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Chlorine Taste and Odor in City Water

The utility has to put it in. You do not have to drink it.

The short answer

The chlorine you taste and smell is put in by your utility because it is required to disinfect the supply, and it is still there when the water reaches your tap. Catalytic activated carbon removes it, along with the chloramine many utilities use instead, and in a SolarPure system that carbon treats every fixture in the house rather than one faucet. The system is $3,295 installed in Central Florida.

Why chlorine is in your water in the first place

Your utility is required to disinfect the water before it reaches you, and chlorine is how that is done across most of the country. It is doing a necessary job on the way to your house. The problem is that it is still in the water once it arrives.

What it does once it gets to you

It is the taste in a glass of water straight from the tap, and it is the smell that comes up out of a hot shower as it comes out of solution. It is also what dries skin and hair out over time, which people tend to blame on everything except the water.

How carbon takes it out

Catalytic activated carbon is the first stage in a SolarPure system for exactly this reason. Ordinary carbon handles chlorine but does little against chloramine; catalytic carbon breaks both down. The chlorine and chloramine, and the taste and odor they carry, come out before the water reaches any fixture in the house, so the shower and the kitchen tap are both handled.

  • A chemical taste in water straight from the tap
  • A smell that comes up strongest in a hot shower
  • Dry skin and hair that never quite resolves
  • Coffee and cooking that taste like the water they were made with
Installed pricing

Both of our systems come at one published price, installed

There is no starting-at number here and no range that moves once somebody has seen the inside of your house.

SolarPure Whole Home

$3,295
Installed

Softening for the whole house together with whole home carbon filtration.

Runs on its own solar panel. No outlet needed.

Most popular

SolarPure Complete

$3,995
Installed

Everything above, plus ultrafiltration drinking water at your kitchen sink. Most people take this one.

Runs on its own solar panel. No outlet needed.

Financing is available and you can apply by text and have an answer within minutes.

Installed by Sunologi, Inc., licensed Florida contractor CBC1261200.

Already have a quote?

If another company has already quoted you $5,000, $6,000, $7,000 or more, read this before you sign anything.

Most of that number never touches the equipment that ends up in your garage. Before you pay for a single piece of a water system you are paying four other people: the representative who drove out to your house, the commission he earns the moment you say yes, the setter who booked him the appointment, and the national advertising budget that put his company in front of you in the first place.

We do not employ a single one of them. All four of those costs came out of the business, and they came off your price. The system we install does the same job in the same house, it is made in America, and it runs on its own solar panel rather than on your power bill.

A typical in-home quote
$7,000
Arrived at after a three hour presentation at your kitchen table
→
SolarPure, installed
$3,295
Or $3,995 with ultrafiltration drinking water at the kitchen sink

Installed by Sunologi, Inc., licensed Florida contractor CBC1261200.

Read us the quote you were given. Our price is already on this page, so the call is not about our number. We will go through theirs with you and tell you how much of it is equipment, how much is commission and advertising, and what it will keep costing you after the installer leaves. It is a quick call, with no salesperson. If you’d prefer someone to come out first, we’ll arrange a visit.

Already have a quote? Read it to us.

We will tell you what that number is actually paying for. It is a quick call, and nothing gets scheduled unless you want it to.

The difference

Why ours runs on the sun

Every SolarPure™ system carries its own solar panel. That one design choice is why it costs nothing to run and why it goes places other systems cannot.

1

Its own solar panel

The panel ships with the system. Nothing to wire into the house, nothing shared with another circuit.

1 hr

Of daylight a day

That is all it takes to recharge the long life NiMH battery backup that holds your settings.

$0

On your power bill

It adds nothing to what you pay the utility, and it installs where there is no outlet.

What is in the tank

Four media beds and four fail-safes

These are the same media a water treatment professional would specify to build this properly.

Catalytic activated carbon, the stage 1 media inside a SolarPure system
Stage 1

Catalytic activated carbon

Catalytic carbon filters out the chemical chlorine and chloramine the city adds, clearing up the bad taste and smell that come with them.

Ion exchange resin, the stage 2 media inside a SolarPure system
Stage 2

Ion exchange resin

Ion exchange resin pulls out the hard minerals that leave white crust on your faucets and shower glass, and that wear out your water heater.

KDF, the stage 3 media inside a SolarPure system
Stage 3

KDF

KDF helps reduce heavy metals and the iron some older city distribution mains can contribute, the kind that shows up as orange staining, and helps keep bacteria from growing inside the tank.

Garnet gravel, the stage 4 media inside a SolarPure system
Stage 4

Garnet gravel

Garnet gravel sits at the bottom and keeps water moving freely through the tank, helping hold your water pressure where you are used to it.

Build and fail-safes
Self-cleaning control valve
Cleans itself for maximum performance and long service life. High flow rates keep pressure up when more than one fixture is running.
Automatic bypass during regeneration
The system steps aside while it regenerates, so the house never loses water mid-cycle.
Tank-within-a-tank construction
Fail-safe by design rather than by warranty claim.
Brine float overflow protection
A float shuts the brine tank down before it can overflow onto the floor.
Solar panel and NiMH battery backup
One hour of daylight a day keeps the battery charged and the program settings held.
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is the chlorine in city water dangerous?

It is there to keep the supply safe and it is regulated. Most people take it out because of the taste and the smell and what it does to skin and hair, not because of a safety worry.

Does a pitcher filter do the same thing?

A pitcher treats what you pour into it. A whole home carbon stage treats every fixture in the house, which is the difference between filtered drinking water and a filtered shower.

What does a SolarPure system cost?

SolarPure Whole Home is $3,295 installed and SolarPure Complete, which adds three stage ultrafiltration drinking water at the kitchen sink, is $3,995 installed. Both are installed prices rather than starting points.

Does somebody have to come to my house before I get a price?

No. A quick phone call is all it takes. If you’d prefer someone to come out first, we’ll arrange a visit. Nobody comes to sell you anything.

Does SolarPure use salt?

Yes. SolarPure uses salt as part of the softening process, because hardness minerals have to be removed, not wished away. The difference is in the system design, sizing, media, setup and support. The goal is better Florida city water, less scale, less chlorine impact, and a system built around the conditions found in Florida homes.

Are store bought water systems really cheaper?

Sometimes the equipment looks cheaper upfront, but the shelf price is not the installed price. Installation, materials, upgrades, financing, service limitations and extra retail program layers can raise the real cost. The better comparison is total installed value, local water fit and long term support, not just the price on the box.

I already have a quote from another company, so can you tell me whether it is fair?

Yes, and it is a quick call. Read us what you were quoted and what they proposed to install, and we will tell you plainly what that number is actually paying for, side by side with our published price.

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Not sure which system to choose? Wondering what installation involves? Call and we’ll talk through what makes sense for your home. If you’d prefer someone to come out first, we’ll arrange a visit. When you’re ready, we can schedule your installation.

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The original solar-powered whole home water treatment system. Softer, cleaner, better-tasting water at every tap, powered by the sun.

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Sanford, FL 32771

Phone: +1 877 709 7873

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