It’s a well-known fact that water softeners have many great benefits. They protect your plumbing system from damage, improve your water heater’s efficiency, eliminate limescale, help improve your skin and more. Unfortunately, there are a few unsubstantiated rumors about water softeners that can misinform homeowners about the value of installing softeners in their homes. Today…
Is a Whole Water House Filtration System Right for Me? Answer These Questions to Find out!
When you’re choosing a water filtration system for your home, one decision that you have to make is where you want your water filtered. Whereas a point-of-use filter will purify water at a single tap right before water leaves the faucet, a whole house filtration system will filter your water as soon as it enters…
What is an Activated Carbon Water Filter?
There are all kinds of different contaminants in tap water, and often times that means that multiple filtration techniques are needed to take care of all of them. One of the most popular of those techniques is activated carbon. Today we’re going to talk about what an activated carbon water filter is and what role…
Does Your City Disinfect Water with Chloramine? Here’s Why You Should Consider Removing It
For many years, chlorine was the disinfectant that was most commonly used by water treatment plants to treat drinking water supplies. Chlorine is extremely effective at killing dangerous pathogens and other contaminants that could otherwise cause waterborne illnesses. But in recent years, many cities have been switching to chloramine as their primary disinfectant. And like…
What Sets the Hague WaterMax Apart From Conventional Water Softeners?
If you’ve compared the features of any of the conventional water softeners on the market, you might think that there isn’t much difference from one product to the next. The Hague WaterMax, however, is in a category of its own. It’s also the number one water softener that we recommend to our customers, and today…
Bacteria in Tap Water: How Does it Get There and How Can Your Avoid It?
It might come as a surprise that bacteria is a concern for tap water. After all, we wash our hands in tap water with the intention of avoiding bacteria in the first place! As it turns out, however, bacteria can show up in many different forms in public and private water supplies. Today we’re going…
How Will Your Bathrooms Benefit from Installing a Water Softener?
If you consider all the rooms in your home where water is used in one way or another, your bathrooms are where it’s consumed the most. Whether you’re brushing your teeth, washing your hands, using the toilet or taking a shower, water is used for nearly everything you do in the bathroom. So if your…
Sodium Chloride vs. Potassium Chloride Regenerant: Which One is Right For Your Water Softener?
Although sodium chloride is the leading choice of regenerant for water softeners in Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, potassium chloride is another option of regenerant that is used in some specific situations. When you are choosing a new water softener for your home, you might be wondering which option is right for you and your…
How Do I Know if I Have Hard Water or Soft Water?
If you were given a glass of water and asked to determine whether the water was soft or hard, you might have a tough time doing it. That’s because water’s hardness isn’t made most apparent by the way that it looks, but rather by the effects that it has on your body and your home….