Best Dam Water
Whole-house filtration and reverse osmosis for South Florida homes. A phone call, a written price, and a local plumber does the install. We built the pricing around leaving out the costs that never reach your home.
Move your mouse or drag a finger through the water. Then scroll to see what's inside.
Part of a home service bill goes to selling the job.
We left out two costs, and they both have to do with selling. Neither goes into your system or your install, so we don't build them into how we price.
How pricing worksCut
In-home salesperson
A trip to a kitchen table costs money, and that money has to come from somewhere. We do it by phone and photos.
Showroom
No lobby, no display wall. You don't need to walk past a tank to understand a price.
Kept
- The system. The equipment that goes in your home.
- The plumber. A local plumber, paid to do the install properly.
- The people who run the job. Someone in-house who picks up the phone.
All your water comes in through one line.
Every shower, every faucet and every load of laundry starts at the same pipe. Here's a typical tank-style filter, opened up so you can see how one works.
What's inside a typical tank-style filter
- What can go on a main line. A whole-house system is plumbed in where water enters a home. This is one common layout, a tank-style filter. Keep scrolling and it opens up.
- Pressure tank. Tanks like this are commonly fiberglass-reinforced, and they hold the media under a home's water pressure. Cartridge-style systems use housings instead.
- Control valve. On tank-style systems, a valve routes water through the tank and back out to the house. On backwashing models it reverses the flow to rinse the bed.
- Top basket. A slotted basket keeps media out of the valve. On backwashing models, the empty space above the bed gives the media room to lift and rinse.
- Copper-zinc media. Some tank systems add a copper-zinc redox layer paired with the carbon. Many don't. It depends on the model.
- Catalytic carbon. As a media type, carbon holds chlorine on its surface, and the catalytic type also speeds up the reaction that breaks down chloramine. Contact time matters, which is why bed size comes up so often.
- Gravel bed. In tanks that use one, gravel goes in first. It supports the media above it and helps water spread evenly as it collects at the bottom.
- Bottom basket and riser. The bottom basket lets water in and keeps media out. The riser tube is the white post through the middle, and it carries the water back up to the valve.
- How water moves through it. In this layout, water goes into the valve, down through the bed, then back up the riser and out to the home's plumbing. In a real tank, the layers sit together.
Three kinds of system, for three different jobs.
A whole-house system sits on the main line, so water passes through it on the way to the fixtures after it. If you only need the small one, that's what we'll tell you.
No appointment. No kitchen table.
- 1
You call. A person answers.
Tell us about your home, your water bill and what you're hoping to change. There's no salesperson coming over and no appointment to sit through.
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You send a few photos.
Your main line for a whole-house job, or your open sink cabinet for reverse osmosis. Anything unusual goes to the plumber before we put a number on it.
- 3
You get one written price.
Equipment and install on one page, plus what would change the number. Take as long as you want with it.
- 4
We schedule when we have a real date.
Once you approve, we line up a local plumber. We only give you a date when that plumber has confirmed it. We'd rather be honest about it than promise and reschedule.
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A local plumber does the install.
An independent, licensed local plumber does the work. We manage the job, which means the scheduling, the paperwork and the phone call if anything goes sideways.
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You keep one number to call.
If something's off after the install, you call us and not a stranger. We'll also tell you what upkeep your system needs, so it doesn't catch you by surprise.
Built around what keeps a customer happy.
What keeps a customer happy is rarely complicated: a straight price, someone who answers, and a job that gets finished. What a customer never needed is paying for the sales process.
So Eric built this company without the expensive parts. No in-home salesperson. No showroom. The aim is simple: good systems, one written price, and one company that stays on the job until it's done.
Eric, founder
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Call for your price(505) 640-0371Can't call right now? Send your detailsEducational sections describe typical equipment in general. They don't describe a specific product, and nothing here claims that any product removes any particular substance.