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…
The Many Benefits of Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water
There are many different types of water filtration systems available for filtering your drinking water. They start as simple as a water pitcher filter and can be as advanced as a whole house system that filters all of the water in your home. Perhaps the most effective type of filtration system for purifying your drinking…
What are the Effects of Farming on Well Water in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Homes?
One of the problems with well water is that its quality can be easily influenced by the location of the well. Since homes with well water tend to be in rural areas, many private wells are located near farms that grow food and/or raise livestock. There are a number of contaminants that are produced by…
Why Does My Drinking Water Smell Like Chlorine?
Most people know chlorine as the chemical that’s used to treat the water in swimming pools and hot tubs. But did you know that the very same chemical is used to treat our drinking water as well? In some homes, you might not even notice chlorine in your drinking water. In other homes, the water…
Do You Need Both a Water Softener and a Water Filtration System in Your NJ or PA Home?
If you’re relatively new to the world of water treatment, you might not be clear about the differences between water filtration systems and water softeners. Both types of systems will improve the quality of your tap water, but they do so in different ways. So do you need both a water softener and a whole…
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…