Salt-Free Systems
Our Active Armour® salt-free technology conditions your water to resist scaling and corrosion while extending the life of your appliances and plumbing.
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Salt-free conditioning is ideal if you want scale protection without adding sodium to your water, without buying salt, and without producing wastewater. Active Armour is a whole-home scale-control and water-conditioning system — it inhibits mineral scale, controls corrosion, and lengthens the life of appliances — a great fit for homes, commercial buildings and food-service operations. It doesn’t only prevent new scale, either: with continuous dosing it also works to gradually break down and remediate existing scale and buildup over time.
One important distinction: salt-free systems condition water to prevent scale rather than removing hardness the way a softener does, so you won't get the slick soft-water feel or the soap savings. If you're weighing the two, our water softener vs. salt-free comparison lays it out, and a free estimate confirms the right fit for your home.
No. Salt-free systems condition water to prevent scale and corrosion, but they don't remove hardness minerals, so the water isn't technically softened. Only a salt-based softener removes calcium and magnesium.
No salt to buy or haul, no electricity, and no regeneration water sent down the drain — plus scale and corrosion protection for your plumbing and appliances. It's a good fit where you can't add sodium or have no drain.
Salt-free conditioning greatly reduces new scale, but because hardness minerals remain in the water you won't get the full soft-water experience (spot-free glassware, extra-soft laundry). If that matters most, a softener is the better choice.
Yes — because there's no salty regeneration discharge, salt-free conditioners are often preferred for homes on septic or without a nearby drain.
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