PLUMBING · WATER FILTRATION
Chlorine taste at the tap. Scale crusting the showerhead. Lead concerns in an older home. Caspian designs and installs the right water treatment for your house — whole-home carbon filtration, reverse osmosis at the kitchen tap, UV sterilization, and softeners for hard water. We're independent, not tied to a single brand, so we recommend what actually fits your water and your budget.
From a single under-sink RO unit to a multi-stage whole-home system, Caspian sizes and installs the equipment that actually solves your water problem — not whatever a sales rep was incentivized to push.
Point-of-entry carbon tanks that strip chlorine, chloramine, and that "pool" smell from every tap, shower, and appliance in the house.
4 and 5-stage under-sink RO systems. Removes lead, sediment, chlorine, and dissolved solids — bottled-water quality at your kitchen tap.
Inline UV lamps that inactivate bacteria, viruses, and cysts — standard on well water, optional add-on for city water when you want belt-and-suspenders.
Ion-exchange softeners sized to your hardness reading. Stops scale on fixtures, extends water-heater life, and makes soap actually lather.
Air-induction and oxidizing filters for rural and well-supplied homes — stops orange staining and rotten-egg smell before it hits your fixtures.
Engineered trains — sediment + carbon + softener + UV + RO — designed around your water test results. One install, one warranty, one service contact.
Toronto's tap water is safe by every regulatory standard — but "safe" and "what you actually want flowing through your house" are two different things. Here's what's in it.
The City of Toronto disinfects with chlorine and chloramine — necessary to keep pathogens out of the distribution system, but they're what gives tap water that "pool" taste and dries out your skin. Carbon filtration strips both. The water tastes noticeably better within a glass or two of the change.
GTA tap water averages about 120 mg/L as calcium carbonate — moderately hard. That's the chalky white buildup on showerheads and glass doors, the scaling inside your tankless heat exchanger, and a noticeable cut to your soap and detergent efficiency. A softener fixes all three.
Homes built before 1955 likely have a lead service line running from the city main to your house. The City of Toronto runs a service-line replacement program for the public side, but the private side is the homeowner's responsibility. Until that's done, a certified lead-reduction RO at the kitchen tap is the right answer for drinking and cooking water.
Even on clean municipal water, you'll get periodic sediment slugs after a watermain break, hydrant flushing, or upstream work. A point-of-entry sediment filter (5–20 micron, with a clear housing so you can see it) catches it before it lands in your aerators and washing machine inlet screens.
Don't pay for treatment you don't need. Start with the symptom — we'll size from there. These are ballpark installed ranges for typical GTA homes.
Reverse osmosis, under-sink
Whole-home carbon (point-of-entry)
Water softener (ion exchange)
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Tell us what you're noticing — taste, smell, scale, staining — and we'll recommend the right treatment for your house. No high-pressure sales, no proprietary cartridge lock-in. Upfront pricing, in writing.