Plumbed-in water coolers offer chilled water at a fraction of the cost of bottled water coolers. (As a rough guide, a 19 litre bottle costs around ?6.50, while 19 litres of water from a point-of-use (POU) cooler costs just 1.33p!). There are numerous other advantages of plumbed-in coolers over bottled ones. It only makes sense to choose a bottled water cooler if you have no mains water facilities available (see our revolutionary satellite system for an intermediate solution).

All of our plumbed-in coolers can be fitted with water filters. Many users are surprised by how good unfiltered chilled water tastes - but others prefer a filter to be fitted to remove chlorine and fluoride etc. Whether or not you should have a filter fitted depends on personal taste and the quality of mains water in your area. A filter can be added after purchase, although this may incur an additional charge. Information on different types of water filters is available. Most of the water coolers stocked come in a number of versions which differ in the types of water dispensed (chilled, ambient, hot and sparkling). Traditional water coolers require periodic (about every six months) sanitization (a very simple internal cleaning and sterilisation process that takes less than 15 minutes). Today, many coolers use a new direct chill process, however, which completely eliminates the need for sanitisation. Watch out for this in the item desciptions.