A separate drinking water faucet at the kitchen sink, set up after your well or municipal water has been tested.
Reverse osmosis forces water through a membrane that holds back dissolved minerals, sodium and the flat or metallic taste other filters miss. It is a drinking water filter for one tap, and in King City the setup depends on your source.
So the visit starts by confirming where your water comes from. On a municipal connection, the kitchen-tap test shows whether scale would coat the membrane and a softener belongs upstream.
Private wells need more care, since what a well carries is only known once it is tested. On any well in King City, Nobleton, Schomberg or Kettleby, whatever the raw-water test finds is treated at the main before a membrane goes in.
A membrane is only as good as the water that reaches it. On a King Township well, the test result decides what goes in ahead of it.
On a private well, each problem is dealt with ahead of the membrane. Our well water treatment service covers those stages.
Where a well throws sand, a sediment filter at the main keeps grit out. Without it, the RO pre-filter plugs and the drinking tap slows.
Both foul a membrane. An iron filter at the main removes them for the whole house and ends the orange rings in toilet tanks.
A rotten-egg odour is a dissolved gas, and a membrane is the wrong tool for it. Sulphur is treated at the main instead.
A softener keeps scale off the membrane, but neither disinfects, so an untested well needs a bacteria test first.
Most of the work is checking the water and planning the cupboard.
We confirm the supply, note what already treats it at the main and take baseline hardness and dissolved-solids readings at the kitchen tap.
Well pressure swings between pump start and stop, so we gauge it at the sink and check the pressure tank's air charge.
The faucet goes in a spare hole or a drilled one, a shut-off tees into the cold line, and the reject saddle sits above the trap.
The membrane is rinsed, every connection is checked for drips under pressure, and the RO faucet is tested against the baseline. Cartridges get dated labels.
On a well, stay on bottled water until the bacteria result comes back clean; then the RO tap can replace the jugs.
In a King Township power cut the well pump stops, but the pressurized RO tank still pours what it has stored.
After heavy use elsewhere in the house, the RO tank refills slowest until the well pump rebuilds pressure.
You keep the raw-water and drinking-tap readings, so a later taste change or well retest has a starting point.
The biggest factor sits upstream. A home on a municipal connection, or a well already treated at the main, may need only the RO unit; a well with untreated iron, sulphur or hardness may need those stages first, priced separately. Then come the number of stages, a remineralizing cartridge, a booster pump for low well pressure, drilling stone or quartz, and tubing across a large kitchen. The price is in writing before we begin.
The iron filter and softener protect the membrane. If orange stains, a sulphur smell or scale return at other taps, have them checked.
RO readings track minerals, not bacteria. Retest the raw well water regularly and after flooding, well work or any change in taste, colour or smell.
Close the RO feed valve before the well is shock chlorinated; strong chlorine can damage the membrane. After a clean retest, fit fresh pre-filters and run off the first tankful.
If the drinking tap slows or its reading drifts from the baseline, check the pre-filter and well pressure first. Either can look like a worn membrane.
Reverse osmosis treats the water you drink at one faucet and does nothing for scale in showers, laundry or heaters. Water softener installation in King City handles that for the whole house. Whole-home sediment and carbon filtration treats grit, taste and odour at every tap. On a private well the usual order is sediment, iron or sulphur treatment, softener, then UV where the bacteria history calls for it, with RO at the kitchen sink last.
What King City homeowners ask first.
Our licensed team at AquaTec Plumbing also serves Kingscross Estates, Nobleton and Schomberg.
Call to talk through your water source and get a written price first.
