The Valley's hard water problem
Ask anyone with a water heater in the West Valley what the water does. It leaves white scale on shower glass and faucets, spots dishes coming out of the dishwasher, stiffens laundry, and dries skin and hair. Behind the walls it does worse: mineral scale and sediment build up in pipes, fixtures and the water heater, which is why hard water shortens the life of the appliances that use it.
Hard water is not the only complaint we hear. Tap water can smell of chlorine or sulfur, taste flat or look cloudy, and some households are simply concerned about what else is in the supply, including so-called forever chemicals. Professional treatment improves taste, clarity and quality by removing or reducing chlorine, sediment, minerals and other impurities commonly found in Arizona water.
Sunstate Plumbing has been working on this since 1989 for homes and businesses across Greater Phoenix. The first visit is about your water and your house, not a system pulled off a shelf. Call (623) 937-4258 from Peoria or anywhere in the Valley and we will work out what you are actually dealing with.
Softener, filter or purifier
A water softener is the answer to hard water: scale buildup, low pressure from clogged lines, spotted dishes, dry skin and hair. It does one job and does it for the whole house. Reverse osmosis uses multi-stage filtration to pull dissolved solids, chlorine and contaminants from the water, usually at the kitchen tap for drinking and cooking.
A whole-house filtration system is installed on the main water line, so every tap delivers cleaner, fresher water, which a point-of-use filter cannot do. Ultraviolet treatment uses UV-C light to neutralize bacteria, viruses and microorganisms, which makes it a good fit for rural properties and private wells.
These are not either-or. Plenty of houses pair a softener with a filter, because they solve different problems. Our job is to sort out which problem is yours, scale, taste and odor, sediment or microbiology, and to recommend the system that fixes it rather than the one with the most parts. Financing runs through GreenSky, and you can prequalify with no impact on your credit.
Sized to the house, kept up
A treatment system only works as hard as it is sized. A softener too small for the household runs out of capacity and passes hard water. One too big wastes salt and water regenerating. We size the system to your house and your preferences, then calibrate it so it performs the way it should from the first day.
Most softeners live in a laundry closet or a garage: a control-head tank, a brine tank for the salt, and lines tied into the main supply. That is a typical fit for a Peoria home, close to the water and out of the way, and it leaves the rest of the plumbing alone.
Upkeep is part of the plan. Softeners need salt, and filters need new media or cartridges on a schedule, so we keep the systems we install maintained. It also protects what sits downstream, the water heater most of all. Pair treatment with the annual flush and anode-rod check a tank needs, and the $189 standard water heater tune-up special fits right alongside (restrictions apply).
