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Carbon Problems

Carbon on private wells is the number one breeder of bacteria. Plus you have to replace it on a regular basis resulting in needless expensive service calls to pad their pockets. The only place for carbon is on “Chlorinated” city water supplies normally. There are a few rare instances where carbon may be acceptable; such as high arsenic or gasoline products in your well. Be sure to speak with one of our expert techs to see if carbon is appropriate, though it is rarely the answer. Buyers beware of companies who use carbon to simply remove chlorine or sulfur from water. This is your first indication you are dealing within a “Slick Willy”. Even the very best national name brand in home water treatment sale companies, who you think you should be able to trust, use this marginal and ridiculous tactic. Usually these same companies tell you that you need retention tanks for “Contact time”. That is never true unless you have harmful bacteria such as e-coli or coliform. And most of these companies will add a 40 gallon, 80 gallon or 120 gallon retention tanks and never tell you that you need a 120 gallon retention tank for every 6 gallons per minute of flow rate. Again that is ONLY for e-coli or coliform, not for iron bacteria, sulfur or other organic issues.

Carbon is normally fine for city water as long as some unscrupulous company has not convinced you to use KDF, coconut carbon or any other exotic carbon either alone or in conjunction with granular activated carbon (GAC) in the same tank. Buyers beware of such companies! NEVER mix carbons and other minerals in the SAME tank including softeners and pH or pH increasing minerals. If a company has told you that you need carbon or retention tanks for anything other than e-coli or coliform on well water you should call and speak with one of our techs to learn the PROPER application. On city water the best you can possibly do normally is carbon, softener and reverse osmosis. Anything else is usually a sales pitch to extract needless money from your pocketbook. Please don’t hesitate to give us a quick call for a quick evaluation of your issue. Keep in mind our technicians are not allowed to ask you to buy anything or pressure you in ANY way. They just answer your questions and give you great advice. We are the online leader for water treatment worldwide.

WARNING: When it comes to water treatment equipment you should NEVER do business with ANY company who does not have the same certifications as we do. It is just plain crazy. There are so many "Fly by night" companies out there that it should be the very FIRST rule in your decision making process. It is your first, and some times ONLY, line of defense. Just look at our home page to see our many appropriate certifications. You will find them all in the top third of the page.
 

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We carry water treatment equipment and water filter sizes ranging to 1,200,000 grain water softeners and water conditioners, as well as virtually every other type of water treatment system or water filter available for city water or private well water systems. Larger commercial water treatment systems are available too. If it exists and it works, we have the finest water treatment technology. We build every unit we sell to order, from scratch. Unlike most other in-home and online companies who have them in a warehouse collecting dust and going out of date sometime for years at a time. Every unit we sell is made from the very latest, up to date,  state of the art technology. We are the industry leaders for analyzing and and recommending the following water filtration systems: Water softeners, iron filters, sulfur filter systems, manganese filtration filters, bacteria removal, tannin removal, smell and odor treatment systems, water conditioners, rust filters and virtually all types of well water treatment and purification systems. If it exists and it works we have it or can build it. Premium Quality Equipment at Budget Prices, 7 days a week Budget Water USA.

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