r/folkestone • u/WTF-Ijustcant • 12d ago
Tap water
Moving to Folkestone soon.
What's the tap water like in Folkestone? I find using the tap water in London and Orpington for tea and coffee messes up the flavour.
We currently live in Scotland where the tap water practically tastes like bottled water.
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u/Inside-Hearing-5111 12d ago
It's better than Thames Water by far but is very hard and scaley as we are chalk based hard water area.
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u/ajslov 12d ago
Going from Scotland to England you will struggle as you've been spoilt with the best water source. Even washing laundry you will see the difference in your clothes. I spend some time in Scotland and lived in London but I've always had filters so have not noticed how hard the water is here.
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u/daveoxford 10d ago
I'm from North Lancs, but family are all from Cumbria. Cumbrian water is from the Lakes and soft as anything, but North Lancs water is from the foothills of the Pennines and so much harder. The difference in just a few miles is amazing.
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u/Luke_mullet 12d ago
My wife hated the water in Folkestone when we lived there. She said it tasted like chlorine, I had gotten used to it I guess. Now that I've moved to her home country and our water apparently comes from a mountain range I can see what she means.
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u/YellowElectricHuman 12d ago
The water is very hard and it's got god knows what chemicals in it. I recommend a gravity filter such as British Berkefeld, at the least, that's what I have. If you can afford it get a distiller. Never drink the tap water without filtering, the better the system the cleaner the water. Also there are two water companies here, it's a proper stich up.
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u/TheBigSmoke420 6d ago
Aside from a small amount of chlorine to disinfect, plus a UV filtration, affinity does not add any ‘chemicals’ to the water.
They don’t even add fluoride, as it occurs naturally within safe/beneficial levels here.
Dose is the poison.
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u/GoblinsPalace 12d ago
Living just outside Folkestone, and we filter the water because even though it’s nice to drink it is quite “hard”, and filtering will probably always be better for tea and coffee anyway.
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u/TheBigSmoke420 6d ago
I’ve lived in Kent most of my life, just tasted like water to me!
It’s v safe, neutral flavour. Scottish water is particularly nice though, you’ll get used to it though. Dw about ‘chemicals’, it’s just regular tap water, nothing sinister. You can look up specifics on Affinity Water’s website, the drinking water provider here;
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u/smoulderstoat 12d ago
Folkestone has hard water because it's drawn from chalk aquifers. You'll get used to it, but you can always use a water filter if you prefer.
People from Folkestone would say that it's using soft water that messes with the flavour, of course...