The Amazing Capabilities Of Our Water Filtration Systems | Oak Ridge, TN
Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
Protecting your plumbing, improving your drinking water quality, and helping you enjoy showers, baths, and clean clothes are a few of the ways that water filtration systems from My Professional Plumber can help. Here in Oak Ridge, the water supply has improved considerably over the decades since more troubled times, but there are significant advantages to taking command of your home’s water quality. There are water softener systems to remove minerals that are drinkable, but leave sediment in your appliances and promote corrosion. Water purification systems use activated carbon and other filtration methods to target specific concerns. Reverse osmosis works hard to remove as much as possible from your water, providing great drinkable water, protecting your plumbing, and even offering a substitute for bottled water right from your taps.
Levels of Water Quality Improvement
Hard water is the first level of water quality improvement, using water softener systems to address this problem by itself. Our local water has some degree of dissolved minerals that determine hardness, though it’s not as bad as some other states! Typical signs of hard water include sediment in your coffee maker that also eventually accumulates and damages your water heater and other appliances. Pipe corrosion is also a consequence of hard water, although plastic pipes of certain types are affected by chlorine compounds in the water instead. You may also see stains in your tub and sinks, itchy skin after showers, and clothes that are never as soft as you’d like. A step up is activated carbon and other water filtration systems that selectively remove contaminants from the water. Ultimately, reverse osmosis systems provide the most exacting contaminant removal, requiring more maintenance. Each kind of system requires some kind of supplies, from salt and other basic materials for water softeners, to activated carbon for purification systems, and membranes for reverse osmosis.
Taking Control of Your Water
A water quality test is a good starting point when selecting water filtration systems. This can reveal contaminants in your water and their concentrations, and allow you to choose filtration methods that address your concerns. In some cases, your family members may have specific sensitivities that will benefit from reducing certain contaminant levels in your water, which our filtration systems can help with. You get to choose the water you drink, shower and bathe in, wash your clothes with, and cook with.
What’s in My Water?
Water treatment chemicals such as chlorine compounds, VOCs or volatile organic compounds, various minerals, even trace amounts of arsenic and other elements are still present in water coming into your home. In cases where there are disruptions in the water mains such as breaks or use of high-volume fire hydrant use, you may receive a “boil water notice” that indicates additional contaminants may have gotten into the supply. These typically enter because the water pressure is low, allowing outside water to seep in. When surface water is the source of the public water supply, or sometimes even with well water, agricultural chemicals and pesticides may also be present in the water. With water filtration systems, you have more control over what’s in your home’s water.
You Can Do More With Low-Volume Filtration
The public water supply in Oak Ridge has improved significantly over recent decades, but high-volume water treatment plants can’t perform all the processing that home-based water filtration systems do. It’s just a practical matter. In fact, home-based systems are used to remove some of the disinfecting chemicals such as chlorine and other artifacts of large-scale water treatment that many people would rather not drink. While it’s wonderful to have good water available in such quantities for the public, it’s great to have the option to add additional stages of purification with residential water filtration systems.
Reverse Osmosis Is Amazing
Reverse osmosis, or RO, uses a semipermeable membrane to separate contaminants from the water, with up to 99 percent filtration. It’s the method used for some bottled water, even for medical and laboratory water supplies. Rather than targeting contaminants specifically, reverse osmosis simply enables water to pass through, leaving everything else behind. It provides high-quality drinking water from all your faucets, water that’s also great for your pets’ drinking water and, with remineralization, even makes excellent aquarium water. With our water filtration systems, we make more of your lifestyle enjoyable and easy since you don’t have to worry about your home’s water!
Installation and Operation Is Easy
At My Professional Plumber, we take good care of your plumbing including water filtration systems, ensuring that they’re running smoothly with regular maintenance services. All you have to do is relax and turn the tap to enjoy the great water they produce. Depending on the type of system you select, you can have up to a decade or even two decades of service, or more. We’ll provide the details and our recommendations for systems that will meet your needs and water quality issues, and perform a professional installation by connecting it into your home’s water supply line. From that point on, your whole home will be served with water that you can enjoy and not worry about. One additional benefit most homeowners enjoy with great water from their taps is eliminating bottled water runs to the store and recycling trips later on. You’ll have great water you can drink now!
Fresh, purified water in your home from one of our My Professional Plumber water filtration systems removes contaminants and also the doubt you have these days about the water you drink. You can choose the level of filtration you get, and have our water quality experts keep it running smoothly from year to year. It’s just one of many ways we help you live a healthy lifestyle and keep your home’s plumbing in great shape. Call today to find out more about great tap water for your home!
See our most recent blog on this topic here.
Photo By JLco – Julia Amaral at istock