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A wall-mounted tankless water heater installed by SwiftPro in a Northern Virginia home

Plumbing Fixes

Whole-House Water Filter, Softener, or Neither: How to Tell What You Need

A filter removes what is floating in the water. A softener removes the minerals that make it hard. Neither does the other job, and…

A rebuilt copper plumbing manifold with a whole-house water filter installed by SwiftPro in a Northern Virginia basement

Plumbing Fixes

Hard Water in Northern Virginia: What the Number Is Where You Live

Fairfax Water, Arlington, Alexandria, Prince William and Loudoun each publish their own hardness number. What yours is, what it is doing to your water…

SwiftPro heating, cooling and plumbing van parked in front of a Northern Virginia home.

Water Quality

Choosing Between Water Filtration and Softening Systems

Fairfax Water, the utility behind the tap for roughly 2.2 million people across Northern Virginia, just gave county leaders a sobering update on PFAS…