When purchasing a water filter system, the installation of the system is important. Some of the things to look for on the main line systems are drain pans. As you can see from the picture, most of the water filter system can be placed in a pan with a drain pipe to the floor drain. […]

When people speak of soft water, I have heard everything from 0 to 7 grains of calcium carbonate /gal (gpg). The official definition is below. Water hardness is classified by the U.S. Department of Interior and the Water Quality Association as follows: Units are grains of calcium carbonate /gal (gpg) Soft water = 0 – […]

Recently I did a site survey at a local 20-year-old hotel. The internal copper water pipes are eroding away for some reason. The punch list above includes potential causes. This erosion will not fix itself. If the root cause cannot be identified, then an internal pipe coating injection system on main water line maybe required. […]