There are many things that home owners don't know what to ask for when purchasing a household water treatment system. Some systems sold at retail stores are just not worth buying and others are just over priced. Many are told, 'based on how much you are willing to spend on your water quality so does the cost of the water treatment system.' This is a lie and completely not true. There are many ways in which you can get even the best water treatment systems or filters on the market for cheap. Saving on a water filter or treatment purchase means buying quality for less. Not buying junk.
So here are just some very, very basic guidelines to have in mind when you go to purchase a water treatment system or even a water filter. If you are going to spend any money at all for better water, I want you to do it right the first time.
1) Does it purify mechanically or chemically? You need to make sure you know this for sure. I cannot claim to purify your water by adding chemicals in it. Then what happens next, do the chemicals have an effect on you and your family? Of course they do. Every chemical has side effects; it's either wanted or unwanted. Mechanical purification of water means cleaning the water by taking out the toxins and substances already in it without adding anything new.
2) Reverse Osmosis Units: These are not whole house units, they are usually smaller and can be attached to a faucet in the house. Such as a kitchen sink or bathroom sink. Typically, some companies will changes warranty settings if you have just a reverse osmosis unit at your home by itself. Because that means the unit does a lot more work than it would have if it was working in hand with a whole house water treatment system.
Reverse Osmosis is basically purifying water through a membrane system (mechanical purification). Osmosis, as you already may know, is the diffusion or movement of water from a region of low dissolved substance concentration to a region of higher dissolved substance concentration. The reverse of that is just having the water move from a region of higher concentration of solutes to a region of lower concentration. So it is extracting the water from the rest of the junk. It is one of the finest filtration tactics known. Lots of companies use reverse osmosis water such as most car washes, pharmacies, some airports, reef aquariums, maple syrup production, and even star bucks, etc, etc.
Be very careful when purchasing a reverse osmosis unit because the cheap ones use up a lot of water and can end up raising your water bill. Other cheaper ones need constant filter changes and they don't really produce the water quality that you need in order to be safe from the deadly chemicals we discussed earlier. Reverse Osmosis units range in prices, from 0 to 00. This is something to be aware of too, a very productive reverse osmosis is not sold for 0. Just as you won't buy a new quality BMW for ,000.00 so it is with reverse osmosis units. So watch out if it's too cheap. Some companies provide top quality reverse osmosis units for FREE with a purchase of their household water treatment systems.
3) Guarantee of Productivity: Now when you are making any purchase to better your health and protect your family, you need a lot more than just a guarantee of your money back. The money back guarantee is great, but why all that hassle to buy a system that won't deliver its promise. You need a guarantee of productivity. You need the company to guarantee that the product will clean your water and protect your family. Reasons being that, you cannot afford to not have the best, cleanest, and purest water even after making a purchase like this, doing what the average person does not do. You go to the hospital to be healed or cured by professionals, and not to be attempted to be cured by some training med students/nurses. A guarantee of productivity could be either done by the company itself of by a trusted third party. Try to have both.
4) Validation on Product: You need to make sure that the product is being validated by top consumer-product rating companies. This is one way in which you can easily avoid making wrong choices and not buying junk. Some great seals that we recommend on water treatment systems for consumer satisfaction guarantee are, the Good housekeeping Seal, the ISO 9001 Seal, the CSA Certification, and the NSF International Seal. You may not always find these seals on every water treatment system, water filter, or Reverse Osmosis unit out there but there are some that you can't afford not to have patented on the equipment before you purchase it.
The Good Housekeeping Seal for example, if you have purchased any large home products before you might have heard of this seal before. What this seal means is if the product proves to be defective within two years from purchase date, the Good Housekeeping will replace the product or refund the purchase price. Remember that Good Housekeeping is not related to the company, so for them to make such a strong guarantee as that means the product really must be top notch. So Never buy a household water treatment system if it does not have the Good Housekeeping Seal on it. Regardless of what they promise you.
Preferably, try to purchase a water treatment system or water filter that has all and even more seals on it.
