St. Petersburg water runs about 9.7 grains per gallon. Here is what that means for your pipes, your appliances, and your skin, and what it takes to fix it for good.
St. Petersburg water runs about 9.7 grains per gallon, according to published St. Petersburg water quality reporting, which puts hardness near 166 ppm. Anything above 7 grains per gallon is classed as hard water, so St. Petersburg is not a borderline case.
St. Petersburg buys most of its water from Tampa Bay Water, a blend of groundwater, surface water, and desalinated seawater. The groundwater share carries the hardness, and the blend is why taste can shift noticeably through the year.
A SolarPure system is sized to your water, not to a city average. St. Petersburg is on treated city water, so hardness and the taste of disinfection are the two things a system has to solve. The SolarPure control valve is self-cleaning, and it is built to keep water, salt, and electricity use down over the life of the system.
Every install starts with a free in-home water test. We measure what is actually coming out of your tap, show you the numbers, and size the system to them. No cost, no obligation, and no system is quoted before the water is tested.
SolarPure is Florida’s original solar powered water treatment system, and it is owner operated by someone with more than thirty years in the water treatment industry, going back to 1993. That matters in St. Petersburg for a practical reason: sizing a system to water this hard is a judgment call, and it is the part most companies get wrong by selling one configuration to every house on the street.
SolarPure is sold and installed through Sunologi, part of the AllSolar family of companies in Sanford. Same office, same crews, same standard, and one phone call reaches all of it.
A softener and a filter are not the same thing, and most homes that are unhappy with their water need both. The softener takes out the calcium and magnesium that cause scale and spotting. A whole house filter is what handles taste, odor, chlorine, iron and sediment, and it goes in at the same point of entry so every tap in the house is covered. If your complaint is how the water tastes or smells rather than what it leaves on the glassware, filtration is the part you actually need.
Softening and whole house filtration treat every tap. Reverse osmosis is the separate step for drinking water specifically: an under sink system that pushes water through a fine membrane and holds back the dissolved solids the whole house stages leave behind. It is what people mean when they say they want bottled quality water without buying bottles.
SolarPure installs a reverse osmosis drinking water system alongside the whole home system when that is what a St. Petersburg home wants. The free water test is what settles which combination you actually need, instead of selling all three by default. See reverse osmosis drinking water systems for how it works.
There is no honest flat price, and any company that quotes one before seeing your water is guessing. Cost tracks three things: how hard your water actually is, how many people and fixtures the system has to keep up with, and whether you are on city water or a well. A well that also needs iron and sulfur handled is a different build than a city-water softener. SolarPure tests first and prices second, and the test is free either way.
If you already have a softener and it has stopped making soft water, that is usually the control valve, the resin bed, or a salt bridge in the brine tank, and it is often a repair rather than a replacement. See water softener repair for what tends to fail and what it takes to fix.
SolarPure covers St. Petersburg and the surrounding Pinellas County communities, including Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Seminole, Dunedin, Palm Harbor, Tarpon Springs, Gulfport, St. Pete Beach, and Safety Harbor.
St. Petersburg water runs about 9.7 grains per gallon, per published St. Petersburg water quality reporting, which puts hardness near 166 ppm. Water above 7 grains per gallon is classed as hard, so St. Petersburg is solidly in the hard range. Your own tap can still differ from the city average, which is what a free water test settles.
At about 9.7 grains per gallon, most St. Petersburg homes see scale on fixtures, spotting on glassware, more soap use, and shorter appliance life. Whether you need a softener alone or softening plus filtration depends on your specific water, which is what the free test determines.
It depends on your water and your home, which is why SolarPure tests first and quotes second. The free in-home water test carries no cost and no obligation, and you get the numbers whether or not you buy anything.
Yes. SolarPure covers St. Petersburg and the surrounding area, including Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Seminole and more. Call 877-709-7873 or request a free water test.
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