Whether a Waco or McLennan County home needs this depends on which system serves it. Waco delivers surface water from Lake Waco disinfected with chloramine, which averaged 2.81 ppm across 2025, with calcium of 44.9 to 45.7 mg/L and magnesium of 4.23 to 4.25 mg/L. Woodway is a different picture again: Trinity Aquifer wells reporting average total hardness of 66.46 mg/L as CaCO3 and average sodium of 185.93 mg/L.
A whole-home setup sits on the main line where it enters the house, ahead of the water heater:
Pricing follows the assessment, because the right system depends on what your water report says and on how your house is plumbed. You get the figure before any work starts, never after. Flexible financing available, no credit check.
The system is connected at the main line, usually a utility room or garage job. If your house turns out to be a harder setup than it looked, you hear the adjusted number before anyone starts, not once the work is underway.
A softener needs salt kept topped up and checked every few months. Reverse osmosis filters get swapped on a schedule. We will walk you through what your setup needs and what it costs to run before you decide anything.