Water treatment in Worthington, Ohio
Old houses, tight basements, and water that has been hard the whole time. How we fit a system into a Worthington home.
One of the oldest housing stocks we work in
Worthington is on municipal water, and that water is hard for the same reason all Central Ohio water is hard: limestone. What sets Worthington apart is the buildings. Around the Village Green and the older streets running off High Street there are houses considerably older than anything in the newer suburbs, and even the postwar sections have been on hard water for a long lifetime.
People here tend to care about their houses. They are not looking for the quickest thing that will fit. They want to know where the equipment will sit, how it will look, what it will sound like, and whether the plumbing work is going to be done neatly. Those are reasonable questions and we answer them on the visit.
Newer Worthington neighborhoods, and the stretch that crosses toward the Delaware County line, are more conventional installations. The water chemistry is the same either way.
Low ceilings and full basements
An older Worthington basement is often shorter than a modern one, with ductwork run wherever it could be run and a stone or block foundation that was never planned around a softener. The main may come in behind the stairs, and the nearest drain may not be nearby.
This is solvable, and it is routine for us, but it is the reason we look before we quote. A Kinetico system is not tall, and the twin tank design keeps the footprint compact, which helps in a room that is already carrying a furnace, a water heater and someone's storage.
There is also no cord. Non-electric equipment means we are not adding a receptacle to an old basement or running an extension across the floor, and it means the system carries on working when the power goes out.
A lot of Worthington calls are about a system that already exists
Three versions of the same call, and what we do about each.
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It came with the house
You bought the place, there is a softener in the basement, and nobody knows its age or history. We test the water before and after the unit, which tells us in a few minutes whether it is doing anything.
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It used to work
Soap has stopped lathering the way it did and the spotting has come back. Sometimes that is a repair and sometimes the unit has reached the end of its useful life. We will tell you which, and what each option costs, before we touch it.
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It is a Kinetico and it needs service
We service Kinetico equipment whether or not we were the ones who installed it, with genuine Kinetico parts. Details are on our services page.
Built to sit in a basement for a very long time
Kinetico softeners are made in Newbury, Ohio, about two and a half hours northeast of here. They are non-electric and twin tank, and they regenerate based on the volume of water the household has actually used rather than on a timer that fires whether you were home or not.
In a house that will still be standing long after all of us, that combination is the argument. Fewer things to fail, no circuit board, no clock to reset, and no overnight window where hard water slips past to the water heater.
More of the reasoning is on our why Kinetico page, and if the question is how to pay for it, that is financing.
Have your Worthington water tested
We look at the water and the space in the same visit, and it takes about twenty minutes. Call (614) 555-0100.