Why You Should Filter Your Water
Before It Enters Your Home!

Water filtration may be a foreign concept for some people. With all the bottled water nowadays, it can be easy just to go to your fridge and grab a bottle of water when you are thirsty. While you may feel better about not drinking tap water, what about when you cook, bathe, or clean around your house?

Having a POE (Point of Entry) water filtration system (filters the water before it enters your home) has many benefits, not only for you but for your home as well. This means every faucet, shower head, or washing machine will be using clean, filtered water when in use. Depending on the filter, your home could be protected from hard water minerals that cause scale build-up and corroded pipes. The biologicals in the water (microbial cyst/bacteria) can be stopped by a sub-micron water filtration system as well since the biologicals are physically too big to fit through the size of the filter. Meaning your water would cleaner and safer than before throughout your home.

Knowing what is in your water can be the first step in determining what water filtration system is right for you and your home. Another thing to consider is if you have or want a water softener for your home. A water softener would treat the hard water minerals in your water, but it would do nothing about the chemicals, bacteria, or other contaminants. A whole-home water filtration system before a water softener could help prolong the life of the softener and keep your water cleaner and safer than before.

Without a water softener in your home, you can use a filter that utilizes polyphosphates as a hard water solution. Polyphosphates will sequester the hard water minerals so they cannot cause scale buildup and damage your expensive plumbing equipment and fixtures. Some people have described the water coming from a softener as having a ‘slimy’ feel to it. With polyphosphates and a filter that is certified to perform, since it is not going through an ionic exchange, the water entering your home will be safer for you and your home without that slimy feel.