water softeners

Galway Water Solutions are the main Irish importers of the latest, most reliable U.S. made Clack WS1 water softeners and full range of Clack products.  Clack volumetric (metered) high capacity water softeners have the best efficiency in water use (1% - 2% of annual supply), €2 electric per year, using €15 to €45 euros of food grade salt per year.

Clack Corporation have over 65 years experience in the manufacture of components for water softeners.  They manufacture world leading automatic water softener control valves - the best for high specification, reliability, serviceability, ease of use, soft water brining and with the highest durability and longevity, easily beating all other brands.

Being the best, they out-perform other U.S. water softeners including Autotrol, Culligan, Ionics, Fleck, Eerie, Hague, Kinetico and out-shadow very low quality Far East budget copy water softeners.

Galway Water Solutions supply a full range of the latest Clack volumetric water softeners to the Irish market and provide an installation service to the domestic and commercial market in Galway / Ireland also to many trade dealers who buy the range of Clack products that we import.

water softener information 

Water softeners are the longest established, effective and greenest household watertreatment devices on the global water treatment market.  In the era ofsteam power, UK and US firms discovered water softening could helpsteam engines beset by scale.  Early UK pioneers Kennicott (1902) andPermutit (1908) were followed by Clack, Culligan and later GE andSiemens.  Watersofteners became high-tech after WWII when syntheticresin basedwater softeners were introduced.

Water softeners are the most costeffective energy saving devices within the household plumbing system. No other household plumbed device provides the energy savings of water softeners, or does the cost of any plumbed system getre-paid as soon as water softeners.  Water softeners guarantee to fully soften water at the lowest lifetimecosts, typically the running cost per year of just one or two restaurant steak dinners.

Water softeners have formed thebackbone of green energy saving devices since their inception, keepingheating systems free from scale especiallyaround the copper cylinder spiral coil heat transfer area of anyheating system.  Water softeners allow the removal of dissolved limestonefrom hard water, exchanging problem ions with harmless ions.  Limescalecauses plumbing damage by hard scale build up, staining and theproblems of itchy skin, badly washed hair and poor results in washingclothes.

Clack water softeners utilise flow monitoring and memory functions,recording performance, monitoring water volumes, backwash and peakwater flows over system life.  Water softeners are sealedwith negative ion exchange food grade polymer resins thatcause positive calcium ions in hard water to cling to the resin over aperiod of time - water softeners then calculate when to wash thelime, chloride ions and excess sodium ions collected out into a waste pipe using just very few sodium ions to regenerate the resin. Water softeners are proven not to discharge any hazardsto bio or sceptic systems and do not impart sodium chloride tohousehold supplies.

There is zero sodium chloride in softened water - just trace levels ofsodium, often below the level found in officially "low sodium"beverages such as supermarket soft drinks and close to thelevel of Tesco bottled waters.  In short, even 1000 litres ofsoftened water would not yield enough sodium to fill a tea spoon andbecause there are no chlorides - salt taste is completely absent.

Trace sodium in softened water is mostly below the EU limit of 200 mg/l, usually between 80 to 160 mg/l (ppm) factoring in sodium in sourcewater.  Many supermarket carbonated soft drinks exceed 200 mg/l, milkhas 500 mg/l and Heinz soups contain 3000 mg/l.  The healthysodium intake we require each day in our diets is2,400 mg.  Of course milk, soup and softened water are all harmless foralmost all age groups in normal use.  Baby formula should be preparedas recommended by the manufacturers.

Domestic metered water softeners typically use 2 euros of electric and 2 to 6bags of food grade salt tablets per year costing from €15 to €45. Salt use depends on water hardness and amount of water used.  Bags ofsalt cost from 7 euros each.  Savings on household cleaning / bathingproducts / plumbing repairs can exceed 300 euros per year, repaying thecost of water softeners in a very short time, along with improvingqualityof life considerably. 

The older timer based water softeners, could eat up to12 to 20 bags of salt per year.  The difference in cost of timer and meter watersofteners nowadays is not usually more than 100euros.  Watersofteners now costfrom 400 euros and even the larger, most sophisticated domesticmetered water softeners cost up to €1,200.

Find a full list of water softeners, iron / manganese filters, odour/ colour removal water filters, grit and turbidity removal waterfilters, ultraviolet sterilisers, reverse osmosis water filters andother specialist water treatment systems in our pdf brochure on thehome page.

See pricing page for our popular water softeners:

10x23 water softeners

10x35 water softeners

10x44 water softeners

10x54 water softeners

13x54 water softeners 

10x54 stainless steel water softeners 

10x54 ion-max stainless steel water softeners 

also available:

apartment water softeners

duplex water softeners

commercial water softeners

industrial water softeners

ex demo and clearance water softeners