Whole Home Systems
Whole-home water softeners and filtration
A whole-home system treats water where it enters the house, so every tap, shower, appliance and ice maker gets the same treated water. This is the equipment that actually fixes hard water — the scale on your fixtures, the film on your shower door, the water heater that's aging faster than it should.
Whole-Home Softening + Filtration
One tank, layered. Softening and carbon filtration in the same vessel.
A single tank carrying layered media — granular activated coconut shell carbon on top, high-capacity softening resin beneath it, and a polishing gravel bed at the base — with its own brine tank alongside. It is plumbed in where the water enters the house, so every tap, shower and appliance is downstream of it. The resin takes out the hardness that scales your kettle, spots your glassware and stops soap rinsing. The carbon layer takes out the chlorine taste and smell. One vessel, both jobs, and a smaller footprint than a two-tank build.
Best for: Any home with hardness in the water — wells, and towns on groundwater supply
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Dual Tank System
Two tanks. Hardness in one, chlorine and taste in the other.
The bigger city-water build: a dedicated softening tank and a dedicated carbon filtration tank, plumbed in one after the other at the point of entry. Treating in stages does each job properly rather than asking one bed of media to do everything, which means more capacity, longer media life and better performance on a busy house. Both tanks backflush themselves to keep the system working for longer.
Best for: Larger homes, and anyone who wants each job handled in its own vessel
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Whole-Home Carbon Filtration
For soft water that still tastes of the pipe it came through.
Most of Rhode Island and the MWRA belt already arrives soft, so there is no hardness for a softener to remove — but there is still chlorine, and still everything the water picks up crossing a hundred years of main on the way to your kitchen. This is a single tank of granular activated coconut shell carbon over a polishing gravel bed, plumbed in at the point of entry. No salt, no brine tank, no drain line and nothing to refill. Every tap, shower and appliance in the house runs through it.
Best for: Homes on Providence Water, the MWRA and any soft municipal supply
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Wells & groundwaterWell Water Treatment
For every home drawing its water straight out of the ground.
Most of western and southern Rhode Island is well country — Foster, Glocester, Scituate, Burrillville, Exeter, Richmond, Charlestown, Hopkinton, West Greenwich and Little Compton run almost entirely on private bedrock wells, and so do a great many homes beyond the mains elsewhere. Add the towns that pump town groundwater rather than reservoir water, from South County to every town on Cape Cod, and that is a completely different problem from a treated surface supply. Hardness and iron, usually. Often a sulfur smell, which no softener will touch — it has to be oxidised out first, which is why this build is staged.
Best for: Homes on groundwater supply, or on their own well
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Why this matters
It protects the expensive things
Water heaters, dishwashers, washing machines and the plumbing itself. Scale is what shortens their lives, and it accumulates quietly for years before anything visibly fails.
You feel it in the shower first
Soap rinses properly in soft water. Most people notice their skin and hair within about a week — it's the single most common thing customers mention in reviews.
Chlorine goes too
Our whole-home systems combine softening resin with coconut-shell carbon, so hardness and chlorine are handled in one tank rather than two pieces of equipment.
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Find out what's actually in your water
We'll test your water at your kitchen sink, show you the result, and tell you what — if anything — you need. Free, and there's no system that fits every house.
- A straight recommendation for your water
- Exact price up front
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