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Water Softener Installation: Your Water Is Hard. We Fix It.

Crust on the taps. Spots on the glasses. A kettle that rattles. You know the water is hard. We install a Canadian-made softener, sized to your town's hardness and your household, and show you the before and after.

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Buy your softener or RO system today

Two ways to buy. Have us install it, with a hardness reading before and after, or buy just the system and install it yourself. Same Canadian-made systems, built in Barrie. Prices plus HST.

With install: we do everything

The install, the bypass and fittings, and a hardness reading before and after so you see the difference. 30,000 and 45,000 grain are the same price.

Fast booking: Buy between 8 am and 5 pm on a business day and we reach out within 30 minutes to book you in, with your install scheduled within two business days.

Most town homesChlor-A-Soft softener with chrome mineral tank and brine tankTown water

Chlor-A-Soft

$3,495installed, plus HST

Softens and takes out chlorine in one tank. 20-year unlimited warranty.

Buy nowOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Buy between 8 am and 5 pm on a business day and we reach out within 30 minutes to book you in, with your install scheduled within two business days. Want drinking water too? Add reverse osmosis for $1,000 at checkout. If your home needs a 60,000 grain unit it is $400 more, and we confirm that with you before install. Terms of sale
Superior Series softener with black mineral tank and brine tankWells

Superior Series

$3,095installed, plus HST

On-demand regeneration with clear-water iron removal. 12-year warranty.

Buy nowOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Buy between 8 am and 5 pm on a business day and we reach out within 30 minutes to book you in, with your install scheduled within two business days. Want drinking water too? Add reverse osmosis for $1,000 at checkout. If your home needs a 60,000 grain unit it is $400 more, and we confirm that with you before install. Terms of sale
Premium Series softener with chrome mineral tank and brine tankTown or well water

Premium Series

$3,295installed, plus HST

Our lowest salt use, as little as 2.5 lb per regeneration. 20-year unlimited warranty.

Buy nowOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Buy between 8 am and 5 pm on a business day and we reach out within 30 minutes to book you in, with your install scheduled within two business days. Want drinking water too? Add reverse osmosis for $1,000 at checkout. If your home needs a 60,000 grain unit it is $400 more, and we confirm that with you before install. Terms of sale
Ultimate Superior 50K softener with black mineral tank and brine tankWells with more iron

Ultimate Superior 50K

$3,695installed, plus HST

Handles up to 10 ppm of clear-water iron. 12-year warranty.

Buy nowOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Buy between 8 am and 5 pm on a business day and we reach out within 30 minutes to book you in, with your install scheduled within two business days. Want drinking water too? Add reverse osmosis for $1,000 at checkout. If your home needs a 60,000 grain unit it is $400 more, and we confirm that with you before install. Terms of sale
Ultimate Premium 50K softener with chrome mineral tank and brine tankWells with more iron

Ultimate Premium 50K

$4,095installed, plus HST

Handles up to 10 ppm of clear-water iron. 20-year unlimited warranty.

Buy nowOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Buy between 8 am and 5 pm on a business day and we reach out within 30 minutes to book you in, with your install scheduled within two business days. Want drinking water too? Add reverse osmosis for $1,000 at checkout. If your home needs a 60,000 grain unit it is $400 more, and we confirm that with you before install. Terms of sale

Just the softener: no install

Comes with a bypass valve and a 3/4 inch brass sweat adapter kit. Free delivery anywhere in the GTA and Barrie.

Chlor-A-Soft softener with chrome mineral tank and brine tank Equipment only · Free delivery in the GTA and Barrie

Chlor-A-Soft

$2,895no install, plus HST

45,000 grain softener with chlorine removal, for town water.

Installed is only $600 more, with the before and after hardness reading. Buy equipmentOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Equipment only, plus HST. Free delivery anywhere in the GTA and Barrie. We call to book a time. Terms of sale
Superior Series softener with black mineral tank and brine tank Equipment only · Free delivery in the GTA and Barrie

Superior Series

$2,495no install, plus HST

45,000 grain softener with clear-water iron removal, for wells.

Installed is only $600 more, with the before and after hardness reading. Buy equipmentOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Equipment only, plus HST. Free delivery anywhere in the GTA and Barrie. We call to book a time. Terms of sale
Premium Series softener with chrome mineral tank and brine tank Equipment only · Free delivery in the GTA and Barrie

Premium Series

$2,695no install, plus HST

45,000 grain softener, lowest salt use, town or well water.

Installed is only $600 more, with the before and after hardness reading. Buy equipmentOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Equipment only, plus HST. Free delivery anywhere in the GTA and Barrie. We call to book a time. Terms of sale
Ultimate Superior 50K softener with black mineral tank and brine tank Equipment only · Free delivery in the GTA and Barrie

Ultimate Superior 50K

$3,095no install, plus HST

50,000 grain softener for wells with up to 10 ppm of clear-water iron.

Installed is only $600 more, with the before and after hardness reading. Buy equipmentOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Equipment only, plus HST. Free delivery anywhere in the GTA and Barrie. We call to book a time. Terms of sale
Ultimate Premium 50K softener with chrome mineral tank and brine tank Equipment only · Free delivery in the GTA and Barrie

Ultimate Premium 50K

$3,495no install, plus HST

50,000 grain softener for wells with up to 10 ppm of clear-water iron.

Installed is only $600 more, with the before and after hardness reading. Buy equipmentOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Equipment only, plus HST. Free delivery anywhere in the GTA and Barrie. We call to book a time. Terms of sale

Reverse osmosis drinking water

Clean drinking water from its own faucet at the kitchen sink. Buy it installed, or just the system with free delivery in the GTA and Barrie.

Otto the otter installing an under-sink reverse osmosis system at a kitchen sinkDrinking water

Reverse osmosis system

$1,495installed, plus HST

Under-sink reverse osmosis with its own faucet at the kitchen sink. $1,000 when added to a softener install.

Buy nowOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.We call to confirm and book your install. Terms of sale
Otto the otter installing an under-sink reverse osmosis system at a kitchen sink Equipment only · Free delivery in the GTA and Barrie

Reverse osmosis system

$895no install, plus HST

Under-sink reverse osmosis with its own faucet at the kitchen sink.

Installed is only $600 more, and we do the plumbing for you. Buy equipmentOr pay over time with Klarna at checkout, subject to approval.Equipment only, plus HST. Free delivery anywhere in the GTA and Barrie. We call to book a time. Terms of sale
Bundle

Add reverse osmosis to any softener: save $495

Buying a softener installed? Tick Add reverse osmosis at checkout and it goes in the same visit for $1,000 plus HST, instead of $1,495 on its own.

Not sure which one? Get a free water test and we tell you, or call or text 289-221-5382. On a well with a lot of iron or a sulphur smell, start with well water testing. Every price is also on the pricing page.

Overview

You do not need a test to know your water is hard

York Region says it plainly on its own drinking water quality page: the water in York Region is usually hard or very hard. Durham and the Simcoe County towns publish their numbers too. Every one of our town pages shows your town's figure and links the report it came from. The question is not whether your water is hard. It is how hard, and what size softener fixes it.

Sizing comes down to four things. The grains of hardness in your water. The people in the house. The bathrooms. And iron, because iron fouls softener resin and needs its own filter ahead of the softener if there is much of it. We install metered, demand-initiated softeners that regenerate on the water you actually use, not on a timer, so you are not burning salt and water on days nobody showered.

There are honest exceptions. Innisfil's Churchill system is soft, at 53.7 mg/L, about 3.1 grains per gallon, in the InnServices annual reports. Barrie's lake-fed zones average 3 to 8 grains, much softer than its well zones at 13 to 20, per the City of Barrie. If that is you, we say so, and you keep your money.

  • Sized from your town's published hardness, your household and your bathrooms
  • Hardness read at your tap before install: the baseline
  • Metered, demand-initiated softeners that regenerate only when needed
  • Bypass valve, drain connection and brine line installed to code
  • Programmed from your reading, not factory defaults
  • Hardness read again after install, so you see the difference
  • On a well: in-depth well water testing first

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Honest Water lawn sign reading Softener installed here, showing Otto the otter floating with a filter cartridge, on the front lawn of a house
Before and after
Local conditions

How hard is the water where you live?

The Lake Simcoe towns are hard. Keswick averages 150 mg/L, about 8.8 grains per gallon, and Georgina 144 mg/L, about 8.4 grains, in York Region's 2026 Q2 results. Beaverton is 148 mg/L, about 8.7 grains, per the Region of Durham. Innisfil's lakeshore system is 126 mg/L, about 7.4 grains, per InnServices. A standard softener, sized to the house, handles all of them.

The groundwater towns are another league. York Region reports Stouffville at 318 mg/L, about 18.6 grains, Mount Albert at 317 mg/L, about 18.5 grains, and Nobleton near King City at 264 mg/L, about 15.4 grains. Durham reports Sunderland in Brock at 345 mg/L, about 20.2 grains, Port Perry at 274 mg/L, about 16.0 grains, and Uxbridge at 186 mg/L, about 10.9 grains. That is very hard water. It needs more resin capacity and a controller set for it.

The Lake Ontario and blended supplies are hard at the low end. Newmarket is 141 mg/L, about 8.2 grains, Aurora 130 mg/L, about 7.6 grains, and Richmond Hill 127 mg/L, about 7.4 grains, per York Region, with Whitby at 125 mg/L, about 7.3 grains, per Durham. In between sit Holland Landing at 168 mg/L and Queensville in East Gwillimbury at 160 mg/L. On the low end the softener is smaller and uses less salt. We size it that way and tell you so.

Installation

Before and after. That is the proof.

We do not ask you to take our word for it. Before we connect anything, we read the hardness at your tap. That is your baseline. We install, program the softener from that number, and read the same tap again. You see both readings. The after number tells you it works. It tells us it is set up right. Where it goes: on the main line after the sediment filter and before the water heater, with a bypass valve, a drain and an outlet within reach, and the brine tank beside it. If you want, we run a hard-water line to the outside taps so you are not softening the garden.

Pricing

What affects the cost of water softener installation

  • The installed price is fixed for each series and published with our water softener prices
  • A 60,000 grain unit for a very large household costs more, and the pricing page shows by how much
  • On a well, an iron or sulphur filter ahead of the softener, quoted after the well test

We quote a fixed written price from your town's hardness and your household, before anything is installed.

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Your water is hard. You already know it. The only real questions are which softener and what size. We get that right, and we prove it at your tap.
Our process

How our water softener installation service works

Size it, quote it, read the hardness, install it, read it again. You see both numbers.

1

Tell us your town and household

Town, water source, people, bathrooms. That is enough to size it.

2

Get a fixed written price

By phone or text, no visit needed. One softener, sized to your hardness and your household.

3

Baseline reading

Before we connect anything, we read your hardness at the kitchen tap.

4

Install and program

Set from your reading, not factory defaults.

5

After reading

Same tap, after install. You see both numbers.

Common questions

Water Softener Installation questions, answered

What homeowners ask before booking. Have a question that is not here? Get in touch and we will answer it.

Do you test my water before you sell me a softener? +
You do not need us to tell you your water is hard. Your town publishes the number and we link it. We read your hardness at install to set the softener up right, and again after so you see it worked. On a well, we test the whole well first.
Is hard water a health problem? +
No. Health Canada treats hardness as an aesthetic issue, not a health one, in its hardness guideline document. It is a scale problem: kettles, fixtures, dishwashers and water heaters.
Will softened water taste salty? +
No. Softening adds a small amount of sodium in proportion to the hardness removed, well below what you would taste. Anyone on a strict sodium-restricted diet can use potassium chloride instead, or we can install a reverse osmosis tap for drinking water.
Can I put a softener on a well with iron? +
Only up to a low level of iron, and only if the pH is right. Above that, iron fouls the resin and the softener stops working within months. On a well we start with in-depth well water testing and fit an iron filter ahead of the softener where needed.
How much salt will I use? +
A correctly sized metered softener in a York Region home typically uses a bag or two a month. Timer softeners and oversized units use far more, which is one reason we do not install them.
What about a salt-free softener? +
There is no such thing as a salt-free softener. Salt-free conditioners change how hardness behaves so it does not stick to surfaces as scale, but they do not remove it. They suit some homes and not others, and we explain the difference on our salt-free conditioners page.
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Your water is hard. Let's fix it.

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