Benefits of Installing Residential Water Filters

The average American family uses over 300 gallons of water in their home a day. If you think about it, your home’s water comes in contact with your food, clothes, and ultimately, your body. With our ease of access to clean water in the U.S., it is easy to miss the fact that there are benefits of installing residential water filters.

After it is taken from the source, water is treated before making its way to your home. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires municipal water suppliers to provide annual reports to residences about where their water comes from, what it is treated with, and what impurities are found. Plumbers like Green Group LLC also provide free water quality tests for municipal water and for a fee to test well water.

An in-home water filter provides another level of purification that can remove the residual chemicals that were used to treat your water, as well as metals and other contaminants. If your home uses a whole house water filter, filtration occurs at the water’s point of entry to your home. If using a point-of-use filter system, the water is filtered only at the water sources you choose.

Installing a water filter benefits your home in several ways:

  1. Removes Chemicals
  2. Enhances Water Quality, Taste
  3. Improves Water from A Shared Source
  4. Saves Money, Reduces Waste

Call Green Group LLC today for a free consultation about installing a residential water filter in Nashville, Franklin, Murfreesboro, and surrounding areas! 

Removes Chemicals

The chemicals used to clean your water and the by-products they create unfortunately make their way into the water you drink, bathe in, and wash your food with. These chemicals can also be hard on your plumbing system over time and cause pinhole leaks.

Filtering your water reduces or removes these undesirable impurities, minimizing your family’s exposure to chemicals and contributing to your overall physical health. (It should be noted, though, that water filters are not water softeners; filters do not remove scale build-up.)

Enhances Water Quality, Taste

When it comes to the water that you drink or put in direct contact with your body, why wouldn’t you want to enhance the quality? A water filter can remove rust, lead, chlorine, chloramines, and carbon based organic compounds (VOC’s) such as pesticides, herbicides, and industrial solvents from your home’s tap water.

One of the first things you will notice with the addition of a water filter is a change in your water’s taste and even odor; plus, better tasting water is an incentive to drink more water! Your food and mixed beverages will benefit, as well. And individuals whose water filters eliminate chlorine from their bathroom taps often notice improvements in their skin.

Improves Water from A Shared Source

If you are renting your home, an apartment, or if you share a water main, water filters are a viable and affordable way to improve your water quality! Point-of-use filters, especially, are an affordable way to have more control over the quality of your water when you aren’t planning to stay somewhere for long.

Saves Money, Reduces Waste

Another worthwhile benefit of a home water filtration system? You will actually save money! As previously mentioned, chemicals in your water can actually break down the materials of your plumbing system. Water filters, then, eliminate those chemicals and can extend the life of your pipes, fixtures, and faucets.

Residential water filters are also eco-friendly, as they encourage filling reusable bottles with filtered water rather than plastic bottles. And if you choose to add a premium carbon filter, this can reduce water quality throughout your home for 8 to 10 years. Better tasting water equates to less waste!

Whole house water filters and point-of-use filters require professional installation. Contact Green Group LLC!