Water Treatment FAQs

They?re inexpensive and easy to install. But did you know that at the tap filtration devices can often be found sleeping on the job? Over time, some filters may lose their ability to remove dangerous contaminants and may end up allowing them into your drinking water. Sometimes, there?s no telling how or when these filters will stop protecting you and your family. And if you can?t be certain that the filter isn?t always doing its job by providing you with cleaner, healthier water, why even have the ugly, eyesore in your kitchen?

An ineffective at-the-tap filtration system may not remove hazardous contaminants from your family?s drinking water! For example, the chemical chlorine is present in municipal water supplies, because it KILLS bacteria. But what else does it kill? Breakthrough research is linking more health problems, such as heart attacks and cancer, to excessive exposure to chlorine. The list of other contaminates that could be sneaking by your at-the-tap filtration system—if it happens to be fast asleep with an ineffective, unchanged filter—can be staggering. Instead of the ineffective system doing its job, your body now is acting like the filter!

On top of that, sometimes faulty filters provide a breeding ground for bacteria that could be flushed into the next glass of water you fill! So a non-functioning filtration device can actually introduce additional contaminants into the drinking water you consume!

Learn how healthy your water source is today! As your local Green Screened™ plumber, we’re concerned about the quality of your drinking water, and the effectiveness of any filter your home may have. You deserve to know all the options for providing your family with healthier drinking water.

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Despite the treatment that just about all drinking water gets at the municipal level, there are plenty of ways that contaminants can infiltrate your home water supply. The only way to know if they’re there and what they are is to have your water tested by a professional. Testing will identify the presence of things like excess minerals, chemicals and bacterial agents.

Once testing is done, you’re in a much better position to determine what type of water treatment system you need for your home. If your water is too hard, you’ll want a system to soften it. If there are excess chemicals in the water, filters can be put in place to remove them. And if it’s bacterial agents you have the biggest problem with, UV antibacterial lights can be installed to neutralize them on contact.

Your water is hard if there is an excess of minerals in it, most commonly calcium and magnesium. These minerals are not inherently harmful, but when their concentration in your water supply is too high, they can do a lot of damage to your pipes and appliances. They can also make your water taste bad.

Once you know you have hard water, however, it’s quite easy to remedy the situation. There are plenty of great water softening systems on the market and your water treatment technician can help you determine which one is appropriately calibrated and sized for your home and water needs.

Just like any other piece of equipment in your home, your water treatment system can’t continue to work properly forever. Often when it stops working effectively, you’ll have very few warning signs that a problem exists. So the best way to ensure that your system is always doing exactly what you need it to do is to keep up with regular maintenance visits from a professional.

During these visits, a technician or plumber will thoroughly inspect your entire system to find any problems and clean out whatever sediment and debris may have built up over time. They’ll also change or clean all of your filters. With this attention, your water treatment system should have no trouble keeping your water safe and clean, and you won’t have to worry about how well it’s working from one month to the next.

While both water filtration and softening remove certain elements from your home water supply, they go about it in very different ways. Water softening equipment makes use of ion exchange to get excess calcium and magnesium out of your water. In the process, water softeners typically insert sodium ions in place of the unwanted minerals.

Water filters, on the other hand, actually catch and absorb particles floating in your water. These particles are generally things like organic debris and iron, and once they are trapped in the filter, the remainder of the water can continue on, free of contamination.

Bacterial contaminants can be especially tricky to get out of your home water supply. Because of this, installing UV antibacterial lights after your main filtration device is essential. These lights work because the bacteria absorb the UV–C radiation as they pass by the light. This radiation scrambles the DNA inside each microbe and ends their ability to reproduce. Once they can no longer reproduce, bacteria are not a threat to the health and safety of your family.