Harvey Water Softeners

Welcome to our website, and thank you for giving us the opportunity to tell you about the many benefits of softened water with our systems.

We hope we can answer every single question you might have about installing a softener in your home. If you do have any questions, have a look through our water softener FAQ page. If you don’t, why not book a demonstration. It’s free and there is no obligation to buy.

What better way is there to find out about the advantages of soft water than to see them for yourself?

Click play on the video above to hear it like it is!

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Harvey Bowden

MD, Harvey Water Softeners

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Video transcript

Hello! I’m Harvey! Thank you for visiting.

If you’re looking for a water softener, we manufacture the best ones. And we have a wonderful plumbing-in service.

Let me quickly tell you a little story …

It all started 35 years ago, when my wife bought a water softener. I was a plumber at the time, and I was so impressed, I started selling and installing them. Here’s a picture of me in my van, and you can see how large the water softeners were then.

Here’s my first customer, Mr Monk, and look how tall the water softener was, and how heavy the salt was. They wouldn’t fit under a kitchen worktop, so I came up with the idea of using two cylinders, so that it would fit under the sink. I found an American company, that had already designed a valve to fit on large cylinders, so I adapted it to fit on small cylinders, and we launched the Mini Kinetic in 1981, and then the Compak in 1983, and it became a huge success, and we sold hundreds of thousands of softeners, all over England.

Up until the 1990’s, the only salt that was available was in 25kg bags, and they were very heavy. So that’s why I invented block salt. It comes in very handy little 8kg packs. Much more convenient to load your water softener.

That looks good, Harvey!

Yes, Harvey!

Wow!

In 1995, we launched the block salt softener. And then, in the late 90’s, we went back to the drawing board, and designed a completely new softener, which we launched in 2001. Our new design works in duplex parallel. It has a huge meter, so that it can cope with all flow rates, and we cut out the water wasted during regeneration. It’s an altogether much better water softener, designed and manufactured right here in England, for English homes.

Well, here is the Harvey’s block salt softener; easily fits under the kitchen sink; your salt comes in very easy-to-carry 8kg bags, and you just pop the salt in here, once a month. Couldn’t be simpler.

You can also fit them outside the house in specially-made cabinets. You can put them in the garage, or in the airing cupboard, or anywhere it’s convenient.

We also manufacture a budget, single tank water softener, and we also manufacture great big softeners for large users.

Our new machine has been so successful that we had to build a new factory, and it’s become a great British success story. But we still care passionately about every one of our customers, so we only employ nice sales people, who will come and test your water for hardness, and sort out the best water softener for you - and we only employ the best plumbers to do the installation.

We cover the whole country, with local demonstrators and installers, and service engineers.

If you’d like to know more about why you should have a water softener, or why ours is the best, then we’ve got some videos over here to tell you all about it, and we’ve got some pages of writing here.

So go and find out. And when you’ve seen enough, press the green button, and I’ll tell you about our amazing in-home demonstration.

Thank you for watching. Bye bye!