Filtration & Softening
Filtration and softening sized to a proper water test, not a guess, so the treatment actually matches what your ground is putting out.
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Borehole and well-point water is part of life around Paarl, on the farms and smallholdings long before Day Zero, and on plenty of town properties since. But the granite groundwater under the Berg River valley runs hard and often iron-rich, so it stains, it scales, and by law it needs a meter. That side of it is exactly what we handle.
Tell us what your borehole or well-point is doing and we’ll phone back with a straight, upfront price.
Everything on the plumbing side of a borehole or well-point, treating the water, steadying the pressure and keeping the connection legal.
Filtration and softening sized to a proper water test, not a guess, so the treatment actually matches what your ground is putting out.
The rust-brown marks iron and manganese leave on basins, baths, tiles and washing, stopped at the source instead of scrubbed off forever.
Hardness that furs up geysers, kettles and pipes, and grit that jams valves and the fine screens in taps, cleared out and kept out.
Borehole and well-point pumps set and adjusted so the whole house gets steady, even pressure at every tap.
Break tanks and pumps plumbed with a proper air gap, so the taps keep running when the borehole rests and the two supplies never mix.
Fitting the meter the Drakenstein by-law requires on any borehole or well-point connection, done properly the first time.
Boreholes and well-points are nothing new around here. Long before Day Zero, the wine and fruit farms, smallholdings and plots ringing Paarl, out towards Windmeul and Wellington, leaned on groundwater for the lands and the house alike. The 2017–18 drought simply pushed a lot of town households in Lemoenkloof and Klein Parys onto the same idea. So this is a well-understood setup in the Boland; the catch is what the local geology does to the water.
Paarl sits at the foot of a giant granite dome, and groundwater from granite country is typically hard and often carries iron and manganese. That is why so many local boreholes leave rust or brown staining on basins, baths, tiles and laundry, while the hardness quietly bakes scale into geysers, kettles, pipes and appliances. Sediment does the slow damage, clogging cartridge filters, sticking valves and blocking the fine screens inside taps and the geyser inlet.
The right fix is never a single off-the-shelf cartridge. We work from a water test, then match filtration and softening to what your particular borehole actually holds, and that same test is how you find out whether the water is suitable for drinking and what treatment that would take. On the legal side, the Drakenstein by-law requires a measuring device on every borehole, so we install that. It also draws a hard line we see broken all over Paarl: borehole water may never be connected into potable plumbing that is on the municipal supply, which rules out the shared tee and changeover valve a lot of homes were fitted with. We plumb it the way it should be done, either separate lines to the garden and outside taps, or a break tank with a physical air gap on the municipal top-up, so the house runs off groundwater without anything ever flowing back into the main.
From our base near Virgin Active in Paarl we look after boreholes and well-points across town, Lemoenkloof, Klein Parys and Dal Josafat, and out on the farms and plots towards Windmeul, Simondium, Klapmuts and Wellington, plus the estates at Val de Vie, Pearl Valley and Boschenmeer.
The reasons borehole and well-point customers around Paarl keep our number, and the parts of the job we won’t cut corners on.
The price is agreed before we touch a pump or a filter, so nothing unexpected lands on the invoice.
Quick to reach town and the surrounding farms and plots during business hours.
A Boland team based in Paarl that knows how the local granite-country water behaves.
We keep the work area clean and leave your home the way we found it.
The questions Paarl homeowners on borehole and well-point water ask us most.
Almost always iron and manganese. Paarl’s granite groundwater is naturally rich in both, and as they oxidise they leave the rust-brown or grey-black marks you see on basins, baths, tiles and laundry. Surface cleaning won’t stop it coming back, the answer is filtration matched to a water test that removes the metals before the water reaches your taps.
That’s exactly what a water test tells you. Borehole water isn’t automatically safe or unsafe to drink, it depends what’s in your particular borehole. A lab test shows the iron, manganese, hardness and any bacterial load, and from there we can say what treatment it needs and whether it’s suitable for drinking. We then plumb in the filtration or disinfection the results call for.
Yes. The Drakenstein Local Municipality water by-law requires a meter on any borehole or well-point connection in Paarl. It’s a legal requirement, not an optional extra, and we install a compliant meter as part of setting up or regularising your connection.
Yes, but it has to be done the compliant way. The Drakenstein by-law doesn’t allow borehole water to be connected into potable plumbing that’s on the municipal supply, so a shared tee with a changeover valve is out. What we do instead is run the two through a break tank: the borehole feeds the tank, the municipal top-up discharges into it across a physical air gap, and the house is pumped from the tank. Nothing can flow backwards into the municipal main, the water gets treated on its way in, and the taps stay at steady pressure when the borehole is resting. Where a house doesn’t need groundwater indoors at all, the cheaper answer is separate lines running the borehole to the garden, pool and outside taps only.
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