The Importance of Home Water Filtration and Purification

When you run the faucet on your kitchen or bathroom sink, you expect clean, healthy water to flow out. But even if your water seems clear, it may still contain toxic chemicals that pose a threat to your family’s health and safety. Plenty of people don’t like the taste of polluted tap water and grasp the risks of drinking it. That’s why half of all American homes have either a home water treatment system (32 percent) or bottled water (18 percent) to make sure they have clean drinking water on hand. 

If you want to ensure your family’s well-being, you may first consider continuing the bottled water route. Unfortunately, this gets expensive fast. In addition, plastic water bottles that aren’t recycled end up polluting the world’s waterways, harming the environment and killing marine life. 

Installing a whole-house water filtration system is more cost-efficient and better for the environment than using so much bottled water. It will also provide healthier water more conveniently because you can get it straight from the tap. In addition, whole-house systems supply purified water to your showers, tubs and plumbing fixtures, allowing you to make the most of the benefits whereveryou use water at home. 

Before putting in a whole-house water filtration system, find out what’s in your drinking water and how a Filtermax™ Superior Chemical Removal Filter can clear out hazardous contaminants. Then, get in touch with Norrell Service Experts to help you find and install the right water filter for you. 

What’s in Your Drinking Water? 

Water quality may differ by location, but a few of the most common contaminants are: 

• Heavy metals 
• Chlorine 
• Lead 
• Industrial chemicals 
• Disinfection byproducts (DBPs) 

Learn what could be in your home’s tap water by entering your ZIP Code into the Environmental Working Group’s drinking water quality database. EWG records show that greater than 80 percent of utility water supplies in North America at one point tested positive for carcinogenic chemicals, demonstrating that legal water quality levels may not be necessarily safe. 

Consider Installing a Filtermax Water Filtration System 

The Filtermax Superior Chemical Removal Filter filters out dirt, debris and dangerous chemicals from your faucets, providing you and your family with safe, healthy water to drink. Here are the benefits of this system: 

• Sediment filtration: Cloudiness is a frequent sign of sediment in your drinking water. Comprised of silt, sand, rust or clay, sediment is naturally occurring and can accumulate in the water main soon after heavy rainfall. While typically harmless, sediment can make your drinking water appear and taste unpleasant. Filtermax provides sediment filtration to filter out solids from your drinking water. 
• Chlorine removal: Chlorine is vital to clean drinking water in urban environments like cities. Sadly, this disinfectant creates hazardous chemical byproducts when it reacts with naturally occurring organic and inorganic compounds in the water. Some DPBs, including trihalomethanes (THMs), are known to cause cancer. Filtermax eliminates these carcinogens to keep your family healthy. 

• Safer, cleaner, better-tasting water: Ensuring safe tap water is the objective of adding putting in any water filtration system. Besides being cleaner for your family to drink, filtered water also smells, tastes and looks better. No more constant metallic or musty smells. No more earthy or chlorine taste. No more murky water swirling around your kitchen sink. Just clean-tasting, odorless, crystal-clear water. 
• Filtered water for every tap: Toxic chemicals don’t just threaten you when ingested—they also absorb into your skin when you shower and cling to your clothing and dishes as you wash them. That’s why a whole-house filtration system is so helpful because it ensures clean water from every tap. 
• No operating expenses or water going to waste: Some whole-house filtration systems add to your electric bills. Others add to your water bills with automatic backwashing and flushing. Filtermax proves that healthy water doesn’t have to bring bigger utility costs. 
• Flow-through distributor: Based on your plumbing system’s configuration, you may need an upflow or downflow water filter. The Filtermax™ flow-through distributor contains both designs to satisfy your needs. 
• 20-year manufacturer warranty: This is one of the strongest warranties in the water treatment equipment industry! With this coverage, you have certainty your investment will keep providing clean, quality drinking water for a long, long time. 

Install a Whole-House Water Filter in Your Home

At Norrell Service Experts, we install different types of water filtration systems from Excalibur, like the Filtermax Superior Chemical Removal Filter. Whether you’re looking to decrease water hardness, eliminate bacteria or take care of dangerous chemicals, you’ll find the right product for you from Excalibur. Installation is quick, simple and bolstered with our 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. Contact your local Norrell Service Experts office for help picking out a water filtration system that suits your needs and budget.