Only after a test
Water treatment installation in Aurora
A filter or a softener is a response to a test of the water at the house, not to a slogan about the Front Range. This guide did not review an Aurora hardness report and will not invent one.
What has to be known first
Ask what was measured, at which tap, and on which utility. Aurora Water, a Denver Water distributor in Centennial, and Castle Rock Water are not the same supply. A whole-house softener on a house with a single bad faucet cartridge is the wrong tool. Taste or odor at one tap can be that faucet. Read fixture repair before you plumb a system into the main.
The installer should say what the unit removes, what it does not, where it sits relative to the water heater, and how it backwashes or regenerates. A drain for that discharge has to go somewhere allowed. Do not send brine into a place the city has not accepted. This page does not size the unit.
Not a repair of a unit you already own
If a softener is already in the garage and it is stuck, overflowing, or beeping, that is treatment repair. Selling a second system without saying the first one failed is a new sale. Pressure problems are pressure, not hardness.
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Questions to settle first
Is Aurora water hard enough to need a softener?
This guide will not say. No citywide hardness figure was used here. Houses on different utilities do not share one number. Ask for a test at your tap and for the contaminant the equipment claims to treat. A softener sold without that test is a guess.
Where should it connect?
The quote should say whether it treats the whole house or one faucet, and whether the water heater and the outside hose bibs are included or bypassed. A unit that backwashes needs a drain. Ask where that water goes. Ask them to write that limit into the quote before you compare it with another company.
Can it fix low pressure?
Not if the pressure problem is a regulator, a closed valve, or the utility. Treatment adds equipment. It does not replace a failed pressure valve. Measure the problem before you add a tank. Ask them to write that limit into the quote before you compare it with another company.
Is this the same as a backflow test?
No. Treatment changes the water you chose to treat. A backflow preventer keeps irrigation or other water out of the drinking supply. Different device, different letter from the utility. Ask them to write that limit into the quote before you compare it with another company.
