Light commercial and engineered systems
Commercial water treatment for Treasure Valley businesses
Scale in an espresso machine or a water heater that runs all day costs real money. We survey your site, test the water and size a system to how your business actually uses it.
- Best for
- Restaurants, offices, salons, small multi-unit, shops
- Starts with
- Site survey and water test
- Installed by
- Licensed journeyman plumbers
Who we work with
Restaurants and coffee shops
Hard water builds scale inside espresso machines, ice makers, dishwashers and water heaters. Softening or scale control on those lines means less descaling and fewer spotted glasses.
Offices
Reverse osmosis at the break room sink or on a bottleless cooler line gives your team good drinking water without jug deliveries.
About drinking waterSalons
Soft, filtered water helps shampoo lather and rinse cleanly. It also keeps scale off bowls, sprayers and a water heater that works all day.
Small multi-unit buildings
One central system or one per unit, depending on the plumbing. We plan access so salt and service don’t mean knocking on every tenant’s door.
Ag and shop buildings
Shops, wash bays and outbuildings on a private well often deal with iron, sediment and hardness. We treat the water where it enters the building.
About well waterEngineered systems
Sized to your peak demand
A home-sized softener on a busy kitchen runs out of capacity fast. We size commercial systems to peak flow and daily gallons, so water stays treated through the rush.
Where downtime isn’t an option, we use twin-tank designs. One tank serves while the other regenerates, so treated water keeps flowing around the clock.
Pull out your equipment manuals too. Many espresso, ice and steam equipment makers list water quality requirements, and we design to meet them.
What we measure on a site survey
- Water
- Hardness, pH, TDS, nitrates, chlorine (lab test on wells)
- Flow
- Peak gallons per minute and daily use
- Plumbing
- Pipe size, pressure in psi, drain access
- Equipment
- Machines that need treated water
Commercial filters for iron, manganese and sulfur smell
Shops and businesses on a private well often deal with orange or black stains and a rotten-egg smell. Those come from iron, manganese and hydrogen sulfide. A commercial oxidizing filter turns them into particles that the media bed catches. An automatic backwash then flushes them to the drain.
We choose the media from your water analysis. Sizing depends on how much iron, manganese and hydrogen sulfide is in the water, your pH, your peak flow and the backwash rate the system needs. Models range from roughly 10 to 20 gallons per minute of peak flow.
On a well, the analysis comes from a certified lab test, which has a lab fee. Before we size a filter, the analysis needs to cover the items below.
- Iron
- Manganese
- Hydrogen sulfide
- pH
- TDS (total dissolved solids)
- Oil
- Tannins
How a commercial project runs
Site survey and water test
We test the water, measure flow and pressure, and note every machine and fixture that needs treated water.
Written design and quote
You get a sized design, an equipment list and a written price, with install timing talked through up front.
Install
Licensed journeyman plumbers do the work and schedule it to keep disruption to your business low.
Ongoing care
Salt refills, filter changes, annual service and retesting keep the system doing its job.
Get your building’s water tested
Tell us how your business uses water. We’ll test it, survey the site and give you a written quote.