Q. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NATURAL FILTRATION WATER SYSTEM AND A SALT OR POTASSIUM SOFT WATER SYSTEM? A. The difference between the Natural Filtration System and a salt-based system is that our filter system does not require any salt, chemicals, or maintenance. The disadvantages of a salt or potassium based system, is that it addresses only one problem, and that is the hardness of the water, it does not filter the water. Salt-based systems remove calcium and magnesium and exchange them for sodium chloride or potassium chloride. The result is that there is salt throughout the house, which you have to shower and bathe with, as well as the additives the city puts in the water. Drinking the salt water is not recommended, so a reverse osmosis unit is usually installed to remove salt. A salt system requires lugging bags of salt or potassium and/or having an exchange unit that requires service people to enter your property on a regular basis. Another disadvantage that we hear from our customers, who have had salt systems, that there water heaters build up large amount of sediment do to the salt in the water system. Q. WHAT KIND OF MAINTENANCE DOES IT REQUIRE? A. Our filters require ZERO MAINTENANCE Q. WHAT DOES THE CONTROL VALVE DO? A. The time clock control valve sets the time for the five-cycle regeneration cycle. Plus with an external bypass, you will have continuous water. The regeneration cycles flush the system, clean the media, and rebed the media. Q. WHERE DOES THE UNIT GET INSTALLED? A. Most units are installed close to the main water supply to the house to ensure the entire house is serviced. The filter can also be buried at the same location. Q. HOW MUCH WATER IS USED FOR THE WEEKLY REGENERATION? A. Not much water is used only 5-25 gallons and we can drain to your flowerbed or drain line. Q. DO I NEED A REVERSE OSMOSIS UNIT? A. No, our whole house system eliminates the need for any reverse osmosis unit, because there is no salt to remove. Q. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF NATURAL FILTRATION WATER SYSTEM WHOLE HOUSE SYSTEM? A No salt purchases. No maintenance costs. No plastic water bottle purchases or waste. Longer life for your appliances (dishwasher, washing machine, water heater, etc) Extended life of your plumbing fixtures, no more calcium build up on faucets, showers, etc. No water loss from reverse osmosis unit (they waste 2 to 5 gallons for every gallon they make) No filter change for 10-15 years. No monthly charge. Q. HOW LONG DOES THE FILTER TAKE TO INSTALL? A. Most filters will take an average of 3-5 hours it depends on the location you choose. Q. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN TO CHANGE THE FILTER? A. The industry standard is that 1 cubic ft. (of activated carbon) will effectively filter 1 million gallons of water. Our was-100 has 1 cubic ft. of carbon. The average family of four uses about 70 thousand gallons of water per year, excluding irrigation. This means that in 10 years 700,000 gallons of water would be used, and in 20 years 1.4 million. Since the WQAS-100 will filter approx. 1.5 gallons, it would take over 20 years before the filter would need to be flushed drained and then we would remove the media and replace it with all new media. Q. WHAT DOES THE WATER TASTE LIKE? A. Our water tastes like mountain spring water, because the minerals are in the water, which gives it a very clean and flavorful taste. In fact, many bottled water companies are adding minerals to their water to make it taste better. Q. HOW DO I KNOW WHAT SIZE UNIT TO ORDER? A. It depends on the size of your house, water main, and number of bathrooms. |
