A large majority of the contaminants that affect your home’s water quality are tiny and invisible to the human eye. Sediment, however, is one...
How Can Water Softener Resin Beds Go Bad and When Do They Need to be Replaced?
Water softeners do not require a whole lot of your attention. For the most part, they operate in the background while you enjoy the fruits of their...
How Can You Benefit From Filtering Your Shower Water?
When many people think about their homes’ water quality, they only consider the water that they drink. But did you know that quality is also...
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...
How Does Copper Get into Tap Water and How Can You Remove It?
Many of the most common tap water contaminants come from source water supplies (lakes, rivers, etc.) or are introduced into the water as it is...
Sources of Water Contamination: How Contaminants are introduced as Water Travels to Your Home
Tap water has to travel quite a distance in order to get from its source to your home. By the time water comes out of your faucets, it has been...
How Does E. coli Contaminate Drinking Water and How Can You Avoid It?
It seems like every day there is a town somewhere in the country that issues a boil-water alert due to E. coli contamination of tap water. A quick...
How Does Hard Water Affect the Faucets in Your Pennsylvania or New Jersey Home?
Hard water can be very problematic in your home, and it tends to cause the biggest issues on the surfaces that your tap water comes into most...
How the Source of Your Home’s Tap Water Can Affect Its Quality
There are many different ways that tap water can get contaminated. As a result, water quality issues can vary greatly from city to city and even...
How to Remove Limescale from your Pennsylvania or New Jersey Home
Limescale is a crusty, hard and white substance that builds up on your home’s plumbing fixtures and appliances due to regular contact with hard...