spring water into home

[RSVI]

Hope someone can help.

We're looking into buying a new house and the house is fed with "spring water" not mains that we've been using.

Has anyone got any knowledge with spring water? filters if needed, water shortage, electrical pump, contamination etc........

Really interested in the house, it's the water that's putting us off a little as we can't seem to talk to anyone who knows. Only the environmental health and they didn't say it was that great with a young family.

Any help would be really good.


Thanks

Adam

[derdle]

How many people buy spring water from tesco rather than drink tap water? Tap water has chlorine and flouride and other crap added too. Tap water in the Uk comes from boreholes (man made springs really) rainwater/rivers...think I'd be tempted to stick with the private spring myself. I think the only issue you may have is drying up in dry weather or if the ground water insn't topped up due to water extraction somwhere higher up than you..or a farmer extracting from another borehole near you.

I'd look up Water Engineers or similar in yellowpages/yell.com or maybe have a word with the local water company?

Does this mean you also have a cess pit or are you still connected to mains drainage?

If you have your own spring...I bet you'll still be subject to hose pipe bans!
Paul

[s4woody]

oh delboy are you gonna be selling your peckham spring water again...

[derdle]

We'll all be around there to have our cars washed with pure natural spring water rather than that cr*p from our taps with all it's limescale!

[SteveH]

I'd ask Environment Agency or Local Authority Building Control

[RSVI]

Thanks guys, and of course, you can come round and use the Peckham car wash.

Thinking about having the best of both worlds now

[Dan_S2_Coupe]

when i used to live on the farm we had a natral spring water was brilliant it went through a little pumpin station with some filters and a wierd uv thing 2 kill any thing in the water

[Shaggy]

If you are concerned I would suggest (being and old Marine fish keeper where the water needed to be as pure as my wife *cough*) is to by a Marine fish water testing kit, and maybe a TDS Meter (total Disolved Solids) and test the water. Note the results and then compare them with your local authorities acceptable standards. Us Marine Fish keepers have to filter our water through RO machines to take everything out, we then add back in the good stuff.

My water is <beep>. In fact I took the results of our tap water to the local water board and complained. They dug up half the estate Fecking Cyanide and all sorts in our water supply.