Drinking water systems
Better water at the one tap you drink from most
A K5 Drinking Water Station lives under your kitchen sink and feeds its own faucet at the counter. It is the smaller half of most jobs we do, and often the half people notice first.
What it is
A separate system for the water you drink and cook with
A softener treats every drop in the house. A drinking water station does something different and narrower: it treats the water at your kitchen sink, and it gets its own small faucet on the counter so you always know which tap it is coming from. The two are not competing. Most of the homes we work in end up with both, because they are solving different problems in different places.
The change people report is almost always about taste. Coffee tastes like coffee instead of like the pot. Tea stops going cloudy. Ice comes out of the tray clear instead of hazy. Soup and rice and anything else made mostly of water quietly gets better, which sounds like a small thing until it happens in your own kitchen.
If chlorine taste or odor was one of the things that sent you looking, this is usually the part of the job that answers it.
The K5 Drinking Water Station. The cabinet goes under the sink, the faucet goes on the counter beside your existing one.
The practical questions
Where it goes and what changes in your kitchen
These are the things people ask at the counter once they have decided they want one. None of them are complicated, and all of them get settled before we quote it.
Under the sink, in the cabinet
The system sits in the cabinet under your kitchen sink. If that cabinet is already full of a disposal, a trash pull-out and thirty years of cleaning supplies, tell us at the visit and we will look at it together before anyone commits to anything.
One small faucet on the counter
The dedicated faucet needs a hole in the sink deck or the counter. Many sinks already have a spare hole under a cap or an old sprayer. If yours does not, we will tell you that at the visit rather than discover it on install day.
The refrigerator and ice maker
If you want the fridge and ice maker fed from the same system, say so at the visit. It depends on where the refrigerator sits relative to the sink, and we would rather price it with the rest of the job than treat it as an extra later.
Filter changes
Filters are a consumable. We keep your change on our calendar and call you when yours is due, so it is a phone call you receive rather than a chore you have to remember. You are free to say not yet.
A finished kitchen in Dublin. The small faucet on the left is the drinking water station.
Softener, drinking station, or both
They do different jobs, so the answer is usually both
People ask this one almost every visit, so here is the plain version. If your complaint is spotted glasses, stiff towels, scale in the kettle and soap that will not lather, that is hardness, and a softener is what answers it. If your complaint is how the water tastes and smells in a glass, a softener alone is not aimed at that, and the drinking water station is.
Doing both is common because most homes have both complaints. Doing one is completely reasonable too, and which one to start with is the sort of thing your test results answer for you rather than a decision you have to make in the dark.
What it costs
Drinking water systems start at $1,400 installed. Your exact number depends on what your kitchen needs, and you get it in writing before we leave. Like every quote we hand out, it is good for a year, so there is no version of this where a price disappears because you wanted to think about it.
Taste it in your own kitchen first.
We test at your sink, tell you which half of the job your water actually calls for, and put the price in writing.
Or call (614) 555-0100, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.