Your nationally certified Intermountain technician is educated and factory-trained in the correct selection, sizing and installation of water softeners, water conditioners, problem water filters and drinking water systems.
Decades of explosive population growth and drought conditions here in Utah have created extreme water chemistry conditions that now require specialized treatment methods to ensure your home is comprehensively protected.
Water in Utah is 3 – 5 times harder than the national average. This can pose serious problems for water systems that are mass-produced for the lowest national averages.Intermountain Soft Water has access to every kind of water softening, conditioning, filtration & purification technology available in the nation today. Our systems are specially designed to provide you with many years of trouble-free operation while producing good, clean water for your family.
Soft Water Systems
The oldest and simplest ion exchange technology, water softening can be defined as the removal of Calcium and Magnesium from water. Our water softeners are built to the highest standards here in Utah, to specifically address Utah’s unique hard water problems. Our soft water systems incorporate high efficiency up-flow regeneration and fractional brining technologies at high flow rates.
Intermountain Soft Water has been trusted by Utah homeowners since 1966 to provide them with great soft water at affordable prices.
Salt-Free Systems
Next-Scalestop will prevent hard water scaling, 99.6% as effectively as a salt-based water softener. This technological breakthrough is now allowing a no salt, no electricity, and no regeneration (waste water) conditioner to protect the piping, appliances, faucets, and fixtures in Utah homes from hard water scale accumulation. Intermountain Soft Water is the exclusive distributor of this technology in Utah. Next-Scalestop does not add to or remove anything from the water, retaining naturally occurring minerals like Calcium and Magnesium. Next-Scalestop water systems require virtually no maintenance, cost nothing to operate, use no electricity, waste no water and protect the environment while protecting your home from the harmful affects of scale.These systems will not significantly improve soap/detergent efficiency or effectiveness.
Chlorine, Taste & Odor Control This innovative filtration system effectively addresses a host of organic contaminants, with a special emphasis on Chlorine, pesticides, herbicides, chlorination byproducts and objectionable tastes and odors. The Simple Clean System is a truly novel invention, able to provide homeowners everywhere with a great water filtration system that can either be used alone or together with any water softener or conditioner for the ultimate drinking and bathing experience. The Simple Clean System is designed to provide you and your family with sweet, delicious, sparkling clear water throughout your entire home. Simple Clear addresses chlorine tastes and odors as well as particulates in your water utilizing simple eco-friendly natural methods. Simple Clean is surprisingly affordable and finally available in Utah.
If you’re looking for an affordable drinking water system, Intermountain can help you. We have most technologies available, including sediment filtration, rust filtration, carbon filtration, chlorine removal, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, pH neutralization, and reverse osmosis.
Problem Water Systems
Regardless of the water problem that you’re facing, Intermountain’s local team of certified water specialists can make your water better. Our expertise includes treating arsenic, iron, lead, corrosion, bacterial contamination, hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg smell), nitrates, and sulfates.
When designing a residential water system, many variables can negatively affect efficiency, performance and reliability, such as:-
High Water Hardness: The harder your water is the larger a system must be to remove contaminants effectively. However, if the system is too large it will waste significant amounts of water and salt while potentially allowing your system to be contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria. Utah’s water is some of the hardest in the nation.
High Water Pressure: Municipalities in the region could never have foreseen the massive population influx that has occurred. Cities are now forced to increase net pressures in piping distribution systems to push as much water as they can to new housing developments. High operating water pressure can raise attrition rates and cause premature failure in equipment. Utah water pressures are consistently high, especially in Utah, Salt Lake and Davis Counties.
Low water temperature: Although cold water usually tastes good, it is not good at all for water softening, conditioning or filtration equipment. Due to viscosity and kinetics issues, cold water has been proven to reduce system operating capacities by as much as 60%. Undersized systems will have a much greater chance of failing when the water temperature drops below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Utah’s long cold winters contribute to significantly colder water temperatures.
Chlorine & Chloramine: All ion-exchange based water softening, conditioning and filtration systems can degrade at a minimum average rate of 5% – 10% per year (attrition) due to chlorine alone. Structured Matrix media has a much slower chlorine attrition rate than traditional softening resins.
Iron & Heavy metals: Resin attrition is further exacerbated by factors such as high water consumption, inadequate regenerations, elevated chlorine levels, iron & heavy metals in water. Even after leaving the city plant meeting or exceeding EPA minimum standards, your water can absorb and collect contaminants such as copper, zinc, lead, rust, manganese and a host of others before it even reaches your home. These are obviously potentially harmful to humans, but even more dangerous to your water equipment unless it is specifically designed to address these threats.
Heterotrophic Plate Count Bacteria (HPC’s): Your city produces water that is free of bacteria and safe to consume. HPC’s can exist naturally in piping, water meters, fittings and regulating valves. These organisms are generally benign but can become the growth medium for potentially pathogenic bacteria. HPC’s can grow and colonize in a water system in as little as 4 days, even with chlorine or chloramine in the water. If your water system is not specifically sized & designed to address HPC growth issues, then your system could be a ticking bacterial time-bomb. Our systems are specifically designed to use Pur-Gard or Pur-Gard Plus as well as regenerating appropriately to mitigate this risk. Even when you’re away from home for extended periods of time, your Intermountain system will periodically clean and sanitize itself to ensure that you have clean, safe water waiting for your return without wasting salt.
When purchasing a water softener or other water quality improvement system from Intermountain Soft Water, you can be assured that the system is engineered to the highest standards, manufactured with pride in the United States, and maintained by Utah’s finest field-service team.
