The Whole House Water Filtration Choice: Entry Point Systems Explained

How Do I Choose Point Of Use Water System Options?

Ever wonder what's lurking in your tap water and how it affects your entire home? The latest Mountain View Pure Podcast tackles the often-overlooked importance of point-of-entry water filtration systems that treat every drop flowing into your house.

Host Dan Toth takes listeners on a revealing journey through water quality challenges that vary dramatically depending on your water source. City water arrives with excessive chemical sanitizers—often 15 times more than necessary—irritating skin during showers and damaging fixtures throughout your home. Well water presents its own complex puzzle, with issues ranging from acidity and sulfur (so potent it can "chase you out of your house") to iron that stains everything it touches and extreme hardness levels that damage appliances and create stubborn soap scum.

What makes this episode particularly valuable is Dan's practical breakdown of the hidden costs of poor water quality. Most homeowners don't realize they're already paying a steep price for untreated water through increased cleaning product expenses, frequent fixture replacements, and shortened appliance lifespans. With concrete examples from across the Tri-Cities region, Dan demonstrates how a whole-house filtration system typically pays for itself within five years, offering what he calls "a 100% return within 60 months"—an investment opportunity you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else.

Beyond the compelling financial case, the podcast addresses the significant quality-of-life improvements that come with properly treated water: better-tasting drinks, reduced skin irritation, easier cleaning, and the peace of mind that comes from knowing every faucet, shower, and appliance in your home is receiving healthy, properly filtered water. 

Ready to transform your home's water quality? Call or text 423-218-9361 for a free consultation and discover why great water truly is the foundation of a great life.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Mountain View Pure Podcast,
where your journey toexceptional water quality begins
.
Here's your host, dan Toth,owner of Mountain View Pure
Water.
They proudly serve homeownersin the Tri-Cities and beyond,
offering advanced water and airpurification solutions that
support a healthier lifestyle.
The mission is clear helpingyou get great water.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Thinking of purifying all the water flowing into your
home.
Let's break down the point ofentry systems that offer whole
home peace of mind.
Welcome back everyone.
Skip Mon Money, co-host, slashproducer, back in the studio
with Mr Dan Toth, who is theowner of Mountain View Pure
Water.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Dan, how's it going?
Doing well, Skip.
How are you today?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Doing fine, doing just fine Always a pleasure.
Your deep dive into cleanliving keeps getting better with
every episode.
So, speaking of clean living,for those of us who don't have a
filtration system in our home,what point of entry options are
available when purchasing awater purification system?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
The first thing we need to know is are you on city
water or well water?
That makes a big difference.
City water comes to us fairlyclean and clear.
It has a good amount ofpressure on it because it has to
go to multiple homes, and sothe city has certain standards
that it has to abide by to sellus that water.

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So we have a kind of a itvaries a little bit, but pretty
much a certain type of waterthat's coming to the house, and
then we have well water, whichcan be completely varied.
I found water that was let's see, we'll just talk about our area
Down in Flag Pond.
I found water that was acidic,around a 5 or 5.5 pH.

(02:00):
It had almost nothing dissolvedin it, so it was soft water and
it had sulfur, and so there's alot of problems with that water
.
The acidity of the water wouldcause it to eat up pipes and
plumbing and fixtures, and theamount of sulfur was enough to

(02:23):
chase you out of your house whenyou turn the spigot on, and so
certain things have to be doneto remove that.
It didn't need a softener, butwe did need to make sure that it
was safe.
So water that seems fairlyclean can have lots of different
issues.
Up in the Sir Goinsville area,rogersville area, we can get a

(02:44):
lot of iron and sulfur.
Up there Down in Mossheim moreGreenville area, we can find
hard water.
Hard water that's 40, 50, 60grains hard.
So these are some differentdifficulties in well water that
you'll run into as a homeownerand besides the water quality

(03:05):
you'll have.
Wells produce different volumeof water.
Gallons per minute productionis what we think of, and if your
well doesn't produce a lot ofwater, it's.
It can be difficult to treatthe water because water
treatment requires filtration.
The filtration equipmentrequireswashing and

(03:25):
self-cleaning, regeneration, andif you don't have the right
volume of water to actuallyclean the system, the system's
not going to work as well foryou.
So there's a lot of differentissues that we run into.
Well water has typically alower pressure on it.
What water pressure on wellwater is?
Somewhere between I've seen itas low as 30 PSI and as high as

(03:51):
probably about 70, whereas citywater comes into the house at
sometimes over 100 PSI.
And so with well water we wantto make sure that we boost it to
the point where it's usable inthe home and it can regenerate.
A system for filtration On citywater.
Exactly the opposite.
We want to reduce the flow, thepressure on it, so it does not

(04:13):
break things.
A lot of your fixtures andappliances have switches that
are built to about 55 psi.
If you have a high PSI coming in, you can break things.
It can cause your washingmachine to start running out
water when it's not turned on.
It can cause your ice machineto break and leak.

(04:35):
It can cause your your toilets,the seals and things like that
to be ruined as well.
So those are just waterpressure issues before we even
get into filtration.
But let's just take well waterfiltration first.
If you have well water that hasiron in it or sediment or

(04:57):
hardness or sulfur, or evenmaybe methane nitrates Nitrates
are typically found wherethere's a farm or industrial
runoff as fertilizers andorganic waste that can seep into
wells wells.

(05:19):
If you have a lot of nitrates,you want to make sure that the
well isn't positioned tooclosely to an industrial or farm
field or your septic, becausethat water can leach into the
well water and make it unsafe todrink.
So those are some things.
That preliminary testing awater treatment professional
stopping out to your housetaking a look at things, testing
the water and assessing it onsite is really necessary before

(05:44):
somebody can ever quote you onwhat kind of water quality or
equipment you'll need.
Yeah, there's a lot of thingsthat go into this, which is why
I'll often have people call meover the phone and they'll ask
for quotes, and they'll ask forcomparative quotes.
And hey, what would you chargeme to do this?
And I can't possibly give themprices because I don't even know

(06:04):
what they need.
So we have to go on site andtest the water.
We have to find out theirspecific water quality
information before we know whatto offer them to fix their
issues.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Do you charge to do an assessment?

Speaker 3 (06:20):
No, we don't charge to do the assessments.
What we do is we try to staywithin about an hour's drive of
Johnson City and that way wefeel pretty confident that we
can take care of those customersand service them very well over
the lifetime that they need theequipment.
But we don't charge for theactual testing that we do.

(06:41):
So we come out, we assess thewater quality, we assess the
plumbing situation, make surethat we can install something in
the first place.
It's kind of a bummer when youtalk to somebody on the phone
and you're like hey, I know, Ican fix this issue for you, and
you get to their house and theydon't have a place to put
equipment.
That's a pretty big issue.

(07:02):
You can't filter the water ifyou don't have a place to
install equipment.
And so having a proper wellhouse that's large enough to
hold equipment, or a placeinside the home, a basement,
garage or even a maintenanceroom often it turns into
something being installed in thelaundry room, people can
actually have a better waterquality, and these are things

(07:24):
that often aren't thought aboutuntil I stop out and bring up
that question of hey, wherewould you put this?
Hey, where does the water comeinto your house?
People often don't even knowwhere the water comes in.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Wow, well, it's interesting not to go back to
pressure, but I live prettyclose to the pumping station in
the Nolichucky River that gotwiped out during the flood
during Helene, and when theybrought a pump back online it
blew out every single toilet inmy house.
I had to replace the mechanismin all of them because they were
all leaking and running, andyeah, so, been there, done that,

(08:05):
but anyway, interesting.
So that is something that youdon't think about, because you
got me thinking okay, wherewould I put a filtration system?
I would hope I could put itunder a cabinet near the sink in
the kitchen or somewhere, butprobably not.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Well, that brings us to the real issue with this
episode is the differencebetween point of entry and point
of use.
So we're talking about point ofentry and that would be mainly
the whole house water filtration, house water filtration.
So you'd want the main linethat comes into the house to be

(08:41):
filtered so that every toilet,sink, shower, faucet, dishwasher
, laundry machine all of theplaces where you'd get water
throughout the house to have abetter quality of water than
what's actually being sent toyou, whether it's from the well
or from the municipal watersupply.
And so that's what point ofentry is.

(09:01):
We want to treat all the waterto a certain level.
If you have sediment in thewater, we don't want that
plugging up your faucets anddishwasher jets and your shower
head.
We want to clean that outbefore it gets there, and so you
want a sediment filter to makesure that gets removed.
If you're on well water and youhave iron, you don't want that

(09:23):
in the house.
So you have to have somethingto remove that iron before it
comes in, because it will stainand destroy everything it
touches.
If you have a sulfur smell, youwant to make sure that you
remove that smell before itstarts coming out your faucet
when you turn it on, because noone wants to take a shower in
that water.

(09:43):
If you think about the waterthat's coming from the city, you
know they put a bunch ofsanitizer in across the board.
Now I think almost all theutility companies are using a
bromide for sanitization and andthey put an excessive amount in
.
It's only necessary to haveabout 0.2 parts per million to
keep the water sanitary, andmost of the municipal water

(10:07):
supply has somewhere aroundthree or four parts per million.
So 0.2 is necessary, and threeto four is what's typically in
the water that we're getting atour house.
And that's because, you know,as the community grows, as we
add more lines of service, theyhave to make sure the water

(10:29):
stays sanitary all the way tothe last house, and so, because
of that burden that's on them,they're going to add more than
would be ideal just to make surethe water stays sanitary.
So we don't want to have allthat in the water that we're
showering in.
A lot of people find out thattheir skin might get extra red

(10:51):
from the shower.
It's not because the water istoo hot, it's because there's a
lot of chemical in that waterand so having a carbon filter to
remove that for the entirehouse is a really great way to
help keep those things that aretoxic to the body away from the
body and you want to get rid ofthat smell.
Nobody likes to get a cup ofwater and it smells like a

(11:12):
swimming pool.
That's not something that weenjoy, and so those are sorts of
things that whole housefiltration can help remove, as
well as most people almosteverywhere.
I think.
I'm trying to think of a coupleareas around Johnson City area.
There's some Jonesboro.
Some of the Jonesboro water isnot very hard two or three

(11:36):
grains of hardness and thatmeans that they can have a water
softener or not have a watersoftener.
It's kind of a decision thatthey can make, but I would say
that anywhere else, almosteverywhere else in our area the
Tri-Cities has a water hardnesslevel of above three grains of
hardness.
Some of it's all the way up to10, like up and along the

(11:59):
Virginia line, from Rogersvilleall the way to nearly Bristol.
Water hardness is pretty high.
And for your home, what is waterhardness?
Water hardness is minerals thatare dissolved in the water.
So it's calcium, magnesium,could be lead, could be iron,
things like that that they'redissolved in the water and when

(12:20):
you mix soap in with that itmakes a soap curd or soap scum
and you probably see that onyour shower, you see it on your
dishes.
That's why people use jet dryand other things like that.
And so when we don't removethat hardness, we end up using
more chemicals in our life tokind of offset the results or

(12:44):
what that causes, and so we havea lot more cleaning to do.
We have to have harsherchemicals and that causes us to
spend more money.
So having untreated water isexpensive and it costs money
also to put the equipment in totreat the water.
So as far as expense goes, it'skind of like this is going to

(13:06):
cost me in to treat the water.
So as far as expense goes, it'skind of like this is going to
cost me money to treat the water, but it's also going to cost me
money to not treat the water.
So with treated water at leastyou get a good quality of life
and a better water quality.
That's more kind to your sensesand feel, to your body.
But when you don't treat thewater it's going to cost you
more in soaps and cleaningproducts and you'll replace

(13:27):
appliances and faucets andfixtures more often.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
And I would imagine over time that would be more
expensive than just getting afiltration system.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
It absolutely is the whole house water treatment
system.
If you've got your standardfamily of four, typically the
water treatment system pays foritself within about five years
of ownership.
So that means that if you stayin a house for 10 years, you
literally the system has paidfor itself twice in that
timeframe.
So let's just imagine, forinstance, you wanted to invest

(14:04):
some money.
Skip, you're making a lot ofmoney and you want to invest
some money.
So you go to an investmentprofessional and you say, hey,
where can I get 100% return inthe next 60 months?
And they say, good luck.
Well, with me that's aneveryday situation, every single
day.
I can give 100% return within60 months.

(14:26):
Whoever invests in watertreatment can typically make
their money back in savings overwhat they are already spending
in their life, and then, afterthat's paid for itself, then
you'll be saving that much everysingle year.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Wow.
So in addition to beinghealthier and putting less
toxins in your body, you cansave money too.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
And it's a great standard of living.
Can you imagine having lessskin irritation from
contaminants that are left onyour body and having a better
quality of water that you enjoyto drink?
We were talking about thisbefore the show, and those are
things that everybody wants, butit costs money to have them.
Well, what people don't reallyrealize is it costs money to not

(15:14):
fix the water as well.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Very good, very good.
Good to know, dan.
Thanks for another deep splashsorry for the pun into smarter
water choices and appreciate youall walking us through the
point of entry landscape.
We'll see you next time when Ithink we'll talk about oh gosh,
not point of entry but point ofuse, point of use, point of use,

(15:38):
pou.
All right, man, have a greatrest of the day.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
You too, thanks, skip have a great rest of the day,
you too.
Thanks, skip.
Thank you for joining us on theMountain View Pure podcast.
When you're ready to transformyour home's water and air
quality, call or text423-218-9361 for a free in-home
consultation.
For more information, visitmvpwaternet.

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Remember, great water is thefoundation of a great life.