2023年7月13日 · THD has settled many class action lawsuits surrounding the fact that these water tests were all phoney-baloney and just used as an opportunity to allow a THD “water softener sales partner” to enter the consumers home and sell overpriced ($10,000) water softening systems that were in many cases, if not all, totally unneeded.

2018年12月19日 · Get a test kit (it's literally just a little bottle with instructions). Go home and fill bottle with tap water. Return kit to lab and pay $75 for water test. Receive results. Act on results. Don't ever pay someone else to test your water; all they're doing is charging you twice what they paid for the test from the same lab you can go to yourself.

2022年8月28日 · Sounds like the first step in a water filter or softener promotion. They offer a free water test, find the chemicals that literally every water supply has, then tell you how awful your water is and how essential it is that you buy their expensive water treatment system, for your safety of course because your health doesn't have an upper limit on price.

2020年12月29日 · From what I understand most commercial places will test your water for free with the intent of trying to sell you something. The municipality I live in provides free testing fir things like E.Coli and the presence of fecal matter for …

2023年5月25日 · In the water treatment industry “water test”= “sales call”. It’s just a local water treatment company under contract with Home Depot and the two companies split the proceeds. As far as municipal water, it doesn’t matter if they use reverse osmosis.

2020年10月5日 · Also, feel free to run your faucet for a few seconds and grab a chlorine testing kit to test the level of chlorine within your water. Its usually insanely high. An RO system is also highly inefficient typically using 5 gallons of water to make 1 purified gallon, typically.

2023年2月22日 · Petco aquatics specialist here. We use the Tetra test strips. They aren’t always as accurate as the API Master Test Kit (which is either incredible or a complete waste of money depending on who you’re talking to) but they’re accurate enough if all you want to know is if you’ve got ammonia, nitrites and/or nitrates, or if your alkalinity might be contributing to pH …

2013年3月21日 · They test water for free, I don't see how it really is a scam unless he said "it's high, buy this to fix it". I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't accurate; they might be untrained, and you don't know how their test materials are stored.

2018年5月17日 · I recommend going to a reputable store that sells swimming pools/hot tubs. I work at one in Pennsylvania and we test water all the time. Just take about a cup and if it's a good place they will have a water lab. We test for chlorine, pH, hardness, alkalinity and a few other things. Gives out a ppm reading and takes about 2 minutes

2024年1月28日 · DO NOT DO IT. They will come to your house, test your water and try to get you to purchase a 10k water filter system for your home, and its a high pressure sales situation. If you feel like being rude and straight up kicking them out of your house after the test, then more power to you, but I HATE high pressure sales people.