Water softener
The single biggest improvement to a home’s water. The unglamorous workhorse. The one most homes don’t have.
From ₹14,000. Final price after free survey. EMI from ₹1,167/month via Bajaj Finserv / Snapmint.
The problem this solves
What changes when the water is right.
Hard water dries skin, dulls hair, stains kurtas. Same family, same routine, different water.
Geyser elements scale. Heating times lengthen. Eventually elements burn out.
Washing machines and dishwashers fail early. Detergent doesn’t lather. Cycle times rise.
Soap consumption doubles on hard water without anyone noticing. Costs compound silently.
How we solve it
Sized to the water, the house, and the people in it.
Every Uniwater water softener starts with a free water test and a site survey. The chemistry decides the media. The household decides the capacity. The architecture decides where it goes.
Catalogue sizes are starting points, not the sale. Our 17-rule auto-suggest engine generates a bill of materials specific to your water analysis, pressure, and draw — not a generic SKU pulled off a shelf.
Engineered, not bought off a shelf.
Inside the vessel
The engineering, in section.
What the system looks like on the cutaway. Media bed, distributor, freeboard, control head — the visible engineering that decides what the water does over the next fifteen years.
What’s included
Everything to put it in. Everything to keep it running.
Engineered vessel + media
FRP or SS316 vessel, sized to your draw and chemistry. Media chosen for the specific problem.
Controls & valves
Manual or automatic regeneration. Pressure gauges and flow meters where they matter.
Installation
Plumbing, electrical, mounting, and commissioning. Documented before handover.
Water analysis
Pre-install and post-install parameter readings. Filed with your quote.
One-year warranty
All system components covered. Replacement, not repair-by-letter.
One-year AMC included
Monthly preventive service on Comprehensive / Premium tiers. Standard tier gets quarterly.
Where it goes
Specific media for a specific problem.
General sediment and carbon filtration will not remove dissolved minerals or trace metals. A specialised media filter does one thing well.
Resin selection
SAC, SBA, or mixed-bed — chosen by what needs to leave.
Vessel grade
FRP for residential. SS316 for premium and institutional.
Regeneration
Manual on simple installs. Brine-automatic on larger loads.
Architectural patterns
How the system fits, on paper.
Section drawings of the install patterns we use most often for this system. Pre-tile, mid-construction, or as a retrofit — the right pattern is decided at survey, against the house.
02 · Utility room
Indoor controlled environment. Easiest service access, full 4-stage train fits.
03 · Terrace
Rooftop install with weather hood. Uses existing OHT gravity-feed, exposed to elements.
04 · Basement
Villa basement plant room. Centralised, sump pit handles backwash, full 4-stage train fits.
Configurations
Three or four sizes. Decided by load, not by SKU.
We don’t expose part numbers. The configuration is decided at survey based on bathroom count, household draw, and water chemistry.
Bathroom Mono / Duo / Trio
Per-bathroom
Local softening at the bathroom feed. Manual or automatic regeneration.
Whole-house 2K / 4K / 6K LPH
Inlet
Soft water to every tap. Brine regeneration on a schedule.
Technical specifications
For the architect, plumber, or engineer.
Surface what matters; collapse what doesn’t. Open the rows below for the engineering detail.
Capacity & sizing
- Capacity range
- 500 — 6,000 LPH (sized per bathroom or whole-house)
- Service flow
- Sized to peak household draw
- Backwash flow
- 1.5× service flow
Materials & media
- Vessel
- FRP / SS316 (Plastic or Stainless Steel)
- Media
- Per-solution — selected at survey
- Internal piping
- CPVC / SS316
Controls & regeneration
- Mode
- Manual or Automatic
- Regeneration
- Timer-based or volumetric on Automatic models
- Indicators
- Pressure gauges; flow indicator on Automatic models
Installation requirements
- Inlet pressure
- 1.5 — 4.5 kg/cm²
- Power
- 230V AC for Automatic models; none for Manual
- Drain
- Adjacent to install location
- Space
- Sized per configuration; see install diagram
Take the spec to your architect.
A 2-page PDF data sheet with capacities, materials, dimensions, and the install diagram.
Frequently asked
What homeowners ask before they book.
Do I need to know my TDS or hardness before booking a survey?
How long does installation take?
What if my supply chemistry changes over the years?
Can I see what the system would cost before the survey?
Is the AMC included? What does it cover?
Real installs
Where these systems are running today.
Premium apartment, Salt Lake, Kolkata. Utility-room install.
Independent villa, Patia, Bhubaneswar. Basement plant.
Penthouse, New Town, Kolkata. Terrace install with gravity feed.
Related
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Iron filter
Borewell-fed homes have it. Old galvanised mains have it. Orange grout. Faint stains under the WC rim.
Whole-house filtration
One softened, filtered supply for the whole house. Every shower, every sink, every appliance.
Bathroom water filters
A bathroom filter has to do three things at once: treat the water, fit the space, not announce itself.
Related reading
The thinking behind this system.
Pieces from the Journal that cover the chemistry, the decision, and the practice this solution rests on.
Soft water vs salt water: what your skin actually feels
Ion exchange swaps calcium for sodium. Some assume salty water. It does not. What softening actually does to your bath water, plain.
Iron, hardness, and the order they should be treated in
Iron, calcium-magnesium, particulate. Treating them in the wrong order rebuilds the softener inside a year. The right order, explained.
How to read a water test report
TDS, hardness, iron, pH, FRC — five numbers that decide what your water needs. What each one measures, what the thresholds mean, and what to ask the tester.