Spotted glasses and dry skin are the symptoms people notice. The scale quietly building inside your water heater, your pipes and every appliance you own is the part that actually costs money. A free water test tells you exactly what you’re dealing with — and whether it’s worth doing anything about.
Water testing, filtration, softeners and reverse osmosis — installed, serviced and stocked. Serving Rifle, Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, Aspen & Snowmass, and the Vail Valley.
Tell us where you are and what you’ve noticed. We’ll come test your water, explain the results in plain English, and put a recommendation in writing.
Already have a system? We service and stock parts for most brands — just say so in the form.
No obligation. We’ll never sell your information.
Read your own water
Hard water and heavy mineral content are the norm across Western Colorado, and if you’re on a well, nobody is testing it but you. Most people never do — they just quietly live with the symptoms and replace appliances more often than they should. Here’s what to look for.
Clean dishes come out of the dishwasher looking dirty. That haze is dissolved mineral left behind as the water dries.
White crust on faucets, shower heads and inside the kettle. The same thing is building inside your water heater, where you can’t see it.
You’re getting through more detergent, shampoo and dish soap than you should have to, and things still don’t come out properly clean.
Whites turn grey, colors fade early, and towels come out scratchy no matter which detergent you switch to.
Minerals leave a film soap can’t rinse away. It’s the complaint we hear most — and the one people usually blame on the climate.
Metallic, sulfur, chlorine, or just flat. “Safe to drink” and “good to drink” are two very different standards.
Rust-colored marks in the toilet, tub or sink usually mean iron. Left alone, it stains fixtures and laundry permanently.
Water heaters, dishwashers, washing machines and ice makers all wear out faster when they push mineral-heavy water through themselves every day.
Recognize two or three of these? That’s worth a test. It costs you nothing to find out, and knowing is better than guessing.
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Water treatment has a reputation, and it was earned by companies that knock on doors and scare people into systems they don’t need. We’re a 58-year-old family plumbing company from Rifle. We live here, our kids go to school here, and we’d rather tell you your water is fine than sell you something twice over.
Call 970.989.9973How whole-home treatment works
Water treatment gets sold as a single mystery box. It isn’t. It’s three distinct jobs, and your test results decide which of them you actually need.
Goes on the main line before anything else, so every tap in the house gets it. Catches sediment, rust and the taste-and-odor problems before they reach your fixtures, your appliances or your shower.
Protects everything downstreamPulls out the calcium and magnesium that cause scale, using either salt or potassium — your choice. This is the one that saves your water heater and your appliances, and the one people notice in the shower the first morning.
Biggest single improvementA compact unit under the sink that handles drinking and cooking water specifically. This is where you get genuinely clean, good-tasting water for the glass and the coffee pot.
Drinking & cooking waterSoftening works by trading hardness minerals for sodium or potassium, which means softened water isn’t what you want to be drinking day in, day out over the long run. That’s why a softener and a reverse osmosis unit go together: the softener protects the house, the RO takes care of what you actually drink. Any company that sells you a softener without mentioning this is not being straight with you.
Install, service & parts
You don’t have to buy anything from us to be a customer. Plenty of people just need a filter, a bag of salt, or someone who’ll actually show up to fix the unit the last company installed.
We service and repair most brands, whether or not we installed it. Softener not regenerating, RO running slow, filter housing leaking — that’s a normal week for us.
Replacement filters, membranes, media and salt — come get what you need. If you know what you’re after, we’ll sell you the part and let you get on with it.
We come out twice a year, change the filters, top up the salt and check the settings. The system keeps doing its job and you never have to think about it. Most of our customers end up on this.
Why us
Putting a system in usually means cutting into your main line, and sometimes moving things around to make it fit. We’ve been doing the plumbing in these valleys since 1968, so the people who test your water are the same people who install it, and the same people who come back if something isn’t right.
Three generations of the same family, working out of Rifle since 1968. We’ll be around long after the warranty runs out.
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Questions
Yes. We test your water, explain what we found and leave you a written recommendation, at no charge and with nothing to sign. If the answer is that your water is fine and you don’t need anything, that’s what we’ll tell you.
Municipal water is treated to be safe, which is not the same as treated to be soft. Hardness minerals come through the tap regardless, and they’re what cause the scale, the spotting and the appliance wear. Safe and hard are perfectly compatible.
Quite different — and it’s the case where testing matters most, because no utility is monitoring it on your behalf. Well water varies enormously from property to property, even between neighbors. The only way to know what you have is to measure it.
Three different jobs. A whole-home filter takes out sediment, rust and taste-and-odor problems. A softener removes the calcium and magnesium that cause scale. Reverse osmosis, under the kitchen sink, produces genuinely clean drinking and cooking water. Your test results determine which you need — plenty of homes only need one.
Both work. Potassium costs more per bag and is the usual choice for people watching their sodium intake or concerned about salt in a septic system. We’ll walk you through the trade-off, and either way we’d recommend reverse osmosis for your drinking water.
Yes — most brands, and that’s a good share of what we do. We’ll also sell you filters, membranes, media and salt over the counter if you’d rather handle the maintenance yourself.
Filters need changing and softeners need salt — that’s the whole of it. Most of our customers put it on a six-month maintenance visit so they never have to track it: we come out, change the filters, top up the salt, check the settings, and leave.
Find out what’s in your water. It’s free, there’s nothing to sign, and you’ll finally know whether the spots on the glasses are worth doing something about.
