The quality of your home’s water can certainly affect your body’s health, but it can also affect the condition of something else in your home: your pipes. Although some water contaminants can flow through your pipes without harming them, others can cause severe corrosion and clogging. Today we’re going to talk about the effects water quality has on your pipes and how installing a water treatment system can save you time and money when it comes to your home’s plumbing system!
How does your home’s water quality affect your pipes?
- Low pH levels. Water with low pH levels is considered acidic. If you have acidic water in your home, it can corrode the insides of your pipes. Not only can this cause expensive damage, but it also allows metals like copper and lead to leech into your home’s water supply.
- Hard water. Hard water is extremely problematic to your home’s pipes. If your home has hard water, limescale will build up inside of your pipes over time and shrink their diameters. This restricts the amount of water that can flow through your pipes, which reduces your home’s water pressure. It also makes it easy for your pipes to clog, because large particles will get caught in the narrow pipes.
- Iron bacteria. Iron bacteria is often present in water with high levels of iron. In severe cases, iron bacteria can grow so much that the sludge it creates can clog your pipes.
- Sulfur and zinc. These two common water contaminants have corrosive properties that can cause extensive damage to your pipes.
Protecting your pipes will protect your health and save you time and money
By installing a water treatment system in your home, you can protect your pipes from all of the above water contaminants and more. Doing so will help keep your pipes in great condition, which will avoid the amount of expensive and inconvenient repair calls you’ll have to make to the plumber. In addition, installing a treatment system will allow water to flow freely through your pipes and keep it as healthy as possible.
Choose the right type of treatment system for protecting your pipes
If you want to install a water treatment system to protect your home’s pipes, it’s important that you choose the right one. First and foremost, you should choose a whole house system as opposed to a point-of-use system. That’s because a whole house system treats your water as soon as it enters your home, which will remove contaminants before water flows through any of your home’s pipes. Also, have your water tested for free by North Carolina Water Consultants so that you can see which contaminants you need to protect your pipes against and choose the system that will get the job done.
If you have any questions about the effects your home’s water quality can have on your pipes, or if you’d like a water system serviced or installed in your home, contact North Carolina Water Consultants, your water softener and water filtration system dealer in North Carolina and South Carolina. We provide service all over the Carolinas, including towns like Matthews, Wadesboro and Casar, NC.