Water Treatment
Improve Your Home With Water Treatment Services
Have you ever asked yourself what the quality of your water was? After all, there is so much more to “good water” than just good taste. Great water can make your household cleaner and healthier, your drinks more refreshing and your food more delicious. It can improve your complexion, extend the livelihood of your appliances, and can even save you money!
Answering these two questions you can know if you need a water treatment system. Do you still feel dirty when you get out of the shower? Does your hair feel dry after you wash it? The problem may not be the soap or detergents you are using. Your problem might be hard water which can be rectified by using a Westchester water softener. The term, "hard water," refers to water with a high mineral content.
The most common minerals that cause water hardness are calcium and magnesium. When these minerals end up in a Putnam and Westchester County household's water supply, household pipes become clogged and appliance efficiency is reduced.
Home water softener systems are machines that tap into the household water supply and filter water as it comes through to remove calcium and magnesium.
In our area , some of the most common water ailments are:
Hardness: Hard water is notorious for leaving water marks and streaks while cleaning and causing mineral scaling in pipes. This negatively impacts your household appliances and can reduce the efficiency of your water heater. Not only that, but it can leave your hair limp and skin dry.
High pH levels: Acidic water has corrosive characteristics and can wreak havoc on your plumbing system. It creates pinhole leaks in your pipes and can reduce the lifespan of your household systems (water heaters, boilers, appliances).
Sulphur: If sulfur bacteria have found their way into a home’s water supply it can cause an unpleasant rotten egg smell.
Bacteria: Disease carrying pathogens, microorganisms, and bacteria (e-coli & coliform, etc.) can make their way into your private water source causing health risks.
Once your water has been tested and any problems or impurities have been identified, our Water Quality Experts can recommend a full range of water treatment equipment to maintain or restore your home’s water quality. Our Hudson Valley water treatment offerings include:
Water Filtration
Water Softeners
Water Conditioners
Acid Neutralizers
Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water Systems
Ultra Violet (UV) Water Purification
Well Water Sanitizing (“Shocking”)
Water Filtration
Whole house water filtration systems offer homeowners the most comprehensive filtration option for your property, solving a wide range of issues affecting water quality, taste and appearance. By filtering water as it enters the home, you are able to remove problem contaminants such as chlorine, rust, sediment, silt and impurities from your entire water supply – ensuring your family’s water is clean to drink, cook with, and bath in.
Water Filtration systems can be used to improve the overall taste and clarity of your water, or to eliminate or remove specific contaminants. The types of contaminants present in your water will largely depend on your location and water source; either municipal or well. Whether you experience rust stains, odor, corroded plumbing or just a foul taste – there is a water filtration system that can solve your problem.
Water Softeners
The quality of your water will depend on where you live and whether it is supplied from a private well or local municipality. While both sources are known to contain hardness minerals, well water in particular is known for being hard.
Minerals in water are what makes certain water considered “hard.” The most common minerals found in water are calcium and magnesium. Typically, groundwater will dissolve rock like limestone, or metals, like iron and the remnants travel with the water until it is in your home.
These dissolved solids can cause scaly buildup in your home – on dishes, pipes, and the heating elements of your appliances. Soap scum and clogged, corroded plumbing are often the negative result of hard water.
Negative Effects of Hard Water
While hard water is not a health hazard, it can be a nuisance and wreak havoc in your home. Scale from hard water can clog plumbing and damage your water-consuming appliances. Some of the most common issues associated with hard water include:
Restricted water flow and poor water pressure
Diminished lifespan & efficiency of water-using appliances
White film and spots on glasses and dishes
Film and scale on tile and bath/kitchen fixtures
Difficulty cleaning clothes – clothes appear dingy & wear out faster
Skin irritation issues – dryness & itchiness
Dull & limp hair after washing
Benefits of Installing a Water Softener
Water softeners remove hard minerals allowing you to clean your home and laundry with greater ease, and extend the lifespan of your water-using appliances. By removing damaging hardness minerals and other substances, you also remove the headache that comes with those types of problems. With softened water, you’ll enjoy:
Cleaner clothing
Cleaner feeling skin and hair
Better tasting water
Increased water pressure
Cleaner dishes
Increased appliance performance
Increased life of your plumbing fixtures and appliances
Acid Neutralizer
An acid neutralizer system consists of a tank filled with calcium carbonate. As the acidic water passes through the bed of calcium, it safely and effectively corrects the pH level to neutral. Once neutral, your water will no longer dissolve copper from your pipes, damage fixtures and leave stains.
To raise the pH of acidic water, acid neutralizers employ calcite, a media very rich in calcium. Calcium and magnesium are the two ions that lead to water hardness. As the calcite dissolves in the water, the corrosive acidity is reduced, but the hardness of the water does increase.
Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water Systems
If you are like many Americans who spend thousands of dollars annually purchasing bottled or filtered water because you are worried about the quality of your water or simply don’t like the taste, a reverse osmosis system may a prudent investment.
Designed to transform your tap water, R/O systems provide your family with fresh, pristine, and healthy water. Not only does R/O water taste better (better than bottled!), but the purification process drastically reduces unwanted contaminants – meaning it’s healthier too.
Reverse Osmosis systems are tested and certified to reduce some of the following pesky contaminants:
Lead
Arsenic
Copper
Chromium
Selenium
Fluoride
Radium
Barium
And more…
Ultra Violet (UV) Water Purification
UV Systems work by utilizing ultraviolet rays to attack and disrupt the DNA of bacteria and viruses. Once the microorganisms’ DNA is damaged, it cannot function or reproduce – or cause you any harm.
UV systems offer many advantages for homeowners to help protect their water supply. As UV purification is a physical process and not chemical, it does not use any harmful chemical disinfectants. There are some microorganisms that are resistant to chemical disinfectants such as chlorine and are only able to be eliminated through UV treatment. Not only that, but UV system are better for the environment.
Service Areas
North Salem, NY -- Bronxville, NY
Yonkers, NY -- Tuckahoe, NY -- Mount Vernon, NY
Ossining, NY -- Briarcliff Manor, NY -- Millwood, NY
South Salem, NY -- Croton Falls, NY -- Purdys, NY
Croton On Hudson, NY -- Cortlandt Manor, NY
Goldens Bridge, NY
Somers, NY -- Peekskill, NY -- Eastchester, NY
Katonah, NY -- Cross River, NY -- Larchmont, NY
New Rochelle, NY -- Port Chester, NY
Pelham, NY -- White Plains, NY
Harrison, NY -- Hastings on Hudson,NY
Elmsford, NY -- Hawthorne, NY -- Irvington, NY
Thornwood, NY -- Mamaroneck, NY -- Greenburgh, NY
Tarrytown, NY -- Mount Kisco, NY
Ardsley, NY -- Armonk, NY -- Bedford, NY
Buchanan, NY -- Chappaqua, NY -- Dobbs Ferry, NY
Hartsdale, NY -- Mount Pleasant, NY -- Somers, NY
Pleasantville, NY -- Buchanan, NY -- North Castle, NY
Rye Brook, NY -- Rye, NY -- Scarsdale, NY
Sleepy Hollow, NY -- Valhalla, NY
Yorktown, NY -- Pound Ridge, NY
Yorktown Heights, NY -- Lewisboro, NY
and more.