We Provide Water Softening Services to the Residents of Ontario, CA.

The softener Service Flow Rate – SFR – is the number of gallons per minute of perfectly softened water a softener produces. The flow rates you find on the label for most softeners are simply the max water flow that can be pushed through the softener, without considering whether the water has been fully softened or not!

Water softening isn’t an instant process. The water must be in contact with the softening resin long enough to complete the process.

The flow rate the softener must be able to handle depends on the home and in a smaller part by how many people live in your home. Larger homes, with more bathrooms, and more people living in them will have a larger SFR requirement than smaller homes. Most of the time, the label a softener shows for the flow rate is the maximum flow rate that the water softener control valve will allow it to flow. It is not the same flow rate at which the softener will soften the water. The flow rate that a water softener can perfectly produce soft water is a function of the resin amount the softener is designed to handle.

The flow rate is the amount of soft water at which the softener will produce perfectly. Surpassing the SFR by a small amount likely means that no more than 1 or 2 grains per gallon will make it through. It is still soft water, but not perfectly soft. The outcome is still acceptable for most uses of your appliances.

You need to ask these three questions before answering this query:

1. Is your home water greater than 30 grains hard per gallon?

2. Do you have any sensitive to hardness appliances using water? Such as a boiler or tankless water heater.

3. Do you have showers with multiple heads or body sprayers? These consume lots of water, often between 5 - 8 gallons per minute.

If your answer to all of these questions is a resounding NO! Then you don’t need a softener that needs to support more than 5 gallons per minute.

SER – Softener Efficiency Rating – It’s the ratio of the amount of softening capacity the softener generates for the amount of salt it utilizes. It’s expressed in grains/lb. The higher the number, the better. 3,333 is a good number but 5,000 is the best. Don’t buy a softener unless the store can show you such important data. It is the best piece of information you will have to determine the long-term equipment cost as well as its environmental impact.

SFR – Service Flow Rate – Is the maximum flow rate water can push through the softener to delivers perfectly soft water. The simplest way to figure out your max flow rate is to determine your water-main pipe diameter. The water-main is the line that comes out of your water meter if you’re in the city. For those who are in rural areas and have your own water supply, the main line is the one coming out of your pressure tank.

You can easily install these filtration systems by yourself; however, it is always better to hire a professional to install them for you. Plumbs Up offers you trained and certified technicians who guarantee a top-quality job. Our experts have all the knowledge needed to do all your repair and installation work, which they perform most professionally and cost-effectively. At Plumbs Up, expect your property and plumbing work to be in excellent and trusted hands.

Our team has 17 years of experience in handling water filtration system repair and installation.

Hard water can ruin your brand-new appliances, and it can clog up your drainage pipes, causing a significant blockage.

Installing a UV filter will give your water protection from viruses, bacteria, cysts, coliform, salmonella, giardia, E. coli, typhoid fever, flu, polio, and many other painful and hurtful illnesses. 

A UV filter works by exposing all the harmful germs and bacteria you find in your tap water to a wavelength of germicides. This wavelength kills germs' reproduction process. Once they can no longer reproduce, they no longer have the power to make humans sick.

Don't try to install a UV filter yourself. Have our trained professionals do it for you.

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Well, you can call our experts to your house/office, or you can mail us your water in a plastic container for us to test your water.

Our free of cost testing gives you a detailed analysis of what is in your water. There are two kinds of water sources that can distribute your house's water supply. A private well or the city's water distribution system. To know more about your water, we provide other forms of testing as well. We will provide you information on your water's ph level, iron test, hardness test, nitrates, and the TDS with this test. 

The ph level test is a very basic test that tells you how much acid or alkaline is in your water. If your water level is 6.9 and below, the test will show your water to be acidic. However, if your testing reads the levels to be 7.1 and higher, your water level has a high alkaline concentration. An excess amount of either option is not healthy. If you have too much acid concentration in your water, then it could be pretty harmful to your pipes in the future as it could erode or cause damage to your internal piping. 

An iron test tells you the level of iron that is available in your water. Having too much iron in your water is harmful to your health. This test is generally for people who own a private well and need to know the iron level in their well water.

Hardness in water comes typically from the enriched minerals present in it. Highly concentrated hard water can aid to your dry skin and can also cause disruption in your household appliances that use this water. Having a test performed to check its level can let you know what type of filtration system you will need in your house to equip you better. 

Nitrates are substances like human waste, animal waste, or pesticides. You might want to get your local plumber to check that before it causes any illness. Even if your local water providers tell you that it has an acceptable level of nitrate in your water, you still may want to remove it from your drinking water.

We also provide paid testing of water that gives you a more insightful finding.

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Are you constantly trying to get rid of the iron concentration in your house’s water supply? Pick the phone up and give us a call. We have the best plumber in Northern Toronto to help provide you the assistance you need. Having a lot of iron in your water can be a nuisance. Three types of iron are usually present in your water — Ferric, Ferrous, and Bacterial. You cannot see them because they have entirely dissolved into the water you use. 

You will know when you have too much iron in your water. It will start staining your toilets and your sinks. It will not only shrink your clothes but also turn them orange. And if you decide to bathe in high concentrated iron water, it can go to the extent to even turn your hair and skin orange. It also causes discoloration on your taps, faucets, sinks, etc.