Water Treatment and Water Conditioning

The water in West Michigan is hard. Kalamazoo municipal water is pumped from wells in the local aquifer. It is rated at approximately 22 grains of hardness per gallon. Grand Rapids municipal water is brought from Lake Michigan and has a range of hardness between 9 and 11 grains. Both of these levels of hardness will destroy the water-using appliances in your home, including your wash machine, dish washer, water heater and fixtures. Check out the damage done by hard water to these appliances. For more detailed information on how exactly these damages occur, read hard water is hard on appliances.

Hardness is, in reality, dissolved rock and specifically limestone. As water slowly filters or ‘percolates’ from the surface of the earth into the aquifers below ground, it dissolves some limestone. It is also common to have rust, or iron along with hardness. This iron and limestone, or hardness, wreaks havoc on your home and appliances. It spots glasses, kills the effectiveness of soap, dries out your skin, ruins water heaters and lowers our quality of life in West Michigan.

A water softener, also called a water conditioner will solve your hard water problem. You can buy cheap ones from big box stores, however, we provide high quality, well built systems you can rent or purchase at a low cost. In particular, we often recommend Kinetico water softeners for their simplicity, effectiveness, and electric-free operation.

Whatever the case, we size it for you, based on your specific conditions, family size, water quality, iron levels and TDS. We provide a necessary service of testing you water and doing a water system audit of your home. This is absolutely free and will give the critical information required for the selection and setup of a softening system.

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