Don't be fooled by advertising or a fancy box - when you buy a filter at a home center, mass merchandiser, or drug store, you are getting a mass produced item that only works for some water problems and makes you purchase new filters every month or so. Sometimes the fancy box costs more than what's inside it!
We believe it's best to change filters yearly. This costs only pennies per day and is recommended for you and your family's health.
At www.santeforhealth.com we receive a number of calls each day requesting information about Home Water Treatment Systems. These calls are from all over; people with wells, people with city water and people with private water companies.
There are four main types of whole-house water treatment systems: soft water, reverse osmosis, carbon filter and KDF filter.
The salt water softening system is well known and misunderstood; not only by homeowners, but by the companies who sell them. With well water a water softener is used to remove iron and soften the water. Many people selling these unit neglect to inform the purchaser that they might need a filter system along side the water softener. This is why we require well owners to have a water test done by a major test lab like National Testing Laboratories, Ltd. 800-458-3330 before they purchase a system.
Some people feel that using a water softener is bad because the high level of sodium content. Two things you should know:
Many people who purchase a soft water system add a reverse osmosis “RO” system to remove impurities from their drinking water. While it is possible to make your whole house RO purified, it’s very expensive and not particularly practical. The typical RO unit wastes more water than it recovers.
Many people use a PUR® or Britta® charcoal filter which makes your water look and smell good, but needs filter changing often and is does not remove the impurities, iron and bacteria that other type systems can remove.
Patented KDF process media are 100 percent recyclable and contain no chemical additives. Hospitals, restaurants, municipal water treatment facilities, and homes rely on KDF process media to safely reduce or remove chlorine, iron, hydrogen sulfide, heavy metals, and bacteria from their water. Alarger version of this system is made for whole house systems.
We offer this as a little primer on water systems. Please call us at 1-800-398-6735 with any questions.