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07/10/2026

2000 to 0.

We took over this borehole treatment system after the client ran their own test. Raw borehole water: 500 coliforms. Water out of the RO: 2000. The system they paid for to keep the family safe had become the problem.

What we did:
âś… Pulled all media and cartridges
âś… Drained the tank
âś… Sterilized the full system through the house
âś… Tested before and after disinfection
âś… New media, new cartridges, recommissioned

Retest: 0 coliforms. E. coli not detected.

A filter you never service isn't a filter. It's an incubator.

On borehole water? Get it tested. Link in bio.

23/09/2026

A large number of automatic borehole filter heads are backwashing in the dark. Badly.

Two in the morning is when the heads are timed to run their clean cycle. Sensible enough: shutting off supply in daylight means your taps go dry. Nobody wants that conversation before coffee.

Here is the problem nobody tells you.

At two in the morning, your tanks are full. Full tanks mean the float switch has already told the borehole controller to rest. Borehole controller resting means no water is moving through the vessels. And a backwash with no water passing through it is just a cycle. A performance. Nothing gets cleaned.

The filter head is doing its job. The borehole controller is doing its job. They just have no idea the other one exists.

There is a communication cable for exactly this reason. It tells the borehole controller: ignore the float switch for now, I need you on so I can flush. Without it wired in, the two systems spend every night politely not talking to each other while your filtration media quietly stops working.

What you get is a vessel that looks fine, reads fine, and filters less with every passing month. No alarm. No obvious symptom. Just gradually worse water from a system you were told was sorted.

The cable costs very little. The conversation it starts, at two in the morning, between two components that never meet, is the only reason the system actually does what it was sold to do.

Silence between machines is not peace. It is just a problem nobody has noticed yet.

Andy Plumbers. Installing Happiness.
Fairland, Randburg. 011 477 1118. andyplumbers.co.za

05/08/2026

Nobody announces a decision to just connect the borehole and leave it.

It happens quietly. The pump works, the pressure is fine, the water looks the same as any other water, and there are seventeen other things on the list.

So the borehole water goes to the kitchen cold tap and the bathrooms and the geyser, and the family drinks it and showers in it and makes the school lunch with it, and the thinking is that it will be fine.

Most of the time nobody gets obviously sick.

But the kids are smaller. Their kidneys are newer. The thresholds that apply to adults do not apply to a six-year-old drinking a litre and a half a day from a source that has never been tested.

The families who tested first, who installed the right treatment for what the test found, who know exactly what is in the glass before a small person drinks it, those families sleep through the night with a specific kind of quiet.

Not because the water is fancy.

Because they know what it is.

Installing Happiness

The UV light is doing its job. Nobody is arguing with the UV light.But borehole water does not only carry bacteria. It c...
04/08/2026

The UV light is doing its job. Nobody is arguing with the UV light.

But borehole water does not only carry bacteria. It carries dissolved minerals, heavy metals, and sediment that a UV lamp cannot touch because light does not filter chemistry.

A UV system treats one category of problem. Borehole water tends to bring several.

The homeowners who fitted a UV light and called it done have one layer of protection on a multi-layer problem. They know they did something. They do not know how much they left undone.

RO with remineralisation handles the full picture: sediment, dissolved solids, bacteria, and then puts the right minerals back in the right ratios. That is the difference between one answer and the correct one.

Installing Happiness

Test it first.Borehole water testing and treatment in Northcliff starts with a certified lab result, not a guess. What c...
03/08/2026

Test it first.

Borehole water testing and treatment in Northcliff starts with a certified lab result, not a guess. What comes out of your borehole depends on the geology beneath your stand, the depth of the casing and the season, and none of those variables are constant.

Most homeowners assume borehole water is either fine or not fine. The truth is more specific: South African guidelines give you a measurable benchmark, and your water either meets it or it does not. Treatment is then designed around that result. Where reverse osmosis with remineralisation is warranted, it is specified because the data says so, not because it is the package on offer.

Safe water at the tap is an engineered outcome.

Andy Plumbers. Installing Happiness.
Fairland, Randburg. 011 477 1118. andyplumbers.co.za

03/08/2026

Natural is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Every week someone tells us their borehole water is pure because it comes from the ground, not a treatment plant. And they are serious. They are proud of it. There is a whole lifestyle identity built around it.

Natural means it formed without a factory. It does not mean it formed without iron bacteria, high TDS, manganese staining, or the runoff from the neighbour's property two farms up.

The ground is not a filter. It is a medium. Things dissolve into it and travel with it.

The families who connect a borehole to the house and treat the water properly before it hits a single glass, those families have natural water that is also safe water. Both things at once.

The families who skip the treatment because the water looks honest, they are drinking their convictions.

Natural and safe are not the same sentence.

They can be. They just need a little help getting there.

Installing Happiness

24/07/2026

Most homeowners know their water is "treated". Almost none know what that means.

In this setup there are eight stages between raw borehole water and the glass you actually drink. Each one removes something the last stage cannot. Get the order wrong and one stage quietly undoes another.

Our borehole water treatment work starts before we touch a single fitting: we test first, then we design. Two tanks. Two pumps. Three bag filters. A calcite vessel to push the pH back up after it drops. A flow meter so you know exactly what is moving through the system. A UV light at the end, because UV only works clean, and everything before it is making sure it gets that chance.

Order matters as much as the equipment. A system with cheaper components in the right sequence will outperform an expensive one assembled in the wrong direction.

Raw water in, treated water out. The gap between those two things is the whole job.

Andy Plumbers. Installing Happiness.
Fairland, Randburg. 011 477 1118. andyplumbers.co.za

The borehole cost more than your car. You tested it with your eyes.Most borehole water looks clean. That is not the same...
10/07/2026

The borehole cost more than your car. You tested it with your eyes.

Most borehole water looks clean. That is not the same as being clean. Coliform, nitrates, heavy metals: none of them have a colour. A basic water test before connecting to your house costs less than a plumber's callout, and it is the only thing standing between your geyser element and a slow death from mineral scale, or your family and something you cannot name on a Wednesday morning.

You did not spend that money just to find out the hard way.

Andy Plumbers. Installing Happiness.
Fairland, Randburg. 011 477 1118. andyplumbers.co.za

10/07/2026

Two summers. No cover. That's all it takes to turn a perfectly good Runxin valve into a cracked, brittle paperweight.

The Highveld sun is not decorative. UV breaks down plastic the way it breaks down everything else left outside without a second thought. The valve housing goes first. Then the seals. Then you are replacing a unit that had years left in it.

The frustrating part: the media inside is usually fine. The water treatment is fine. The whole system is sitting there, perfectly capable, just waiting on one small plastic part that could not survive two summers of direct exposure to take the automation out of the process.

A UV cover is not a luxury add-on. It is the reason the rest of the investment makes it to year five instead of year two.

Protect the outside. The inside will look after itself.

Andy Plumbers. Installing Happiness.
Fairland, Randburg. 011 477 1118. andyplumbers.co.za

That rust-coloured ring in the basin. Nobody spilled anything.It shows up slowly. A faint mark where the water sits over...
09/07/2026

That rust-coloured ring in the basin. Nobody spilled anything.

It shows up slowly. A faint mark where the water sits overnight, then dries. You wipe it away. It comes back.

Iron in the rock, dissolved and invisible, until it meets air. That is when it shows itself.

A Northcliff basin will tell you what the ground is carrying before any test does. You just have to look.

The borehole gave you something the street does not have. Water when the street has none. The garden green on a dry morning. That part works.

But the basin is asking a question. And it is worth answering.

Filtration handles what the ground puts in. Not a scare, not a complicated system, just the honest next step after a good borehole. One handles supply. The other handles trust.

The garden is green. The basin is white. Both matter.

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Monday 06:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 06:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 06:00 - 17:00
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