Every part of a Pacific Water Co system is individually NSF certified: the control valve, the pressure tank, the softening resin, the carbon, and the gravel bed underneath it. Nothing is a mystery blend preloaded overseas and dropped into a box, which is how a lot of national brand equipment reaches a driveway.
That matters because what goes into your tank is what decides everything you will actually notice. How soft the water feels. Whether your pressure holds when two showers run. How many years pass before anything needs attention. We publish exactly what is inside, because the inside is the product.
One tank softens and filters every tap in the house, hot and cold, kitchen and shower and laundry alike. We set it wherever your main line makes sense: against an exterior wall, the garage, or a utility closet. Here is what is in it.
The valve meters your actual water use instead of running on a clock, so the system regenerates only when it needs to and wastes no salt or water. Long term memory holds your program settings, with a 72 hour backup if the power drops. The valve is covered for five years.
10% crosslinked resin, made in the USA. The units sold at big box stores typically run 4%. The heavier crosslink resists chlorine and oxidation, so the bed lasts years longer, and it carries high flow soft water through the house with no loss of pressure.
Premium granular activated carbon from Jacobi, made from coconut shells grown in arsenic free soil. It takes out chlorine and chloramine, plus VOCs, PFAs and the chemicals and heavy metals that travel with them.
An NSF certified gravel bed supports the resin above it and spreads water evenly across the full width of the tank. That even distribution is what prevents channeling, the narrow shortcut water will otherwise carve through the media and quietly stop treating anything.
Not every home wants a softener. Each of these goes in on the main line, installed in a day, with the same NSF certified parts.
Softening and carbon each get their own tank, and both backflush themselves. The longest run between regenerations we build.
One tank of Jacobi coconut shell carbon that takes chlorine, chloramine, taste and odor out of every tap. No salt, no electricity, no wastewater.
Hard water leaves scale: the white, chalky crust on faucets and shower heads, and inside your pipes and water heater. This system keeps the minerals from sticking through the TAC process (Template Assisted Crystallization), with no salt, no drain line and no electricity.
A salt free tank stops scale, the white crust hard water leaves on fixtures and inside appliances. A coconut carbon tank takes out chlorine and chloramine. No salt and nothing to plug in.
One sheet per system. Full specs, operating requirements, and certifications. Open any sheet and save it as a PDF.
10" x 54", 48,000 grain
Spec sheet →
12" x 52", 64,000 grain
Spec sheet →Two tanks, 96,000 grain
Spec sheet →10" x 54", stops scale, no salt
Spec sheet →Two 10" x 54" tanks, no salt
Spec sheet →10" x 54", Jacobi coconut carbon
Spec sheet →
800 GPD, 7 stage tankless
Spec sheet →A whole home system makes every tap in the house better. The water you actually drink gets one more standard entirely, from a dedicated faucet at the kitchen sink.
What each stage does, what comes out of the water, and what the faucet looks like on your counter.
Every reverse osmosis system ships with a dedicated drinking water faucet, and all five finishes cost the same.
In hardware terms, largely yes. A water softener is a fiberglass tank, a bed of NSF certified resin, and a metered control valve. That is the whole machine. Ours are built from the better end of each of those, and we will put the spec sheets next to anyone's.
Most of the price spread in this industry is sales overhead, not better equipment. Commissioned reps, in home demonstrations, financing spreads, and the pressure to close on the first visit all get paid for out of the number on the contract. We do not run that model, so the number is smaller.
Usually not, and not for the reason most people assume. Every system we build moves 28 gallons per minute, more than double the industry standard, so the Standard keeps up with a house of any size. The bigger tanks simply hold more media, which stretches the time between regenerations and means you add salt less often.
If a larger unit would not change anything at your house, we will tell you that instead of selling it to you.
Firm pricing, no site visit required, installed in a day.