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Cloudy, metallic, smelly, spotted or gritty — each has a short list of causes and usually a free test you can run yourself before anyone quotes you equipment.
If the smell is only on the hot side, the water heater is involved — and the usual cause is a reaction between the anode rod and bacteria in the tank.
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A metallic taste usually means dissolved metal, and the two candidates behave differently. Which tap it comes from narrows it immediately.
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Chlorine, chloramine and chlorine dioxide taste different and need different filters. Using the wrong carbon is why some filters seem to do nothing.
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What the particles look like narrows the cause fast — white flakes, black specks and orange grit each point somewhere different.
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Two different problems look identical on a glass, and one is permanent. A vinegar soak tells you which you have in ten minutes.
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Fill a glass and watch which way it clears. That single observation separates dissolved air from the handful of things actually worth treating.
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Hardness, pH, chlorine and TDS, measured in your kitchen and explained on the spot. Free, and sometimes the answer is that you need nothing.
No charge, no obligation, and a real number rather than a regional average.
