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EcoWater Installed
Rachel and I try to be healthy and environmentally conscious so we decided we’d have a soft water system installed. For starters, do you have any idea what’s legally allowed in your drinking water? Put it this way, the LA-DWP site reads, “Is Los Angeles City water safe to drink right from the faucet? Probably yes.” I’m not kidding.
Second, the expense of buying all those bottles of water is nothing compared to the environmental expense. Not to mention that almost all of that bottled water is nothing more than tap water. I could go on and on.
Well, today EcoWater installed our new Water Refiner and Reverse Osmosis system, but not without a hitch (of course.) After they left, so did Rachel and I. When we returned we found water leaking out around the base of the foundation to the new chimney.
A few panicked phone calls later we got the installer to come back. Turns out that the vibration of cutting the pipes below had burst a leak in the pipe further down. The solution? Replace the entire pipe with a new copper pipe, from the front of the house all the way to the back. When all was said and done, we had a new refiner in the cellar, a reverse osmosis unit under the sink (with a line to the ice maker) and all the pure water we could drink.
