Water Quality Factors Tested For
- This test measures overall water quality
- Designed for determining a home's need for a Water Softener or Treatment System
- If you are interested in drinking water filtration, please visit or Drinking Water Systems section on our Products page
- Visit our Why Filter Water? Section to find out about other water quality issues
- Measures the general level of dissolved minerals in water
- Hard water causes lime scale and deposit build-up in appliances, on dishes and in laundry
- Makes lathering of soap difficult for washing and laundry
- Hard water requires higher detergent and soap use
- Lower pH water could be acidic, soft and corrosive causing heavy metal (lead) leaching and plumbing damage
- Higher pH water could be basic and hard affecting taste and leaving deposits on dishes and laundry, and making soap hard to lather
- Measures the ability of water to resist pH changes that would make water more acidic
- Measurement of alkalinity and pH are needed to determine the corrosiveness of water
- Naturally occurring element
- Enters water as it travels through the Earth's crust
- No known health effects at levels typically found in water
- Considered a nuisance at fairly low levels
- Contributes to water discoloration, staining of sinks, dishes and laundry
- Used to disinfect water
- By-products of chlorine can increase cancer risk
- Contributes to bad taste and smell of water
- Free chlorine measures amount of dissolved chlorine in water
- Total chlorine measures both free and combined forms of chlorine
