Fully Installed Whole-Home Water Filtration in Raleigh

Our standard whole-home package for Raleigh city water is $2,699 installed, covering point-of-entry filtration for every tap plus reverse osmosis drinking water at the kitchen sink. Priced separately, a whole-home softener or carbon filter runs $1,500 to $3,500 installed, an under-sink reverse osmosis system $350 to $900, and a full multi-stage well system $4,000 to $8,000 or more. Those are installed prices. Where a job lands inside its range comes down to sizing, what your water actually contains, and how your plumbing is laid out. The Raleigh cost guide breaks down what moves a job within its band.

No. If you are on Raleigh city water, your utility publishes an annual water quality report, so what is in your supply is already public and we can go through it with you on the phone and give you a price. If you are on a private well, the water is untreated and unregulated, so pricing depends on the actual numbers for your well, hardness in gpg, iron in mg/L, and so on. Either way there is no two-hour demonstration and no obligation.

Usually because of how the system was sold, not what the system is. A $7,000 to $10,000 quote from a national brand generally covers good hardware plus an in-home sales visit, a commission, and dealer markup on the brand name. We are not claiming better equipment than the big names. We are saying that for most Triangle homes the same job can be done for less. If you already have a quote and any water numbers that came with it, send both over and we will price the same system stage for stage against it.

Raleigh city water comes from Falls Lake and meets federal drinking water standards, but it is disinfected with chloramine that leaves a chlorine-like taste and smell, and the wider Cape Fear basin that feeds the Triangle carries PFAS and 1,4-dioxane. Most homeowners who filter do it for taste and for peace of mind on those contaminants. A carbon system handles taste and chlorine at every tap; reverse osmosis handles PFAS and dissolved solids at the drinking tap.

If you get a monthly water bill from Raleigh, Cary, Durham, or a town utility, you are on treated city water. If you have your own well (common on the rural edges of Wake, Chatham, Franklin, and Johnston counties), your water is untreated and unregulated, so knowing what is in it and treating it are up to you. We handle both, and the right system is completely different for each.

Softener salt is $50 to $150 a year depending on how much water the household uses, and you can buy and load it yourself at any hardware store. Carbon and sediment filters need media or cartridge changes on a schedule, and reverse osmosis membranes get replaced periodically. None of that is locked behind a service contract with us. We tell you the real maintenance cost before you buy so there is nothing to discover later.

The rotten-egg smell is hydrogen sulfide gas, and the orange staining is dissolved iron, both extremely common in Triangle well water. We remove them with an air-injection oxidizing filter that pulls the iron and sulfur out before they reach your fixtures, no chemicals to buy and refill.

Raleigh is home base, and we serve the whole Triangle: Cary, Apex, Wake Forest, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Morrisville, Knightdale, Durham, Chapel Hill, Clayton, and Pittsboro, on both city and well water.