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Point of entryWhole-home carbon filtration
Installed where water enters your house, so every tap, every shower and every appliance gets filtered water — not just the kitchen sink.
What it's for
Colorado Springs disinfects with free chlorine. Pueblo and Castle Rock use chloramine. Both are doing exactly what they're supposed to do — they keep the water safe from the treatment plant to your house. Neither is pleasant to drink, cook with, or shower in.
A properly sized carbon system reduces that chlorine or chloramine along with the disinfection byproducts that form alongside it. What changes, in practice: coffee and tea taste different, ice stops smelling like a pool, and the shower stops drying out skin the same way.
Chlorine and chloramine are not the same job
This matters and most companies skip it. Chloramine is far more stubborn than free chlorine and requires catalytic carbon with adequate contact time to reduce meaningfully. A standard carbon bed sized for chlorine will underperform on chloramine.
If you're in Pueblo or Castle Rock, you're on chloramine and you need the catalytic media and the larger bed. If you're in Colorado Springs, you're on free chlorine and the requirement is different. Quoting the same system for both is a tell.
Sizing is the whole game
A whole-home filter that's too small for your home restricts flow and exhausts early. We size on your home's actual peak demand — bathroom count, fixture count, irrigation draw — which is why we ask those questions during the water test instead of quoting off a square footage number.
Install time Typically half a day to a day, permitted
Pricing Quoted in writing after your free water test, itemized by component. Sizing drives the price, so we won't guess at it over the phone.
Get it sized properly
Free in-home test and a written, itemized quote.
Common questions
What does whole-home carbon filtration actually reduce?
Chlorine, chloramine, and the taste and odor compounds that ride along with them, plus disinfection byproducts like trihalomethanes. Colorado Springs Utilities reported free chlorine averaging 0.89 mg/L and total trihalomethanes averaging 40.9 ppb, ranging up to 62.4. Both are within limits. Both are also what you're tasting.
Does it soften the water?
No. Carbon and softening are different jobs. Carbon addresses taste, odor and chemistry. Softening addresses hardness minerals. If a company tells you a carbon filter softens water, walk away.
Will it hurt my water pressure?
Not when the system is sized to your home's flow rate and fixture count. Undersizing is the most common cause of pressure complaints after a whole-home install, and it's why we ask about bathroom count and irrigation before quoting rather than after.
How long does the media last?
Whole-home carbon media typically runs several years, and the exact interval depends on your water chemistry and household usage. We set your replacement date from your actual water test, not from a generic chart, and it's tracked in your service plan.
Find out what's actually in your water.
We test at your kitchen sink, walk you through the results and your utility's own published report, and give you a written recommendation. If your water doesn't need treatment, we'll say so and leave.