5 Signs You Need a Home Water Filtration System

Most people do not go looking for a water problem. They notice something small and annoying, live with it for a while, and only later find out it was telling them something. Here are the five signals worth paying attention to.

1. Spots on glassware and fixtures. White, chalky residue on shower doors, faucets and dishes is scale, left behind when hard water evaporates. It is cosmetic on a glass and expensive inside a water heater.

2. Soap that will not lather. Hard water binds with soap instead of foaming. If you are using noticeably more detergent and shampoo than you used to, the water changed or you moved.

3. Dry skin and dull hair. The same mineral film that sits on your shower door sits on you. Many people notice this first after moving into a house on a different supply.

4. A smell or a taste. Chlorine is the common one on municipal supply. A rotten-egg smell usually means hydrogen sulfide, which shows up on well water and does not go away on its own.

5. Scale you can see on the shower head. Look at the holes. If they are crusted and the spray has gone uneven, that is the same mineral that is building up inside the water heater where you cannot see it.

None of these prove you need a system. They prove a test is worth doing, and testing your water is where we start.