We have yet to meet a customer who wasn’t concerned about the quality of their water. It’s something they ask us about all the time, and for all the right reasons: their children’s safety, their own good health, the impact of poor-quality water on plumbing fixtures and appliances, and more.
Today, we’d like to share with you some of the one-on-one advice we often provide:
- When you haven’t used your cold-water faucets for at least several hours, run them for two minutes before drinking the water or making coffee. When water sits in your pipes for long periods of time, home water quality can decline.
- As obvious as it might seem, don’t use hot tap water for drinking or cooking. Hot water dissolves contaminants and may contain metals, sediment and bacteria that build up in the water heater.
- Replace old household plumbing and potential lead sources. Replace galvanized plumbing with copper pipes and install “lead-free” plumbing fixtures that contain 0.25 percent lead or less.
- Routinely clean faucet aerators and replace them as needed. Sediment and metals can collect in the aerator screen.
Here’s one more thing you can do: contact Eagle Service Company for more information about our water-quality services. A whole-house water filter, for example, can provide clean, healthy water from every source in your home. We also install and maintain under-sink water filters – complete with their own dedicated faucet – so you’ll always have filtered water to drink and cook with.
