Which type of salt do you need?

Choosing the right type of salt for your Water Softener

Water Softener Salt is made in three forms, Tablet Salt, Granular Salt and Block Salt. It's made from ordinary common salt, sodium chloride - the same type of salt you sprinkle on your chips! The major difference being the way it's compacted into the different grades. Like most UK salt distributors, Salt-Supplies.co.uk sell all three grades in a range of convenient and cost effective quantities for delivery throughout england.

Tablet salt (sometimes called Pellet Salt) is the most common, being used in most domestic and many commercial water softeners. The salt tablets are pillow shaped, like a humbug sweet or sometimes a round disc roughly the size of a 10p coin, maybe 20mm high. Typically tablet salt is packed in 25kg bags, although 10kg bags are available from some suppliers but at a handsome price premium. Most single cylinder softeners use salt tablets and popular brands include Hydrosoft, Aquasol, Care Cubes, Broste Pioneer, Supreme and many others.

Block Salt is the newest development in water softening salt. Designed to be very dense to get the maximum salt autonomy period (the length of time between refills) for the latest generation of small twin cylinder non electric block salt water softeners. Salt blocks come in packs of two, each weighing 4kg, The pack has a built-in handle making lifting and handling a very easy option and particularly suitable for softener owners who may be older or with mobility or lifting difficulties. Although block salt is more expensive on a weight for weight basis, it's used in softeners that are usually very efficient, so in many cases the total cost is similar overall. The main brands of block salt are Harveys Block Salt, Kinetico Block Salt, Aquasol and Culligan Block Salt. They are all universally suitable for the popular brands of block salt water softener including Kinetico, Mini Max, crown, Twin-tec, Monarch and many others

Granular Salt, sometimes known as granulated salt is used for dishwashers, some older single cylinder water softeners and also commercial scale softeners. Some Culligan brands of softener also use granular salt which is known as Care Crystals. Other popular makes include Hydrosoft granules, Granulite and Supreme. 25Kg bags are pretty standard for salt granules although sometimes 10kg bags are available, but at a significant price premium.

Salt-Supplies.co.uk offer all grades of salt for both domestic and commercial water softeners with a quick and reliable delivery service throughout mainland england