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Bob meets with Neil Sugarman to check out the water conditioning system and then goes on a tour of the Kinetico plant in Cleveland to see how the water conditioning system is made.
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Water Purification System and Kinetico Plant Tour

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" I think the first question I want to ask is why do we need to bother with water purification of your living in -- a greater metropolitan area. Well it's really going to help the equality of pure. -- as far as protecting your investment. And we can also treat the drinking water. To improve its pace then. Well the big question is how does it all work you're saying we've got two different components went for drinking water right. And one for. For a what are missing are softening. -- this unit here okay and this is all pretty revolutionary equipment and to find out exactly. How it improves the quality of the water I've visited their facility right outside Cleveland watched."

" Jim Killian his partner bill -- founded Kinetico back in 1970. One of the fifty thing about the company is that your architectural. When it's very user friendly our concept here was to have an open area with -- those plants -- very friendly for me. -- from doing environment things that are outside the names under the building for storage everything. Everybody's got. I view of nature out there -- flint saying it but it's hard to get an understanding what you're taking. There's so many small stations making false thoughts about what we're vector research laughable -- to beveled sort of that would throw water product that. Yeah I you know Jim all these new technologies that make the quality of life in our homes so much better. Are tough to understand so I'm glad you've got a good visual here. Explain it this will. What we have the demonstration unit and its -- of the one in your house. What -- them with clear tanks -- much smaller purer than and then when in your house so with the street water becoming and one of these types of becoming in this fight -- your treated water will be -- we've we've leading this fight. You can see that the turbine is turning here that's measuring the water has pulled out of a house so this is the actual brains of the operation right. And I see you have a cross section here. Right now through the water meter there that would be simulating what -- I'm -- manually starter regeneration this would happen automatically in your home by the flow of water okay we could do that manually we're going to draw a brine solution up. Into the into the tank to be regenerated. -- All the parts -- just move -- toward convince all of them that right. In the beginning of the and the materials that are used are vinyl plastic you don't have to worry about. Any of this stuff -- contaminating -- the water that's correct the -- reinforced plastics it's been certified by a -- people would not and not a problem wow look at this do you collar this water for this right -- right. That's that is the right of the -- it's going to be coming up through this thing here a few minutes in the Brian itself. It's got regular salt -- right issues like a regular. People solve that we've used in the home -- right. That's what would normally be in this thing. And so we're gonna be seeing this coming through. The -- them right that will be coming up through meeting here the second. Little book."

" It's all right to assume it's it's really forcing it up right greatness -- coming through forcing the hardness -- in the tells him back off for the residents. And this that this is like this is the resin beads -- there's stuff that you'll also get a commitment I think change resonance that is -- plastic that is designed to the way feels really funny if we got a -- that. -- but it just -- right -- it's not like it's thirty right. So what is this doing it's attracting the it actually attracts the calcium and magnesium Miami right through the bead and and -- them that would soften the water but you have to change this stuff right well. -- that -- if we charged with the -- solution now the tax that I have back of the house are huge -- you make them yourself. But those children we don't that the smaller when such as this we do make."

" Now let's talk a little bit about the drinking water and have it -- reverse osmosis process straighter on the corner here."

" And soft water really terrific in terms of your washing machine your dishwashers and how those appliances function and how clean the lottery comes -- right that's correct but this is important terms what we're drinking and cooking what we're that this is the reverse osmosis drinking water units like the ones that to your basement set up in the lab here yeah. Well we had. What we have -- we're treating a another -- solution into this. Fix solutions coming in through the culprit -- pre filter. Has this inside there. That's designed to pick out any any particles that might remain in the water that he virile try to minerals no other particulates the bigger OK. The water then just come from the -- going to reverse osmosis. Module here in the in the center okay this -- the cutaway of that was what it looked. Plate and Jim just what his -- Moses. Taught us most is actually use these pictures normal process -- taking water on the ground again and -- plants and trees picked up water ends with the tree roots do that's correct and reverse osmosis. Reverse that process we push water through the membrane to waterproof through and at least the mineral behind so that this filters is. What's this stuff me with a selection of plastic the -- and -- plastic but very very thin film in the water begin to push through that membrane. And we've have been limping behind him -- him behind. OK and and finally this black. Filter here just -- third shade is clearly. There's been here it's with a very. High density carbon filters that remove your candy food water think like flowering thing that would -- Funny water think what. Okay. This offense we run we've made -- rethinking both the Connecticut treated water in which was bottled water that he brought the group restore. And you can see the this. You have to disputed drivel like this double system makes water rivers slowly here -- wise. What did it has accumulated into refresher thank you can see here. So that when you need water in the home -- making them much if dispenses -- we've already got like five gallons on. -- is actually the lesson that but the -- water on story when you have portico bit at a much faster -- at a faster rate is the rate at which -- making water right Erica thanks Jim felt like you're with."

" So we're pretty much installed here and we're looking at our water service where the water comes in from the street and then what's happening here. Sir we're going up but throughout what we call a bypass valves so that you couldn't shut off the water to the software in the service that okay. All right then the copper pipes come straight over here. And we're hooked up to here right right the water from the coming in from the houses is going into the unit and through that mineral bed -- And then out and back into the house into the rest of the house what's the blue tank for. Well that's part of our drinking water system over here. This is a storage tank the reverse osmosis drinking water system. Is looked up into her tapped into a cold water -- Produces these high purity drinking water and that's George here in this large storage tanks sister have water whenever he wants is that we get that at the seeing gore also -- feed the freezer the ice maker right."

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