Cleaner-tasting water from its own small tap beside the sink, whether your Bradford home is on town water or a private well. We test the water first, then match the system to the results.
Reverse osmosis pushes water through a membrane that holds back dissolved minerals and sodium, then rinses them to the drain. It serves one faucet, and the fridge if you like.
Green Valley, Grand Central and Summerlyn Village are on municipal water. We measure how hard it is at your tap with a water test rather than assume; where hardness shows up, a softener upstream protects the membrane, and RO removes the sodium softening adds. Under the sinks of older Holland Street houses, original supply pipe may need a new section before we tee in.
Rural properties on the concessions and at the marsh edge may be on private wells instead. If you are not sure whether your Bond Head or rural home is on a well or town service, we confirm it at the first visit, and anything a well test turns up is treated before a membrane ever sees the water.
On a rural well, the membrane under the sink is the final stop. Whatever the test finds, iron or hardness, gets settled in the basement first.
Whatever a test finds is solved upstream, near the pressure tank, with well water treatment for iron, sulphur and bacteria.
Some private wells carry iron, and only a test shows whether yours does. Left in, it plugs pre-filters and coats the membrane, so a filter at the main removes it.
A rotten-egg odour is a dissolved gas that slips through a membrane. When testing finds it, it is treated at the main.
If the well tests hard, scale builds on the membrane. A softener upstream protects it and the fixtures.
RO is not a disinfection system. An untested well gets a lab sample first, and UV where results call for it.
We confirm town water or a well, look at the equipment already in the basement, and take a starting reading of the kitchen water.
Membranes need steady pressure. On a well we follow the gauge through a pump cycle before any booster pump is discussed.
The faucet mounts through a spare counter opening or a drilled one, with a dedicated cold-supply valve and the reject fitting clamped above the trap.
We flush the membrane, fill the tank, check each fitting under pressure and measure the RO water against the starting reading. Cartridges get marked with install dates.
The disinfectant taste of town water, or a treated well's mineral edge, drops out of the cup.
Kettles filled from the RO faucet stay largely clear of the white scale hard water leaves.
The small faucet runs slower than the main tap; an air-gap model may gurgle as the tank refills.
When a storm stops the well pump, the pressurized storage tank still pours what it holds.
RO treats drinking and cooking water at one tap and does nothing about scale in showers or heaters. Water softener installation in Bradford handles hardness house-wide, and whole-home water filtration cleans up sediment, taste and smell for the whole supply. A basic carbon drinking water filter improves taste but lets minerals and sodium through. On a Bradford well the usual order is iron and sulphur treatment, softener, UV if needed, then RO.
Upstream treatment decides the most. A Grand Central home with a working softener needs only the RO unit, while a marsh-edge well may need iron, sulphur or softening stages first, quoted separately. Then: filter stages, minerals added back for taste, a pump for weak well pressure, drilling a stone counter, tubing to the fridge and replacing old pipe under an older sink. The price is in writing before we start.
Sediment and carbon cartridges are replaced on the schedule set at installation.
A slowing faucet, or a reading creeping back toward the start, means the membrane is wearing out.
Flow that sputters partway through a pot means the tank bladder needs air.
If orange stains or scale reappear elsewhere, have the iron filter or softener checked before the membrane suffers.
What town and well owners ask first.
The same AquaTec Plumbing crew serves Bond Head, the Holland Marsh and rural Bradford West Gwillimbury.
Tell us whether you are on town water or a well, and we will price a drinking water setup in writing.
