Water softener installation: Installed Service Price Index

The median published figure in the Installed Service Price Index is 172 USD across 2 sources' own pages (range 169 to 175 USD), read 12 September 2026.

172 USD Median published figure read 5 Oct 2026
169 to 175 USD Range lowest to highest published figure
2 Sources with a figure of 25 read in full, 5 Oct 2026
2 of 25 Sources read that publish one 8% publish a figure at all
  1. WaterCheck Testing Kits from National Testing Laboratories Ltd., Pure Water Products, LLC175 USD
  2. Watercheck Water Testing Kit 1 & 2 | National Testing Laboratories, Ltd.169 USD
One figure per source, highest first.median 172 USD
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WaterCheck Testing Kits from National Testing Laboratories Ltd., Pure Water Products, LLC175 USD
Watercheck Water Testing Kit 1 & 2 | National Testing Laboratories, Ltd.169 USD

2 of the 25 named sources read in full publish a figure; 23 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

The sentence each figure was read from (2)

Read in full, publishes no figure

23 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

2 of the 25 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 23 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 116 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the published price of the work rather than the box: installation labour (hours and dollars), the annual service plan, the replacement-filter and salt cost per year, and the certified-laboratory test per panel; reduced to a total cost of ownership per system type over five and ten years, which is the number that actually decides a purchase and which nobody publishes because the box and the job are sold by different people.

Beside it, the share of installers and labs that publish a price at all, and the spread between a national chain's flat rate and the local band.

116 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

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The median published figure in the Installed Service Price Index is 172 USD across 2 sources' own pages (range 169 to 175 USD), read 12 September 2026.

2 of the 25 named sources read in full publish a figure; 23 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

Cite as: "The Water Hub Installed Service Price Index", updated 2026-10-05, https://thewaterhub.org/datasets/installed-service-price-index/.

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172 USD

median published figure, Installed Service Price Index, across 2 sources, read 12 September 2026

Source: The Water Hub Installed Service Price Index

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