The same equipment.
Half the quote.
Water softeners, whole-home filtration and reverse osmosis drinking water across the Wichita metro. People tell me they were quoted $6,000 to $8,000 for the same class of system. Mine costs what it costs because there is no showroom, no fleet and no commissioned salesman in it — just me.
- Free water assessment
- One all-in number
- You deal with the owner
- Local to Wichita
What people tell me they were quoted
$6,000 to $8,000
for the same class of system
Mine is $2,999 installed — whole-home softener, filtration and reverse osmosis, taxes in.
About half the people I sit down with bring this up before I do. So here is the honest answer: the difference is not the equipment. It is the showroom, the fleet, the franchise fee and the salesman whose commission goes up with your number. I do not carry any of those.
If something about my equipment were worse, I would rather tell you now than have you work it out in year three.
What is actually in Wichita waterWhy this matters
You already know something is off with your water
Almost nobody calls us because they read a water quality report. They call because of one of these four things.
Spots on everything
Glasses come out of the dishwasher cloudy. Shower doors film over a day after you clean them. That is dissolved calcium left behind when hard water dries.
Skin and hair feel wrong
Soap does not rinse properly in hard water, so it stays on your skin. Dry, itchy skin and flat hair are the most common things people describe when they call.
Your water heater is dying early
Scale settles on the element and insulates it, so the heater burns more to do less. It is the single most expensive thing hard water quietly does to a house, and it does it years before you notice.
And your water is about to change
Wichita has built a new 120-million-gallon-a-day plant to replace one that is eighty years old. It is not in service yet, and the start date has moved more than once. The eighty-year-old plant can only treat a blend of the reservoir and the aquifer; the new one is built to run either source on its own. When it starts, what is in your pipes changes, and nobody is going to send you a letter about it.
Our systems
Built for the water you actually have
City water and a well are different problems. A 1,500 square foot house and a 4,000 square foot house are different problems. We size the system to the house and what we find, not to a price list.
The whole-home system
One price, and it does not move because you are on a well. Most companies charge more for a well build; we do not.
Starting at
$2,999installed
One all-in number, taxes included.
Most popularStandard Whole-Home Softener + Filtration
48,000 grains. Soft water and chlorine filtration in one tank.
Handles the two problems almost every home around here has at once: hard water that scales your pipes and water heater, and chlorine that makes water taste like a swimming pool and dries out skin and hair. One tank, one valve.
Starting at
$2,999installed
One all-in number, taxes included.
Best sellerHW800 AlkaPro Tankless RO
800 gallons a day, 7 stages, no bulky tank under your sink.
Tankless reverse osmosis that filters down to 0.0001 microns — fine enough to take out lead and other heavy metals, dissolved solids, chlorine and common contaminants. Because it's tankless, you get water on demand and your under-sink cabinet back.
Priced after the water assessment
Dual Tank — Well Water
Built for iron, sulfur and that rotten-egg smell.
Well water is a different problem from city water. This system pairs a softening tank with a Katalox Light tank to pull out iron, manganese and hydrogen sulfide — the cause of the smell, the orange staining and the metallic taste. Two ProValves, one per tank.
Priced after the water assessment
Whole Home Systems
Treats every drop entering your house — showers, laundry, dishwasher, ice maker. This is what fixes hard water, scale and chlorine.
View systemsDrinking Water Systems
Reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink for the water you drink and cook with. Removes what a whole-home system isn't designed to catch.
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Add Ons
Extras that solve a specific problem — remineralization, UV disinfection.
View systemsHow it works
Four steps, and the first two cost nothing
I would rather tell you that you do not need a system than sell you the wrong one. A system that does not match your water is a system you stop trusting in about a year.
- 1
You call and we go through your water
On the phone, in a few minutes. I pull the published data for the supply on your street so you see the real figures rather than a sales sheet. It is free and it stays free whether you buy anything or not.
- 2
I tell you what it means
Hardness, iron, sulfur, nitrate if you are on a well - in plain terms, with what it is doing to your water heater and your fixtures, and what happens if you leave it.
- 3
I size the right system
Based on what we found, the size of the household and where the equipment can physically go. Sometimes that is less than you came in expecting. Occasionally it is nothing.
- 4
One number, then it goes in
Taxes included, nothing added afterwards. And you have my number for the life of the system, because I am still going to be the person who answers it.
The question everybody asks
“What’s wrong with it at that price?”
Nothing. It is the same class of equipment the big companies fit — same softener, same carbon filtration, same reverse osmosis. What is different is what you are not paying for. Here is the actual arithmetic.
No showroom
There is no building with my name on it that somebody has to heat, light and rent, and no three-hour appointment at your kitchen table either.
No commissioned salesman
Nobody earns more by closing you higher, because there is nobody but me. That is why there is no sitting at your kitchen table for three hours.
No franchise fee
The national brands pay a cut upstairs on every system. That money comes from somewhere and the somewhere is your invoice.
No fleet
No wrapped trucks sitting in a yard, no fleet insurance, no dispatcher. One van, mine.
No middle man
You are not passed between a call center, a commissioned rep and a scheduler. The person who looks at your water is the person who quotes it and the person you call afterwards.
One all-in number
Taxes in, install in, no line items that appear later. You get the figure before anything is ordered and it is the figure you pay.
Still not sure?
Ask me what the equipment is and look it up.
I will tell you the make, the grain capacity and the warranty on the phone. It is the same answer either way.
Why this market is different
Nobody can tell you how hard your water is from a map.
The city draws from Cheney Reservoir on the surface and the Equus Beds aquifer underground. USGS has measured both. At Cheney, hardness across 44 samples ran from 130 to 220 mg/L as calcium carbonate - about 8 to 13 grains per gallon - with a median of 170. In the Equus Beds, the monitored index wells sit higher: 190 to 300 at the deep wells and 340 to 410 at one shallow well, which is 20 to 24 grains. Those are source waters, not what comes out of your tap, but they are the reason nobody can honestly quote you one city-wide number.
And it is about to change again. The city has built a new 120-million-gallon-a-day plant to replace one that is eighty years old, and it is not treating the city’s water yet — it was due to start in April 2025 and the date has moved more than once. The eighty-year-old plant still doing the job can only treat a blend of the two sources. The new one is built to run either on its own. That is good engineering and good drought planning, and it also means the water in your pipes is going to move once it starts, on a date nobody has been able to hold to yet.
Outside the mains it is a different question entirely. The Kansas Geological Survey sampled 297 wells, test holes, springs and municipal systems across Sedgwick County and found hardness from 50 ppm to 2,211, chloride from 4 to 1,695 and nitrate from zero to 567. That survey is from 1965, and we are not quoting it as today’s number — we are quoting it because the ground has not moved. If you are on a well, what is under your land is its own question.
So call me and we will go through it. It costs nothing, it stays free whether you buy anything or not, and it takes a few minutes rather than an evening.
Wichita runs on two different waters, and they do not measure the same
USGS SIR 2023-5037 (Cheney Reservoir, 2014-21) and USGS SIR 2010-5023 (Equus Beds)
The blend you get is about to change, and it has not changed yet
KWCH, 4 October 2024 and 6 January 2026; KNSS, 28 July 2026
Two houses a mile apart in Sedgwick County can be nothing alike
Kansas Geological Survey, Geohydrology of Sedgwick County, 1965
On a private well, nobody is testing it but you
K-State Research and Extension MF3655 and KDHE private well guidance
Where we work
The Wichita metro, and the towns around it
Six counties. Newton and Hesston at the north end, Winfield and Arkansas City at the south, Hutchinson out west, El Dorado and Augusta out east.
Questions
The things people ask us
Anything we have not covered, just call. There is no phone tree.
How hard is the water in Wichita?
There is no single number, and anybody who gives you one is reading it off another softener company's website. Wichita blends two sources. USGS measured hardness at Cheney Reservoir across 44 samples between 2014 and 2021 and got a range of 130 to 220 mg/L as calcium carbonate - about 8 to 13 grains per gallon - with a median of 170. The Equus Beds aquifer, the other source, measures higher at the monitored wells: 190 to 300 at the deep ones and 340 to 410 at one shallow one, which is 20 to 24 grains. Those are source waters rather than your tap. And the city has a new plant built to run either source on its own, which is not in service yet - so the blend is going to move once it starts. Which is a long way of saying: come and look at mine. That is what the free assessment is.
Why is your price so much lower than Culligan or US Water?
It is the question I get asked most, and it is a fair one. People tell me they were quoted $6,000 to $8,000 for a system. Mine is not half the equipment - it is the same class of softener, the same carbon filtration, the same reverse osmosis. What is missing from my price is a showroom, a fleet, a franchise fee and a commissioned salesman who makes more the higher he closes you. I run a lean shop and I answer my own phone, so none of those costs are in your number. If something about my equipment were worse, I would rather tell you now than have you find out in year three.
What does a whole-home system cost?
One all-in number, taxes included, and you get it before anything is ordered. I would rather give you the figure on the phone than publish one here that turns out not to fit your house - reverse osmosis and the larger builds depend on what the assessment finds. Call and ask. It is a short conversation.
What happens at a free water assessment?
It happens on the phone, and it takes a few minutes. I keep the published water data for the supplies around here, so I can tell you what is actually in the water on your street and show you where the figure comes from rather than read you a sales sheet. Then I tell you what you need, which is sometimes less than you expected and occasionally nothing. No pressure, because I do not have a quota.
Do I need a softener, a filter, or both?
They solve different problems. A softener takes out the calcium and magnesium that cause scale, spotting and the film on your shower door. Carbon filtration takes out chlorine and the taste that comes with it. Most of the whole-home systems I fit do both jobs in one tank, which is usually the right answer in this market - but that is what the assessment is for, not a guess from a website.
I am on a private well. Can you help?
Yes, and start with a test before you buy anything from anybody, including me. KDHE does not require private well owners to test and no utility is doing it for you. KDHE and K-State both recommend testing every year for coliform bacteria and nitrate. Nitrate matters in farm country: the limit is 10 mg/L and it has no taste and no smell. The Kansas Geological Survey sampled 297 sites across Sedgwick County and found hardness anywhere from 50 to 2,211 ppm - which is why nobody can tell you what is under your land without looking.
Who actually turns up?
Me. You deal with the owner from the first phone call through to the install, and you have my number afterwards. That is the whole company, and it is the reason the price is what it is.
Free water assessment
Find out what's actually in your water
Call me and I will go through the published data for the supply that actually serves your street, then tell you what, if anything, you need. Free, and there's no system that fits every house.
- Free water assessment, no test kit theater
- One all-in number, taxes included
- You deal with the owner