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Water Treatment

Hard water is one of the biggest issues you find in any central Texas water supply, municipality or well water. Hard water has one of the biggest negative effects on your water system.

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All that white, chalky build up, you see wine glasses, or faucets is not doing good inside your appliances. It’s basically calcium and magnesium. It's minerals that are present anyway. You need them in your human body, you don't necessarily need them building up on the edge of your faucet or covering your dishes..

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Insulation of water sulfur will remove magnesium and calcium carbonate, which is basically what makes up hard water. It's all the chalky stuff you see everywhere, there are smart alternatives. If you don't like the maintenance of a water softener, you don't like to have to add salt. They have some other technologies that are they've really gotten good over the last few years that basically work on radio frequencies, that just manipulate the molecular structure. Change their chain, yeah, change their basically, they change the molecular structure so it doesn't adhere to anything. It doesn't remove it, but it doesn't stick to anything. Is it like ionized do they ionize it? I don't know exactly how they I mean, it's basically just radio frequencies. They wrap this wire. It shoots a signal through their radio frequencies, and it changes it from cleaning to everything to just washing it right now they have technology now that will actually remove any existing build up, like a water softener will keep any from keeping it from it'll remove it and get them going through. But it's not going to do anything to remove build up that's already in your 30 year old house. And, yeah, if you ever cut, cut into a waterline on a on a house that's 20 years old or 40 years old, that one inch diameter pipe now is about the size of your pinky because it's got, it's caked with that much, that much hard water around.

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Well, something like a like a float tech device, I have one. I have a water softener in my house. I have a whole house carbon filter. We can take a water sample and send it to the lab, and they can custom build water treatment for your particular water chemistry. So if you've got heavy metals in your water, or you've got a hydrogen sulfate coming out of your well, they'll add components to mitigate the effects of those particular minerals.

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Tell me about the size and the shape, and when you install it, where it goes and, like, what does it look like?

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It looks like a small water heater. It looks like it says that, that that CO2 can back there, gets the wall that they get for carbonation. So the water cylinder, the ones we use are the tall, skinny cylinders that look like that's full of media. And then on the side there's a salt tank called a brine tank, so basically runs through there. But also have a whole house filter, whole house carbon filter, water before it goes into before it goes into the software, it goes into a whole house carbon filter, which filters all the heavy metals, all the chlorine they put into your water to kill any bacteria or impurities that they want to disinfect, basically. So it runs through that, and then it comes out of that. It goes from a water softener, and then that removes the, basically the calcium and magnesium carbonate. So out of that, then I go into a sediment filter, which removes any small, five micron filter that removes anything that, you know, any impurities other than basically any any particulate, any particles that are larger than five microns get filtered out. Then I go out of that. I go into a UV light, and I don't kill any bacteria, any cytosporidium, any any impurities that they say you need to boil your water for. I get I run it through a UV filter that catches all that. That is a treat. Yeah. So it looks kind of like a lab with my garage, where you run through all that equipment, and I go out of that, and it gives me filter perfect water. And then I've got reverse osmosis just for my drinking.

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The quality of water makes a huge difference in your plumbing. I mean, treat your plumbing, treat the water, and you'll have less issues. If you got good quality water and your stuff's not that old, your water pressure is good. You're not going to have organic plumbing issues. We have far fewer. It’s most people's largest investment. Why wouldn't you want to prevent that? Who likes living in a hotel? You know why the construction companies repairing a busted water line? Because you didn't fix the 90 pounds of pressure you had coming into your house.

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Back then, 10 years ago, for $600 investment, relatively instant hot water in every fixture in your house. I mean, for less of that pump uses less, it uses less energy than her using a blow dryer. Then you can set it on a timer, and you can get smart circulating pumps that learn your habits over time and your water usage patterns. Now you wake up at two in the morning. It may take a little bit longer showered into the morning for the first time that learned system.

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There's, there's basically four types of water treatment that we recommend regularly, whole house, carbon filtration, that we can basically take a water sample, send it to a lab, figure out what's in your water, and we treat exclusively for those issues that you have in your water.

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The second is a water softener, which is going to remove any, you know, calcium magnesium carbonate that you have in your water. That's all the chalky white stuff that nobody likes to see on their showers or their dishes, and it'll cut your uses of detergent and soap and a half, because your water lather is much better. If your daughters complain about their brushing their hair, have their shower, put on a water softener and see how better, how much better that is in your life. Complaints, mostly it's a game changer. It's a game changer for not an air for sure. And then sediment filters, just removing sediment out of the water. And there's a lot of different things that you know, these new this new radio frequency flow tech. I actually have one in my pool house because it's not plumb for a softener in my little pool house out back, so I put in a flow Tech.

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Yeah, the flow tech won't remove it doesn't remove the calcium. The flow tech is the low tech radio frequency. Radio Frequency, that just installs your water heater. You hook it up to the hot and cold lines on your water heater, plug it in, and it does away with it. Your hard water no longer sticks. You'll still stand there with wipe off. Really interesting. Yeah, I have one in my pool house, just because my water ice maker got such little lines in that ice maker, they're gonna clog up. Yeah, it's done. So I put that on there. Yeah, I put that earlier, and it's, don't have any issues.

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I will tell you a quick story about that. As we install the flow tech on a customer their shower just covered in hard water. Never wipe the shower. But we came back to that house a year later, and the only spot on that shower that was was clean, was where the shower head sprays on that glass every day, and it took one spot.

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