What is Hard Water?
Bottled water can become costly, the plastic bottles overload our landfills and litter our cities' green spaces. Hard water is caused by dissolved minerals and sediments of calcium and magnesium; and is measured in grains per gallon(gpg). When combined with heat or soap, hard water becomes a problem for homeowners because it creates a formation of scale build-up all around your home and in your plumbing. Likewise, the soap your family uses reacts with hard water in such a way as to create soap scum, making your cleaning duties around the house that much harder. Soap scum can stain and discolor your fixtures, your fabrics come out of the washer not as bright and clean feeling, and your hair, skin, and nails are not as lusterous looking due to the left over soap scum lingering all around your home.
Measuring Hard Water
Soft: 0.6 to 3.6 gpg
Moderate: 3.6 to 7.0 gpg
Hard: 7.0 to 10.5 gpg
Very Hard: Greater than 10.5 gpg
Hard water presents itself in more visible ways all around your homel, from the build up on your shower heads and faucets, to the spots and stains on your dishes and shower walls. Hard water also poses other unseen threats that can become much larger problems, causing costly damages to your home's plumbing and water-utilizing appliances. By the same token, your whole home' s water flow may suffer from hard water when scale build up accumulates inside your home's plumbing, hampering the amount of water flow your home enjoys.
Experience the Difference
See the Difference
See the Difference
When you find yourself working harder around your home, you might want to ask a professional how you can make a change to better quality water. We have curated a set of water conditioning systems to combat most needs of the public; our Trained Water Professionals can help solve your problem(s) with the most innovative and dependable products out there. Our Trained Water Treatment Professionals can help you see, feel, and taste the difference in your water for yourself.
See the Difference
See the Difference
See the Difference
Keep your brights brighter and your whites whiter! With softer water, your clothes will last longer and your favorite pair of jeans and shirts are guaranteed to last up to 33% longer on average. Enjoy streak-free dishes and spot free glasses right out of the dishwasher. Spend less time scrubbing and cleaning with numerous products, while finishing your cleaning duties sooner with more time left to enjoy the things that really matter.
Feel the Difference
Taste the Difference
Taste the Difference
Your body will thank you when you combat your hard water problems in your home. From the shower, to your bedding;, soft, cleaner water is the instant boost your hair, skin, and nails never knew they needed. That squeaky clean feeling on your skin after a shower is not the sqeaky clean result you think it is; in fact, that feeling is left over soap deposited onto your skin that dries out your skin faster. Treat your skin and treat your water to a new water conditioning system.
Taste the Difference
Taste the Difference
Taste the Difference
Enjoy the most delicious water. Whether it is for cooking or drinking, your foods and beverages will taste better when prepared with clean water that is free of odors and contaminates. Experience the bold taste of coffee again, stop throwing money away on platic water bottles and costly filtration systems, and see if making the change to soft, conditioned water can give you the difference you have been looking for .
Common Water Problems
Corrosiveness
Corrosiveness
Water from your tap can look, smell, and taste fine, however; it may carry with it minerals like calcium and magnesium, or contaminates such as chlorine or lead. Everyone's water will have a personlaized problem(s); with the help of our Trained Water Professionals, we can diagnose your specific water problem(s) and provide you with the best water solution.
Corrosiveness
Corrosiveness
Corrosiveness
Acidity/Low pH
Water with a low pH level is also known as acid water. This type of water can cause damage to sinks, faucets, and hot water tanks, as well as the water drainage and supply lines of your home; leading to expensive repairs.
Taste & Odor
Corrosiveness
Taste & Odor
Chlorine/Chloramines
Chlorine is used by municipal water treatment plants for disinfection purposes. These contaminates can leave a bad taste and smell to your water. Chlorine can wreak havoc on your hair, skin, appliances, and many more of your water-utilizing appliances.
Taste & Odor
Taste & Odor
Taste & Odor
Iron
Leaves a metallic taste in your drinking water and can lead to rust or black-colored stains on your home's sinks, toilets, showers, and laundry.
Taste & Odor
Taste & Odor
Taste & Odor
Sulfer
Most notable for its distinct "rotten egg" smell.
Contaminates
Taste & Odor
Taste & Odor
Lead
Primarily caused by old pipes in homes built before 1989, lead in your water can be extremely dangerous to your health.
Contaminates
Contaminates
Contaminates
Nitrates
Most commonly found in well water due to septic tank leakage and fertilizers. In high levels, nitrates can be harmful to young children.
How Water Softeners Work
A water Softener is made up of three main components; a control valve, a pressure tank, and a salt tank:
Control Valve:
The control valve determines when regeneration is necessary, the direction of water flow, and the amount of time spent in each cycle.
Pressure Tank:
The pressure tank holds the resin that exchanges sodium for hardness minerals and is under the water line pressure.
Salt Tank:
The salt tank holds the salt that makes the brine solution used to regenerate the softening resin.
Water Softening Stages
The Science Behind Water Softening
A water softener works to remove hardness minerals through a process called ion exchange:
- Raw water runs through the bed of sodium charged softening resin contained in a pressure tank
- Hardness ions attach to the resin, exchanging with the harmless sodium ions
- Eventually the resin contains only hardness minerals and has to be regenerated
- The control valve monitors water usage and determines when to regenerate
- The resin is backwashed to rince away impurities
- A strong brine solution is then drawn through the bed of hardness ions and exchanged for sodium ions
- The hardness ions are then rinsed out to the drain
- The softener is once again ready to soften
Benefits of a Water Conditioning System
Our goal to our customers is to provide them with the best quality products, to give them the best water possible, and extend its benefits throughout your whole home. Filtropur wishes to provide your family and household with the most dependable and durable lineup of water conditioning products possible. We strive to provide our customers with the best treated indoor drinking water every time; for years to come.
- Save up to 75% on the cost of cleaning products when you no longer have to clean up the spots and residue hard water can leave behind on your sinks, tubs, faucets, and dishware.
- Hard water is tough on your water heater and water utilizing appliances. Save your appliances and replace them less. Lower your electric bill by up to 30% with the saved energy it would take to normally heat up your hard water and bypass the expensive maintenance costs all with one system.
- Use less water all around your home when the amount of water needed to regenerate our products with each conditioning cycle is less than our competition.
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Check out our full lineup of budget-friendly Water Conditioning Systems that can help you save money all across your home.