The Importance of Home Water Filtration and Purification

When you turn the faucet on your kitchen or bathroom sink, you anticipate clean, safe water to flow out. But even if your water seems clear, it might still carry toxic chemicals that present a risk to your family’s health and safety. Plenty of people do not like the taste of tainted tap water and recognize the risk of drinking it. That’s why half of all American families keep either a home water treatment system (32 percent) or bottled water (18 percent) to make sure they have healthy drinking water nearby. 

If you want to safeguard your family’s health, you may first consider going the bottled water route. But of course, this gets expensive almost immediately. Additionally, plastic water bottles that aren’t recycled end up polluting the world’s waterways, causing harm to the environment and wiping out marine life. 

Having a whole-house water filtration system is more cost-effective and cleaner for the environment than buying bottled water. It will also supply healthier water more easily because you can get it straight from the tap. What’s more, whole-house systems supply purified water to your showers, tubs and plumbing appliances, enabling you to make the most of the benefits whereveryou use water at home. 

Before installing a whole-house water filter, learn what’s in your drinking water and how a Filtermax™ Superior Chemical Removal Filter can clear out hazardous contaminants. Then, get in touch with Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing to help you choose and install the best water filter for you. 

What’s in Your Drinking Water? 

Water quality varies by location, but some of the most common contaminants include: 

• Heavy metals 
• Chlorine 
• Lead 
• Industrial chemicals 
• Disinfection byproducts (DBPs) 

Learn what may be in your water supply by entering your ZIP Code into the Environmental Working Group’s drinking water quality database. EWG files show that over 80 percent of utility water supplies in North America tested positive for carcinogenic chemicals, demonstrating that legal water quality levels are not necessarily safe. 

Think About Installing a Filtermax Water Filtration System 

The Filtermax Superior Chemical Removal Filter traps dirt, debris and harmful chemicals from your faucets, supplying you and your family with safe, sparkling water to enjoy. Here are the benefits of this system: 

• Sediment filtration: Cloudiness is a sure sign of sediment in your drinking water. Comprised of silt, sand, rust or clay, sediment is naturally occurring and increases in the water main soon after heavy rains. While generally harmless, sediment will make your drinking water appear and taste unpleasant. Filtermax offers sediment filtration to filter out solids from your drinking water. 
• Chlorine removal: Chlorine is crucial to clean drinking water in urban environments like cities. However, this disinfectant creates harmful chemical byproducts when it meets naturally occurring organic and inorganic substances in the water. A few DPBs, like trihalomethanes (THMs), are shown to cause cancer. Filtermax removes these carcinogens to keep your family healthy. 

• Safer, cleaner, better-tasting water: Ensuring safe tap water is the objective of adding putting in any water filtration equipment. Besides being cleaner for your family to drink, filtered water also smells, tastes and looks better. No more constant metallic or musty scents. No more earthy or chlorine flavor. No more murky water swirling around your cup. Just clean-tasting, odorless, crystal-clear water. 
• Filtered water to every tap: Harmful chemicals don’t just threaten you when ingested—they also absorb into your skin when you shower and stick to your clothing and dishes when you wash them. That’s why a whole-house filtration system is so worthwhile because it provides clean water from every tap. 
• No operating costs or wasted water: Some whole-house filtration systems add to your electric bills. Others add to your water bills with automatic backwashing and flushing. Filtermax proves that safe, clean water doesn’t have to come with bigger utility costs. 
• Flow-through distributor: Depending on your plumbing system’s setup, you could need an upflow or downflow water filter. The Filtermax™ flow-through distributor contains both designs to satisfy your needs. 
• 20-year manufacturer warranty: This is one of the strongest warranties in the water treatment equipment industry! With this coverage, you know your investment will continue providing clean, quality drinking water for a long, long time. 

Install a Whole-House Water Filter in Your Home

At Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing, we install different types of water filtration systems from Excalibur, like the Filtermax Superior Chemical Removal Filter. Whether you’re trying to scale back water hardness, filter out bacteria or take care of dangerous chemicals, you’ll find the right product for you from Excalibur. Installation is fast, easy and supported by our 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. Contact your local Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing office for help picking out a water filtration system that suits your needs and budget.