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CARBON “SPRINKLING” IN WATER SOFTENERS

You should never buy a water softener that has carbon in the same tank as the water softener regardless of the convincing slick sales pitches these people give you. This would include all carbons such as Activated Carbon (GAC), KDF Carbons including both KDF55 and KDF 85, coconut carbons or any other carbon. In fact you should normally not add anything other than softener resin to a water softener. Even if the carbon is placed at the bottom of the tank, it will mix into the softener resin when the unit regenerates or cleans itself. Once it mixes into the softener mineral bed there is effectively no way to remove it again. The carbon gets used up and once it has become depleted it can actually “dump” organics and other contaminants back into the water. And ALL carbon must be replaced. Buyers beware of companies who say they don’t need replacing. To remove that carbon you would have to empty the ENTIRE tank of minerals and then pick out the black specs. Can you imagine the cost of that service call? Many unscrupulous companies simply take out some of the perfectly good minerals off of the top and then add more carbon. Of course now you have fewer minerals to soften which means salt usage starts increasing dramatically. Most of these companies also sell salt. That is one heck of a “Coinky-dink” is it not? We know that when properly applied, our customers say they average adding salt to their water softeners about once per year. Water Softeners are made to soften; period. If you need to remove chlorine and chemicals from the water you should use a separate carbon tank and it should have a backwash feature to clean itself. A good example of state of the art technology in this regard is our “Dual Purpose" softener/conditioner.

We take a full sized softener and then we stack another full sized tank on top and fill it with activated carbon (or anything else we may need to). When one tanks cleans itself the other one gets cleaned as well with the same water making it FAR MORE efficient than using a softener and backwashing carbon tank separately. 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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