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Pro Tips Series #1: Best Methods for Maintaining Your Water Heater

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Welcome to our Pro Tips Series , where we share expert insights to help you keep your home water systems running at peak performance and maintain quality water for your family. In this edition, we’ll focus on the best methods for maintaining your water heater — ensuring efficiency, longevity, and safe hot water for your home. Pro Tip #1: Flush Your Tank Annually Over time, sediment accumulates at the bottom of your tank, reducing efficiency and shortening the lifespan of your water heater. Draining and flushing the tank once a year clears this sediment and helps maintain optimal performance. On-demand water heaters also require annual service and flushing to ensure efficiency and extend their lifespan. Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Flush a Gas Water Heater On-Demand Water Heaters For tankless water heaters, annual service and flushing are essential for efficiency and longevity. These systems can accumulate scale inside the heat exchanger, which reduces performance ...

Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water Systems - What are they and why we all need one.

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Reverse Osmosis filtration  is a process where water is forced through a semi-permeable membrane to reduce total dissolved solids and other contaminants from water to supply clean, fresh drinking water.     A typical residential reverse osmosis system will have 3 to 7 stages of filtration consisting of a 5-micron sediment pre-filter, an Activated carbon filter, a Block carbon filter, a Reverse Osmosis Membrane, an  In-line  Activated carbon post filter, and a water holding tank.   The pre-filter and carbon filters are there to remove sediment and any chlorine that may be present in the water supply to protect the membrane from becoming fouled out with iron and large particulate matter to protect the reverse osmosis membrane.  The RO membrane is the main stage of the filtration process and removes up to 99% of contaminants in the water supply.    The list of filtration a Reverse Osmosis drinking water system will remove is extensive....