From our Grist Mill Road shop in Holland Landing, we test well and town water across East Gwillimbury, then fit only what the water needs.
Every water call here starts with one question: well or town water? The street or village name does not settle it, so we check for a meter or a pressure tank where the line comes into the house.
A private well is the owner's responsibility to test and treat, so on a well we start by testing for iron and sulphur and taking a bacteria sample. Town water arrives already treated, so there we measure hardness and check which disinfectant it carries.
On town water the usual complaints are taste and grit, which sediment and carbon filtration handles. A well needs a test first, then treatment built on the results. For drains and water heaters, see our plumber in East Gwillimbury page.
On a Mount Albert, Queensville or concession-road well, orange toilet rings, rust-tinted laundry or a smell at the tap points to iron or sulphur, and the test shows which.
We sample before any existing equipment, so the result shows the well itself, not what an old filter misses.
Clear iron that stains later, cloudy water and iron-bacteria slime in the toilet tank each need different filter media.
An iron filter flushes itself clean with reverse flow, so we check whether the pump and pressure tank can supply it, and where the water drains on septic.
The iron filter goes straight after the sediment filter, so everything downstream gets water with the iron already out.
Read why local wells carry iron and sulphur, or see our iron and sulphur water filter service.
A rotten egg smell does not always come from the well. Where it starts decides between a filter and a water heater part.
We run hot and cold taps separately. If only the hot side smells, suspect the water heater, where the anode rod can react with sulphate and produce hydrogen sulphide, the gas behind the smell.
A different anode and a tank flush usually end it, with nothing added at the well. That is a water heater repair.
If the cold water smells just as strongly, the hydrogen sulphide comes from the well and is treated at the point of entry.
Often the iron filter handles it too; a strong smell gets its own stage. The source is confirmed before any equipment is chosen.
A well on a long-held rural property may have gone years without a sample. Clear, good-tasting water can still carry bacteria.
See every stage on our well water treatment service page.
Where a Sharon or Queensville home is on treated municipal water, filtration is about taste and fixtures, not safety.
The complaints are a disinfectant taste and smell, and grit in aerators. A sediment cartridge catches the particles; then carbon treats the taste at every tap and shower. Plain carbon handles chlorine but removes chloramine poorly, so we check which the supply uses and fit catalytic carbon for chloramine.
Housings mount just past the main shut-off with a bypass, so a cartridge change never leaves the house dry, and they are sized so the upstairs shower keeps its pressure. See whole-home water filtration systems.
Softeners and reverse osmosis: filtration leaves hardness in place, so many homes add a softener after the filters, and some a reverse osmosis drinking tap.
Some older houses still have galvanized steel supply pipe in a wall or basement ceiling, so we look for it before planning treatment. It rusts inside, and sediment and iron catch on the rough bore.
You notice brown water in the morning, weak flow upstairs and filter cartridges clogging early with rust from the house's own pipe.
Where we find it, treatment is planned alongside partial repiping: we replace the galvanized sections feeding the equipment and the worst runs, and price the rest separately. See repiping galvanized supply lines.
Our shop is at 45 Grist Mill Rd Unit 3W, Holland Landing, so retests and filter service are a short drive for any East Gwillimbury address.
We test the water and trace the problem at the well, taps and pipe before recommending equipment.
You get a written price before work starts. Each stage then gets a bypass, a drain if it backwashes and power where a controller needs it.
Once the system has run in, we retest at the tap and set backwash timing around your household.
We change cartridges and the UV lamp, clean the quartz sleeve, check iron media and take regular well bacteria samples.
What moves the price: how many stages the test calls for; the form of iron and strength of sulphur; backwash supply and drainage; and how much galvanized pipe comes out.
Near the shop? See our Holland Landing plumber page, or the AquaTec Plumbing home page.
Every water-treatment quote includes a free water test. Call the shop in Holland Landing to book one, or book online.
