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Iron Softeners

Water softeners and backwashing iron filters are two entirely different technologies. Water softeners have one purpose which is to remove hardness, PERIOD. If the water is not hard you don’t need a softener. And most of these slick talking salesmen never even tell you that you should NEVER drink the water that comes out of a softener. It is almost always unfit for human consumption. A water softener needs to have a “Metered” or “On demand” control valve at the top so that it uses as little salt and water as possible, often going 7 to 10 days between regeneration or cleaning cycles. If there is iron sitting in the unit for that long it tries to make the softener minerals “Iron Bound” which eventually ruins the minerals resulting in even higher salt usage and eventual service calls.

An Iron Filter on the other hand needs to backwash using a “Day Timer” type control valve. Unlike a Water Softener it matters little how much water passes through an iron filter. The important thing is that it cleans itself regularly to prevent the minerals inside from becoming “Iron Bound”. NEVER buy an iron filter that uses a meter or “On demand” type control valve. Also be sure ANY unit you buy, whether “On demand” for a water softener or “Day Timer” for an iron filter, that it is a “Digital” control valve. Non digital control valves are the first sign you are buying extremely out of date ancient technology. And finally never use a “Piston Driven” control valve on any well with iron, sediment, sulfur, manganese etc. This would include Fleck, Clack or any others. Some examples of in home sales companies who use piston driven valves would be Culligan, RainSoft, Ionics, Eco Water and many others. While we sell both cam driven and piston driven valves we are of the opinion after many years of providing both that the piston driven valves fail sooner in these harsh conditions and require expensive service calls to rebuild or replace. This is not the case with our cam driven valves. Please don’t hesitate to give us a quick call for a quick evaluation of your issue. Keep in mind our technicians are not allowed to ask you to buy anything or pressure you in ANY way. They just answer your questions and give you great advice. We are the online leader for water treatment worldwide.

WARNING: When it comes to water treatment equipment you should NEVER do business with ANY company who does not have the same certifications as we do. It is just plain crazy. There are so many "Fly by night" companies out there that it should be the very FIRST rule in your decision making process. It is your first, and some times ONLY, line of defense. Just look at our home page to see our many appropriate certifications. You will find them all in the top third of the page.
 

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Budget Water International, Inc. is not affiliated with Culligan®, Inc., RainSoft® Water Conditioning Co., Kinetico® Incorporated, Wm. R. Hague®, Inc., Cuno® Incorporated, Rayne® Corporation, or Ecodyne Corporation.

We carry water treatment equipment and water filter sizes ranging to 1,200,000 grain water softeners and water conditioners, as well as virtually every other type of water treatment system or water filter available for city water or private well water systems. Larger commercial water treatment systems are available too. If it exists and it works, we have the finest water treatment technology. We build every unit we sell to order, from scratch. Unlike most other in-home and online companies who have them in a warehouse collecting dust and going out of date sometime for years at a time. Every unit we sell is made from the very latest, up to date,  state of the art technology. We are the industry leaders for analyzing and and recommending the following water filtration systems: Water softeners, iron filters, sulfur filter systems, manganese filtration filters, bacteria removal, tannin removal, smell and odor treatment systems, water conditioners, rust filters and virtually all types of well water treatment and purification systems. If it exists and it works we have it or can build it. Premium Quality Equipment at Budget Prices, 7 days a week Budget Water USA.

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*We manufacture most of our equipment from scratch. We use only premium national name brand components on all equipment that we sell. The same people that make equipment for many other national PREMIUM brand companies make them for us as well. Three of the top control valve makers are Fleck, Autotrol and Clack; we carry all three types and many of the other top brands as well.

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