Whole home softener and filtration

Whole home water filtration in Santa Barbara.

One system where the water enters the house, so every tap, every shower and the water heater get treated water, not the raw supply.

What it takes care of

What a whole home water softener and filter takes care of

And when the assessment finds something this system does not do, you get pointed at the one that does.

Chlorine taste and smell

In every glass and every shower, including the pool smell that comes off hot water.

Scale and hard water spots

On fixtures, shower doors and dishes, and the soap that will not lather because of it.

Wear on appliances

Scale that builds inside the water heater, the dishwasher and the washing machine.

Dealing with something else?

Whole home mixed bed system, softener and carbon in one footprint

The whole home mixed bed. About the footprint of a small chest freezer.

The system

A softener and a carbon filter in one tank

Two stages in one tank, which is what mixed bed means. A softener takes the hardness out, carbon takes out the chlorine taste and smell. It sits where the water enters the house, rinses itself, and keeping the salt cabinet filled is the only job it leaves you.

The drinking water stage

Reverse osmosis goes under the kitchen sink, on its own faucet. The house gets two stages, your drinking and cooking water gets a third. More on the RO system

The number

Starting at $2,899

Covers the softener, the carbon stage, the under sink reverse osmosis, the install and the taxes for a standard home. Tank size comes from how many people are in the house, and one short call settles it. On a well? Sized and priced on its own.

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Included

Everything a city water home needs, in one price

One system for the whole house and one for the kitchen tap, sized to your household and put in writing before anything is ordered.

  • Softener. Takes out the hardness that leaves scale behind.
  • Carbon stage. Takes out the chlorine taste and smell.
  • Under sink reverse osmosis. Drinking and cooking water on its own faucet.
  • The install. Put in where the water enters the house.

You should not be able to taste your water.

Good to know

Whole home water filtration in Santa Barbara: what to know

Softener and carbon in one tank

A softener and a carbon filter are usually sold as two separate tanks. A mixed bed puts both stages in one, so the system takes less floor and has one control head instead of two.

Hard water goes through the softening stage, then the carbon stage takes the chlorine taste and smell out before the water heads to the rest of the house.

Sized to your household

Tank size comes from how many people live in the house and how much water they use. Too small and it runs out between rinses, too big and you pay for capacity you never use.

That is what the short assessment call settles, before any number is written down.

Where it goes in the house

A whole home system goes where the main line comes in, which is most often a basement, a utility room or a garage.

It needs a drain for its rinse cycle and an outlet for the control head, and enough room to open the salt cabinet.

City water, chlorine and hardness

City water arrives treated, and the chlorine used to treat it rides along to every tap. Hardness was never the utility's job, so it arrives too.

One system handles both where the water enters the house. Drinking water gets reverse osmosis on top.

Questions

Whole home water filtration questions

Anything else goes in your assessment request, and the answer comes back with your number.

City water arrives treated, but the chlorine used to treat it rides along, and hardness was never treatment's job. If you can taste one or see the other, that is your answer.

The softener uses it to rinse itself. You will notice the cabinet level drop over weeks, not days, and refilling it is the whole maintenance routine.

Every tap gets the two whole house stages, and reverse osmosis goes under the kitchen sink with its own faucet, for drinking and cooking water.

No. A softener takes out hardness and a carbon filter takes out chlorine taste and smell. This system does both in one tank.

About the footprint of a small chest freezer, counting the salt cabinet beside the tank.

Where the main water line enters the house, most often a basement, a utility room or a garage.

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