Reverse osmosis is the equipment for what you drink and cook with, and it is the only thing on this site that removes PFAS.
Ours is a tankless seven-stage build, 800 gallons a day, pH balanced, with no storage tank under the sink. It is included in every whole-home package we publish, and $700 installed on its own.
What follows is the careful version of the PFAS story for this metro, because there is a much less careful version circulating and most of it is being told by people selling filters.
EPA set a limit of 4 parts per trillion for PFOA and PFOS in April 2024, with compliance required by April 2029. EPA has proposed extending that to 2031 and rescinding four of the other PFAS limits. Both proposals are still pending and neither is law.
Charlotte Water, 2025 report
Charlotte Water 2025 Consumer Confidence Report
2024 UCMR5 sampling
Rock Hill 2024 · Fort Mill CY2025 · Two Rivers Utilities 2024
LCWSD
LCWSD EPA PFAS MCL statement, 10 April 2024 · LCWSD 2025 report
So the accurate summary is that PFAS in this metro is mostly present, mostly unregulated compounds, and mostly at low levels, with Indian Land’s source water as the one genuine exception. That is a more boring story than you will hear from most people selling water systems, and it is what the reports say. If you want PFAS out of what you drink regardless, reverse osmosis is the technology that does it. Not a softener, and not a standard carbon filter.
A house is either on city water or on a well, so there are two prices. They are the same in every house we install in, they are the same on the invoice, and they do not move because you seem interested or because it is a Friday afternoon.
A premium national dealer quotes $7,500 to $11,000 for a comparable full system in this market. Ours are $2,900 and $4,500, installed, published. We are not going to characterize that gap with an adjective.
Market survey of the Charlotte metro, July 2026, compiled from Angi, HomeAdvisor, HomeGuide and published Culligan, Kinetico, RainSoft and EcoWater dealer quotes
Custom is quoted, and it usually costs less. If your house needs less than the standard system, a drinking-water system but no softening, say, that is quoted on its own and it lands under the standard rate. The standard is a ceiling for a typical house, not a starting point.
Every price we publish, installed: $2,900 city mixed-bed system with RO · $3,500 dual-tank city system with RO · $4,500 well system · $2,300 coconut-carbon or $2,500 catalytic-carbon system with RO, no softening · $700 tankless RO on its own. See the full pricing page for what each rate covers and what it costs to own.
That stands against both rates, the $2,900 and the $4,500.
Published, installed, like-for-like, Charlotte metro. Show us a competitor’s own published installed price for a comparable whole-home system in our service area and we will beat it. It has to be a number they printed, not one somebody said in a kitchen, because a price nobody will print is not a price.
Reverse osmosis pushes water through a membrane fine enough to hold back dissolved contaminants that carbon cannot catch. It treats the drinking tap, not the whole house, which is why it sits alongside whole-home filtration rather than replacing it.
It removes PFAS, chlorination byproducts, dissolved solids and a long list of other dissolved contaminants at the drinking tap. It also removes dissolved minerals generally, which is why ours balances pH on the output rather than leaving the water flat.
It does not treat the shower, the washing machine or the ice line in the garage fridge. That is whole-home filtration, and on a well it is a bigger job than that. And it does nothing about hardness, which is a softener, which on city water here you very likely do not need.
Total dissolved solids is the reading that usually explains why the water tastes the way it does, and it is one of the five we take.
Pick a time, including weekday evenings and Saturday mornings. It takes about 45 minutes and it costs nothing.
Hardness, chlorine, total dissolved solids, pH and iron, read at your kitchen tap while you watch. You keep the readings.
The standard rate if the standard build is what your water needs, or a smaller custom number if it is not. Plus the running cost for the first year. Written down before we leave.
Usually inside the same week. Licensed install, tested on the spot, old equipment hauled away.
Yes. Reverse osmosis is the technology that removes PFAS at the drinking tap. A water softener does not, and a standard carbon filter is not the right equipment for it either.
Ours is tankless, at 800 gallons a day. That is enough flow to serve the tap directly, so there is no pressure tank taking up the cabinet under your sink and no stored water sitting in it.
It removes dissolved minerals along with the dissolved contaminants. Ours balances pH on the output rather than leaving the water flat, which is the usual complaint about RO water.
We give you the first year’s filter cost in writing at the test, before you decide anything, along with the same figure for the whole-home system.
Almost always, and more easily than a tank system, because there is no pressure tank. We confirm it at the test rather than at the install.
Tankless reverse osmosis is included in every whole-home package we publish. On its own it is $700 installed, seven-stage, no storage tank under the sink. The yearly filter set is $100 if you change it and $150 if we do.
Every town below has a different report behind it, so every page below prints different figures. Same two rates on all of them.
Takes about 45 minutes. You get the readings, the recommendation and the price in writing: the standard flat rate if the standard build is right, a smaller number if it is not, and nothing at all if you do not need us.
