Whole House Filter System

Whole House Filter Systems typically operate maintenance-free for 8-10 years without the need to be drained or even connected to a power supply. What may come across as a needless luxury is, in reality, a measure that helps keep harsh chemicals out of your drinking water, keeps the same chemicals away from your laundered clothing, prevents the degradation of components in your faucets, toilets, bath fixtures, and virtually eliminates other harmful contaminates within your home’s water. You will be drinking and cooking with clean and pure water, but also be able to wash your clothes, bathe, and shower in the same, high-quality, pure water. The peace of mind of not having to repair or replace items and plumbing fixtures within your home is worth the cost of the maintenance-free unit alone. Whole house filtration systems have an additional benefit in that they also lower the amount of particulates within your water in a manner similar to that of a water softener. The system pulls water hardening materials (typically calcium and magnesium) out of the water supply, but a dedicated water softener is far more effective at removing those materials, especially when used in conjunction with the whole home system. Rather than having two separate systems in place, we can install a whole house water filter hybrid system that both filters and softens your water. Whole house water filters are unable to fully treat water pulled directly from a spring or from a well, but is optimal for the pretreated water supplied from your local municipal sources. While saving you money that may be spent on a water softener for your home, you further save money on bottled water purchases (either individual bottles or large water dispensers) and costly filtration systems and their replacement filters. The impact on the environment is significant as well when additional plastic materials aren’t being thrown into the garbage or need to be recycled (which can also waste water, electricity, and the time needed to actually recycle those materials). While the specific chemicals in your water supply can vary, based on your home’s location and the condition of the water supply, a whole house filtration system greatly lowers the amounts of lead and other heavy metals, bacteria and other microorganisms, pesticides and herbicides, iron, manganese, arsenic, and any other harmful or undesirable material from your water. A homeowner may not even be aware of the potential health benefits from high quality water as they have been drinking from municipal sources their entire lives. The additives within water may be causing short-term harm (illness and the like) as well as long-term damage from contaminates (arsenic, lead, and other heavy metals, etc.) that can remain within the body. Municipal water treatment systems have been increasing their levels of chlorine in their water to better combat pathogens. That increase in chlorination affects the taste and odor of the water within your home as well as is detrimental to the rubber components within most plumbing fixtures. Many manufacturers are switching these rubber components over to more durable silicone ones, but chlorinated water still deteriorates those parts down over time.

Negatively charged resin beds are able to draw the positively charged ions within calcium, magnesium, and sodium chloride (salt) particles, pulling the contaminates that typically cause “hard water” out of it. The minerals present in water build up (forming what is typically referred to as “limescale”) on pipe walls and on plumbing fixtures, inside and out. While water softeners reduce these mineral build ups in your household’s water, it does not fully filter other contaminates within your water. To fully remove heavy metals, bacteria and other pathogens, and chlorine from your home’s water supply, you may want to consider installing a whole house filter system to better eliminate other potential contaminates to your water supply.