Should you use a carbon filter?

Deciding whether or not to use a carbon filter in your home and the type of filter you need all depends on the type(s) and contaminants’ concentration levels in your water. You can install one in case one or more of the toxic pollutants that activated carbon filters remove or reduce pop up uninvited in your water supply.active carbon pellets

A home water quality test is a fast and reliable way to check your home’s water quality. These tests affordable, easily accessible, and display useful and easy-to-understand results quickly. Of course, we offer high-quality, affordable, and reliable water testing kits that test for many different contaminants in drinking water in just a few minutes.

Alternatively, you can contact your local water provider and request a copy of their annual water quality report, which usually provides useful information about the water quality in your area. Or if you want to take the more expensive, time-consuming, but more accurate-results-producing route, you can take a water sample from your home and send it to a laboratory in your area for testing.

Now, back to the question of “Should you use a carbon filter?” If your water quality test returns positive for any of the contaminants listed under “What water contaminants do activated carbon remove or reduce?”, then purchasing an activated carbon filter is a wise move. Again, you can also install one as a precautionary measure even if the tests return negative.

Should you decide to purchase and install an activated carbon filter, you have two main options:

· Point-of-entry (POE) filters
POE filters connect to the main water line entering your home. They treat all the water before it travels to your home’s water dispensers, such as faucets, toilets, showers, baths, kitchen, laundry, and others. The most common type of a POE system is a whole-house filtration system. Whole-house filters work to eliminate possible contaminants before they can reach your taps and ultimately be ingested or absorbed by the skin during washing, bathing, or showering.

The Springwell CF1 whole-house filtration system relies on the same POE technique and other unique materials and technologies to produce clean, great-tasting filtered water for your home. It uses catalytic activated coconut shell carbon, KDF media, and other innovative filtration methods and technologies to remove up to 99.9% of toxic water contaminants, including PFOS, PFOA, pesticides, chlorine, chloramine, copper, lead, herbicides, and many more.

The catalytic activated coconut shell carbon used in our whole-house systems is manufactured from high-quality coconut shells. This form of activated carbon significantly enhances the ability for superior efficiency when removing contaminants, and rapid decomposition of chlorine, chloramines, and chlorine byproducts.

Coconut shell activated carbon is the preferred carbon in POE systems, probably because it removes VOCs, THMs, hydrogen peroxides, hydrogen sulfides, TCE, PCE, detergents, phenols, taste, odor, and other contaminants from water. Plus, it is more environmentally-friendly than most other forms of activated carbon since the coconut trees are not destroyed during harvesting.

Apart from the impeccable filtration capacity of the CF1, it also produces an impressive water flow rate that helps to prevent decreases in water pressure. The system is easy to install and maintain. It also comes with a lifetime warranty, a six-month money-back guarantee, and free shipping!

· Point-of-use (POU) filterswww.powdered-activated-carbon.com
POU filters are not to be confused with POE systems, though they do achieve somewhat similar results and are usually less expensive. POU filters are installed at a single fixture and treat water where it is being used – typically under the sink in the kitchen or bathroom.

Reverse osmosis systems are the most common type of POU system. These include units like Springwell’s SWRO-Nickel and SWRO-Bronze reverse osmosis systems, which can be installed under the sink. Both filtration systems can remove contaminants, such as lead, copper, fluoride, arsenic, aluminum, chlorine, chloramine, herbicides, pesticides, and many other pollutants, from water. Besides, they fit perfectly under nearly any size sink and provide 75 gallons of treated water to your home every day. They’re the perfect solutions if you want to treat the water at specific taps in your home.