No, I don't think anyone can help you.

This is a complete mess.

A 3 stage 20" filter for a whole house - nope. It will be clogged in no time and for no good reason. Your toilets don't need filtered water. Neither does your laundry. Neither does most anything else.

UV treatment - absolutely un-needed for city water. It's chlorinated and biologically safe with residual disinfecting to boot unless you have regular "boil water" warnings because of pipe ruptures.

Very hard water: How hard is it in grains per gallon? Get a Hach test kit. Don't waste your time with anything using color matching - they are worthless.

"Highly treated with chemicals" Really? Like what? Exactly? Do you know or just guessing?

Everything you touch, breath, drink, eat, drive, smoke, smell is made with a bunch of chemicals. You are a bunch of chemicals.

It's not city water that scares me, it's well water that never gets tested and never gets treated that scares me. City water is regularly tested.

So look - forget all the junk that you have read on all of the water treatment websites. Seriously, what you are putting in your head is far more polluted than your water.

-If you have hard water, get a water softener - we are talking ion exchange (salt) - there is no other kind of water softener. You need to know exactly how hard that water is in grains per gallon - let us know your test results.

-if you want to remove chlorine and some VOC's and generally want things to smell and taste better a carbon filter on your drinking water is the way to go. Your toilets don't need carbon filtered water. If your municipality is using chloramine, that requires catalytic carbon. There's a very nice full-flow filter that's NSF certified to do that - again for your drinking water.

-If you have nitrates, lead or other issues that are not removed by carbon, then a reverse osmosis system for drinking water may be called for. They waste a lot of water and require maintenance for a small amount of water... but they work.

Ask your water supplier why you have 35 psi water ON AVERAGE. Because 30-35 is minimum. Don't guess, put a reliable pressure gauge and measure your static pressure when there's no water being used.

No assumptions and I absolutely stand behind what I said. I still do. If your water is so bad that it's causing toilets to not work well, your 20" filter will last days, max. In a residential setting, about your only option for reducing TDS is reverse osmosis. I call BS on everything you've just said..

You didn't hire me - and so you don't get to dictate that I answer the question that you posed.

For all the bluster about certified labs, I see no actual data. No data in your original post either other than "average of 35 psi" - If you don't don't like assumptions then post accurate and actionable data. My guess is that you just want someone to confirm what you've already decided to do - you don't really want the input from someone who actually has some knowledge about these things.

"Booster pumps" are the right answer only in very specific circumstances. It's rare to see that in a residential system with municipal water.

"Low water pressure" is usually the result of pressure drop due to a restriction. You can't fix that with a booster pump. A booster pump in the wrong situation may cause other homes on the main to lose water volume - or worse go negative pressure and thereby introduce bacteria or backflow. Find out why your average pressure is at the minimum. The only place I've seen legit booster pumps is moving domestic water past the 6th floor on a high-rise or at the bottom of a hill on a municipal water supply where the water consumers were at the top of the hill. I have seen storage tanks combined with a pump when the water source was very limited - such as a restricted water main.

You clearly don't have to do anything - but when you are ready to resolve your water issues then you will have to deal with actual data. I'm sorry you don't like my answers - but my posts are intended as much for other readers as the original author.

Hello Richard,

I am very much interested in your experience with the whole house filtration system. We are building a house in SW Florida where the water tastes and smells very bad and is on top very hard ruining the appliances. Therefore, we want filtered water throughout the house. Can you recommend the system you have and if so what is the brand please? Thank you for your help.

Kathrin B. We are in exactly the same situation and are also in SW Florida. Have had to replace DW, fridge, hot water heater, and washer because of the build up due to the water.

@Angela Young and @Kathrin Bodenschatz

This isn't about "what brand". That would be like asking what brand of medication -- without diagnosing an illness.

You need to test your water, determine the type of treatment, then shop brand.

This could be as simple as a water softener to remove hardness, and a carbon filter to improve taste and odor. Or you may have an issue with something like sulfur. Get your water tested or use a trusted professional.

Did you install the booster pump? Did the filtration system decrease your water pressure?