Professional Water Treatment System Service Wichita
Cleaner, safer water for your home with professional system care.
What is the best Whole House Water Filter? That depends on each unique situation. We sell two top-of-the-line filter brands and can customize a solution to fit any customer's needs. Honest Water Filters provide best-in-class whole house carbon filtration and salt-free water conditioning. Novo Water Systems provides best-in-class resin Salt Water Softening, Resin Carbon Filtration, and Reverse Osmosis Systems.
We Offer the Top of the Line Water Filtration Solutions
At Bowers Plumbing Company of Wichita we have done our research on the best Water Filter Systems for your home. Novo is top-of-the-line salt-based water conditioning, and for water softening you can’t beat salt. Honest is top-of-the-line Salt Free Conditioning and best in the business for water filtration. On filtration you can’t beat Honest.
When we visit your home, we look at your plumbing layout, the age of your pipes, and any past issues so we can match you with the right equipment instead of a one-size-fits-all setup. Many Wichita homes have older galvanized or mixed plumbing materials, which can affect how a filter or conditioner performs over time. By checking water pressure, visible scaling, and fixture condition, we can explain whether you would benefit most from conditioning, softening, filtration, or a combination system. If your existing equipment is acting up, we can also discuss water treatment system repair options so you can decide whether a repair or an upgrade makes more sense.
Enjoy cleaner, healthier water throughout your home—call Bowers Plumbing, Heating & Air at (316) 799-3212 or reach out online to schedule your water treatment consultation today.
Water Treatment System Repair and Maintenance
Whole house filtration and conditioning equipment works quietly in the background, so it is easy to overlook small warning signs that something is wrong until the water in your Wichita home suddenly tastes, smells, or looks different. You might notice soap not lathering like it used to, spots on dishes returning, or a drop in water pressure around the same time your system starts cycling more often. Regular checks of salt levels, filter change dates, and any error lights on the control head can help you catch issues early before they affect every tap in the house. When problems do show up, we can walk you through the likely causes and the most practical next steps so you are not guessing about what your system needs.
During a service visit, we can test your water, inspect the media tank, verify valve settings, and look for leaks or bypass issues that may be letting untreated city water flow into your fixtures. Because Wichita and surrounding communities can experience seasonal changes in water demand and treatment practices, it is helpful to have your equipment checked on a regular schedule rather than waiting for a full breakdown. If you are unsure whether it is time to replace a component or keep it running, we can explain the costs, expected lifespan, and performance tradeoffs in plain language. That way, any water treatment system repair or replacement decision you make is based on clear information about what will work best for your home.
Wichita Water Treatment Systems Explained
Different homes use different types of water treatment systems depending on their water source and specific water quality needs.
Below is a comparison of common water treatment solutions used in Wichita homes.
| System Type | Purpose | Key Benefits | Maintenance Needs |
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| Water Softener | Removes hard minerals such as calcium and magnesium | Prevents scale buildup, improves soap efficiency, protects plumbing | Periodic salt refilling and system checks |
| Carbon Filtration System | Removes chlorine, odor, and certain contaminants | Improves taste and smell of water | Filter replacement and routine inspections |
| Reverse Osmosis System | Removes dissolved solids and contaminants | Produces highly purified drinking water | Membrane replacement and filter changes |
| Whole Home Filtration | Filters water entering the entire house | Cleaner water for bathing, cooking, and cleaning | Filter changes and periodic system checks |
| Sediment Filtration | Removes sand, rust, and particles | Protects plumbing fixtures and appliances | Regular filter replacement |
Each system requires proper service to maintain peak performance. Professional maintenance ensures these systems continue delivering clean, safe water throughout your home.
How Safe Is Wichita’s Water?
Wichita ranks in the 18th percentile for safest water to drink. With an average of 2PPM chlorine, the water treated in any municipality is treated to an acceptable standard. Wichita adds chemicals such as chlorine to kill germs and bacteria in the water. While chlorine is a good thing to kill those contaminants, it can also be harmful to not only you but your plumbing as well, contributing to issues like leaking toilets and dripping faucets.
There are also multiple byproducts from this disinfection in the water that have been identified as potential carcinogens. A whole house filter will not only treat your drinking water but your bathing, cleaning, and cooking water as well. Why treat your drinking water when you know that your toddler drinks handfuls in the bath as well? A whole house filtration system will protect your entire house.
Why Choose Bowers Plumbing, Heating & Air for Water Treatment System Service Wichita
Choosing a reliable plumbing company ensures your water treatment equipment receives proper care and service.
Homeowners trust Bowers Plumbing, Heating & Air because of their commitment to quality workmanship and dependable service.
Experienced Plumbing Professionals
Skilled technicians understand how water treatment systems operate and how to maintain them properly.
Reliable Service
Prompt and professional service helps ensure your water treatment system continues functioning efficiently.
Focus on Customer Satisfaction
Providing dependable plumbing solutions helps homeowners maintain clean and reliable water.
Let our team find the best solution for your home. With decades of experience, we'll treat your home like our own. Get in touch today!
What Makes Bowers Different?
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Family Owned & Operated Local BusinessAs a third-generation family-run company, we consistently offer dependable, high-quality service backed by decades of knowledge and experience.
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Leading the Way with Advanced SolutionsWe provide ongoing training on the newest technologies and practices to our team of professionals so we can continue providing quality service for years to come.
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Customer-First Values & ServiceYour time & comfort are important to us. At Bowers Plumbing, Heating & Air we prioritize open communication with firm time windows, warrantied services, and make sure to treat your home with the utmost respect.
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Providing Reliable Services Since 1955We are a local company proudly built on the tradition of integrity, honesty, and compassion for our friends and neighbors. We pride ourselves on the support we give our customers and employees.
We Can Help Solve Your Home Water Filtration Issues in Wichita
Why Novo Water Conditioning Products
Novo Water Conditioning has been helping solve water problems for 50 years. With their top-of-the-line products that are manufactured in house, you will not want to go back to dealing with untreated hard water. Bowers uses Novo for the salt/resin line of conditioning products. When it comes to soft water, you cannot beat the use of salt. Salt-based systems remove the hardness out of the water for the best possible soft water. With Novo’s high-efficiency salt systems, you will typically use less salt than with many comparable brands.
Here are some common signs you may need service on your water treatment equipment:
- Noticeable change in taste, odor, or appearance of your tap water compared with how it was right after installation.
- Recurring spots and scale on dishes, shower doors, and fixtures even though you are using the same soaps and cleaners.
- Drop in water pressure at multiple fixtures, which can indicate a clogged filter, media issue, or valve problem inside the unit.
- System running more often than usual, making new noises, or showing error codes on the display panel.
- Visible leaks or salt issues around the brine tank, drain line, or nearby plumbing that were not present before.
In many Wichita neighborhoods, hard water shows up as cloudy glassware, soap scum that is tough to scrub away, and scale buildup on fixtures that shortens their lifespan. A properly sized Novo system can help reduce those frustrations while supporting the plumbing and water-using appliances you rely on every day. When a softener or conditioner is not working like it should, we can inspect the valves, resin, and brine settings and talk through water treatment system service Wichita homeowners can count on to restore performance without unnecessary replacements.
Improve the quality of your home’s water with professional treatment solutions—call Bowers Plumbing, Heating & Air today at (316) 799-3212 or contact us online to schedule your water treatment service.
How We Support Our Community
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How safe is Wichita drinking water?
As far as city water is concerned Wichita does a very good job treating its water, ranking in the 18th percentile for safest water to drink. Any municipality though is only treated water to minimum acceptable standards and chemicals such as chlorine are added to the water to kill germs, viruses, and bacteria such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, norovirus, and much more. While this is a good thing it also leaves us with chlorine and other byproducts in the water. Municipal water can end up with as much as 2 PPM of chlorine in the water. For reference, Swimming pools are recommended to stay between 1 and 3 PPM. If you don’t want your kids to be drinking pool water then you may also want to second guess your tap water as well. Chlorine is also the reason for the bad taste many people have when drinking tap water.
There are also multiple byproducts from this disinfection in the water that are known carcinogens. A whole house filter will not only treat your drinking water but your bathing, cleaning, and cooking water as well. Why treat your drinking water when you know that your toddler drinks handfuls in the bath as well? A whole-house filtration system will protect your entire house.
The other need for water conditioning is the protection of your plumbing. Are you tired of leaking toilets, dripping faucets, and having to replace your water heater? A water softener can take those problems away. Hardness in the water made up of calcium and other minerals sticks to your piping and fixtures and creates what is known as sediment. This creates pinhole leaks and destroys your appliances and fixtures. A softener will remove the hardness from the water and protect your home plumbing. Along with the protection you will get smooth water that will feel amazing and reduce your cleaning needs. After installing a water softener you may be able to reduce your soap usage up to 70%. Are you tired of finding water spots on your shower walls, curtains, dishes, and appliances? A softener will take these away by removing the hardness that causes them. The cost of appliances alone will pay for the price of the water softener. (Note: A softener will not repair existing damage to the plumbing system. It will just keep further damage from appearing.)
- 18th percentile in the nation for safe drinking water
- Why would it be unsafe then you ask? Municipalities do great at getting the water distributable but it is left to the homeowner for point-of-use filtration.
- Things such as Arsenic, Bromate, Bromodichloromethane, Dibromochloromethane, and many other contaminants can be found in the water.
- The only way to ensure your home's water is safe is to treat it at the entry to the house with your own filter.
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What are the types of drinking water contaminants?
- Sediments – sand, rocks, and other minerals broken up in the water.
- Heavy Metals – manganese, lead, arsenic, chromium and copper
- Chemicals – aluminum, ammonia, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chloramine, chromium, copper, fluoride, bacteria and viruses, lead, nitrates and nitrites, mercury, perchlorate, radium, selenium, silver, and uranium
- Bacteria – Shigella, Escherichia coli, Vibrio, and Salmonella
In general, most consumers have common tap water contaminants that fall into a few simple categories with Sediments, Heavy Metals, Chemicals or VOCs, and Bacteria. While not contaminants, there are also some additives that can affect the taste or smell of your water as well.
One of the ways treatment facilities clean up your water is with Chlorine and Chloramine, two common secondary disinfectants. When too much is in your tap water, carbon filters can bring those levels down quickly. Sediments like rust are also easy to deal with, and something every whole house filter system should take care of.
Heavy metals can occur naturally from erosion but are also a byproduct of industrial waste and old pipes inside and outside of your home. Lead is the most common, but Arsenic, Chromium, Copper, and Cadmium are a few other metals that could be present in your water. If you live near factories or farmland, herbicides and pesticides can leech into the water supply as well.
Bacteria can be difficult to treat, along with viruses and cysts. While it depends on the type of microorganism you’re dealing with, whole house systems with UV filters can deal with things carbon can’t touch. Alternatively, a filter that works wonders on bacteria may not do a great job at dealing with heavy metal or chlorine as that depends on your system as a whole.
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What contaminants do you need to remove?We recommend removing as many harmful contaminants as possible. Let me ask you this? Would you rather be drinking and bathing in dirty contaminated water or smooth clean water that keeps you healthy? Would you rather your water purify you or give you the need to detox?
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What makes up a water filter?
Different filters can be made of different things. In general, filters are made up of:
- Pre Filter – String or other types of filter to get the big stuff out. These filters are usually pretty cheap and designed to keep your expensive filters working hard on the small things without getting clogged by all the larger sediment and sand.
- Carbon Filter – All of our filters will be made of activated carbon designed to remove chlorine, byproducts, and other contaminants in the water.
- Resin and salt – In your softener there will be resin beads that attract the hardness minerals and remove them from the water. The salt chamber leans the resin beads during backwash so they can keep working to full capacity for a long time.
- Ro System has a very thin membrane along with other filters that take everything out of the water. RO systems don’t discriminate on what they take out. They even take out everything that is healthy in the water leaving you with pure water.
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What about hard water?
- Hard water is what clogs your pipes gunks up your appliances, stains your shower walls, causes pinhole leaks in your copper lines, and much more.
- Water hardness is measured in grains per gallon. Over 3 grains is considered slightly hard, while over 7 grains is considered hard water. Wichita city water comes in between 8 and 9 grains hard.
- This means that your water needs softening for the sake of your plumbing system and water-using appliances.
What Our Customers Are Saying
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"Their service was excellent!"I would recommend Bowers Plumbing. They scheduled us for repair right away. The technician wears booties over shoes, so there was no tracking on the floor. They repaired my toilet and left the area cleaned up. Plus we have a one-year warranty!- Pamela S.
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"Will get plumbing needs done by them!"We had a Bosch dishwasher that we bought from Costco and they said they would install and they didn’t. We contacted Bower’s Plumbing and showed up on time and prepared. David the plumber was super nice and knowledgeable.- Tony C.
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"Great service!"Tylor replaced a sewage lift in my basement. He was quick, courteous, and organized with his work. I’m very satisfied with Bowers and recommend them to anyone needing plumbing repair work.- Chris K.
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"Very impressed!"They assessed the problem and gave me an estimate with two choices. They began fixing it, had a bit of a change, and let me know of that change right away. I was so impressed with their manners, professionalism, and ability to fix the problem right away.- Valeria W.
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"Couldn’t express my gratefulness enough!"My outside cooling system went out and I called and was scheduled for the next day after calling other companies. Even on my scheduled appointment day, I was pushed up and Robert was sent to me and he is a GOD SEND!!- Kierra W.
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"We would choose them again and again!"Andrew and Wyatt were wonderful!! Very polite and took the time to work with us and explain what to expect. This was an extremely dirty job and they worked very hard to make sure the dirt and dust did not enter the rest of the house.- Diana S.
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"Well done!"Bowers and their repair technician provided excellent service communication, and punctuality, were knowledgeable, and were responsibly efficient. I do not hesitate to recommend Bowers Plumbing for peace of mind of a competitively-priced job.- Debbie D.
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"Robert was an awesome technician."He took the time to discuss everything with my elderly father to ensure he understood it. Did a great job of keeping his work areas clean and dry while it was raining and even hauled off the old AC filter... much appreciated! I would recommend them!- Mark G.