The water coming into your home may meet municipal drinking water standards, but that does not necessarily mean you want everything used during the water-treatment process flowing through your plumbing, water heater, water softener, showers, faucets, and drinking water.

Municipal water systems commonly use chlorine or chloramines to disinfect drinking water and control bacteria as water moves through the distribution system. These disinfectants serve an important purpose, but once the water reaches your home, they can create other concerns.

Chlorine and chloramines can affect the taste and smell of water, can be harmful to fish and other aquatic animals, and can be particularly hard on the ion-exchange resin inside a water softener.

Disinfection can also produce disinfection by-products, commonly called DBP’s, when disinfectants react with naturally occurring organic material in the water.

At Weilhammer Plumbing Co. Inc., we offer whole-house water filtration systems designed to reduce these unwanted compounds before the water moves throughout your home.

For many Indianapolis-area homes, master plumber Mark Weilhammer (License #106214) recommends installing a 2-cubic-foot backwashing activated carbon filter ahead of the water softener.

That gives you two different forms of water treatment working together:

1. Activated carbon filtration reduces chlorine, chloramines, objectionable tastes and odors, and certain organic compounds.
2. Water softening removes the calcium and magnesium responsible for hard water and mineral scale.

Instead of expecting a water softener to handle problems it was never designed to treat, each system does the job it was built to do.

Call Weilhammer Plumbing at 317-784-1870 to ask about whole-house water filtration or request a free estimate.

Not every carbon filter is the same.

Small disposable cartridges contain relatively little carbon and may have limited capacity. A 2- cubic-foot whole-house carbon system provides a substantially larger bed of filtration media for incoming water to pass through.

More carbon media provides greater opportunity for the water to contact the carbon before leaving the treatment tank.

The system also backwashes automatically.

During a backwash cycle, water moves through the media bed to help lift and redistribute the carbon and flush accumulated material from the tank. This helps keep the media bed functioning properly rather than relying on a small cartridge that must handle the home's entire water demand.

For homeowners who are serious about reducing chlorine and chloramines throughout the house, Weilhammer Plumbing recommends properly sized whole-home equipment rather than trying to solve a whole-house problem with a small point-of-use filter.

Want to address both municipal disinfectants and hard water? Weilhammer Plumbing Co. Inc. offers a complete water-treatment package for $3,950.00, including installation.

The Package Includes:

• 2-cubic-foot backwashing activated carbon filtration system
• 48,000-grain Clack water softener
• Professional installation
• Proper configuration with the carbon system installed ahead of the softener
• PACKAGE PRICE: $3,950 INSTALLED

The carbon filter handles chlorine, chloramine and other filterable compounds while helping protect the softener resin. The Clack water softener (water softener page then removes hardness minerals that contribute to mineral buildup, scale, spotting and other hard-water problems. One system protects the other, while together they address two completely different water-quality concerns.

For many Indianapolis homeowners, it makes far more sense than replacing a water softener repeatedly because its resin has been subjected to years of chlorine or chloramine exposure.

Contact us today at 317-784-1870 to ask about our $3,950 whole-house carbon filtration and 48,000-grain Clack water softener package.