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Free In-Home Water Test

A free water test, at your kitchen table.

We come to your house and test hardness, iron, pH and TDS on the spot, plus a nitrate screening strip, then explain the results in plain English. No charge, no obligation, no sales pitch. Just a clear picture of what’s in your water and what, if anything, it needs.

Free in-home water test: test tube, dropper and test strip
What we test

Five numbers, and what each one means.

Hardness grains per gallon

Above 7 gpg is hard, above 10 is very hard by the USGS scale. Most homes around here are well past that.

Water softeners →

Iron parts per million

Staining starts at 0.3 ppm, the EPA secondary standard. Many local wells run 3 to 15 times that.

Iron Breaker →

pH acidity

Tells us whether iron treatment will work as designed, and whether a tannin filter will need pH correction.

Tannin filters →

TDS total dissolved solids

Everything dissolved in the water, which is what reverse osmosis removes. Also the before-and-after number for an RO system.

Reverse osmosis →

Nitrate screening strip

No taste, color or odor, so the strip is the only way to know it’s there. A positive strip gets a lab sample to set the exact number before anything is sized.

Nitrate filters →

What happens after you call

  1. 1Brian calls you back.Usually within one business day and we pick a day and time that works for you.
  2. 2We test your water at your house.Hardness, iron, pH, TDS and anything else your symptoms point to.
  3. 3You get a plain-English explanation and a real price.No pressure, no "manager approval" games.

Where we test

Portage, Kalamazoo and Southwest Michigan. We come to you.

PortageKalamazooVicksburgSchoolcraftMattawanPaw PawRichlandGalesburgAugustaPlainwellOtsegoThree RiversClimaxScottsTexas TownshipOshtemo

Questions we get at the kitchen table

Is the water test really free?

Yes. There’s no charge, no obligation and no sales pitch. If your water is fine, we tell you so and leave.

I’m on city water. Do I still need a test?

Probably. Kalamazoo and Portage city water is groundwater from the same aquifer the wells draw on, and the City of Kalamazoo’s own figure is about 20 grains of hardness per gallon, twice the level considered very hard.

What don’t you test for?

Bacteria and PFAS need a certified lab, and if your symptoms or your well’s history point that way we’ll say so and tell you how to get the lab test done before you spend anything on equipment. Nitrate we screen with a test strip at the table; if it shows up, a lab sample sets the exact number, and we remove it two ways: a whole-home nitrate filter or reverse osmosis at the tap.

What happens if the test shows a problem?

You get a plain-English explanation of what we found and a real price for fixing it, from the person who would do the work. No pressure, no “manager approval” games.

Sources
  1. U.S. Geological Survey, Water Science School, “Hardness of Water” (classification in grains per gallon).
  2. U.S. EPA, National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations, 40 CFR 143.3 (iron 0.3 mg/L).
  3. WMUK, “Why Kalamazoo’s water comes with minerals,” Jan. 14, 2016, quoting the City of Kalamazoo Public Services Department (about 20 grains per gallon).

Ready when you are

Pick a time that works and Brian will be there with the test kit.

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