the groundwater is what drives the hardness. Newmarket, Holland Landing and Sharon test in the hard-to-very-hard range. Homes on private wells in Queensville and Mount Albert often add orange iron staining and a rotten-egg sulphur smell that a softener alone will not fix.
In most Newmarket houses the softener goes in the basement mechanical room, close to where the main water line comes in and near the water heater, a floor drain and a power outlet. In a finished basement that room can be a tight closet, so we check there is space for the brine tank and a bypass before we write up the price. Putting the softener ahead of the water heater is the point: Newmarket's hard municipal water leaves scale inside the tank, which is what makes a heater rumble, recover slowly and wear out early, and softened water stops that build-up.
We install metered, demand-regenerating softeners sized to your household, under-sink reverse osmosis for drinking water, and iron, sulphur and UV treatment for well homes, with the bypass, drain and connections done to the Ontario Building Code.
Hard water is not a Newmarket quirk, it is the default. A softener sized to the house and installed to code protects every appliance that heats water.
Straightforward, no-surprise service from the first call to the final test.
We test your water at the visit: hardness and iron, plus sulphur and pH on wells, with a plain explanation of the numbers.
An undersized unit on hard Newmarket water regenerates too often and runs through salt, so we size to the tested hardness and the number of people in the house, and on wells we add the iron load to the calculation.
Bypass, drain with an air gap and brine line, and on Holland Landing, Queensville and Mount Albert wells an iron filter plumbed ahead of the softener so iron does not foul the resin.
We set the regeneration schedule, show you how and when to add salt, verify soft water at the tap and leave the manual and our number.
What homeowners in Newmarket, Holland Landing and East Gwillimbury ask before installing a softener.
Same softener and filtration service in the communities next door.
We test, quote a fixed written price, and install across Newmarket, Holland Landing and East Gwillimbury.
