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The Texas Water cat

Whole-house treatment

Fix it where the water comes in.

What you treat at the service line, you treat at every tap and every shower in the house. Follow the cat down the pipe.

Follow the cat Meet her

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One

It all arrives at one place

The service line comes out of the ground at the side of the house and goes into the wall. Everything downstream of it — kettle, shower, dishwasher, water heater — gets whatever that pipe is carrying.

Which is why the cheapest thing to change is usually the first thing.

Two

The softener trades the hardness out

Resin beads swap the calcium and magnesium for something that does not build up. That is the whole mechanism; there is nothing mystical about it.

Scale stops forming on the heating element, the glasses stop spotting, and soap starts lathering with about half as much soap.

Three

Reverse osmosis, for the drinking water

Pre-filters, a membrane, a small tank and its own little faucet on the worktop. It treats the water you actually drink rather than the water you wash the car with.

Media lasts years. Filters do not — so we track the change dates and come and do it.

Four

Water you stop thinking about

Which of those three a house needs depends entirely on what is in the water, and that is not something anybody can tell you from a brochure.

So we test at your kitchen tap first, for nothing, and the result decides the system. Sometimes the answer is that you do not need one.

The design

Every marking means something.

She was drawn before any of this existed — on paper, in one sitting, by a twelve-year-old who had opinions about all of it. The brief that came with the drawing was six lines long and specific to the paw.

  • A Texas, in blue, on the hip that faces you.
  • Aqua eyes — the one bright thing down there.
  • A reddish nose, and white inside both ears.
  • Solid black everywhere else. No exceptions.
  • One white back paw. The right one, and only that one.
  • A blue collar of fish skeletons, with a charm that says Texas Water. Blue and white bands near the tail tip, and a dark blue bow.
Three views of the cat: side, three-quarter front, and back
The original drawing of the cat

The original. Everything on this page is built from it.

The drawing came first.

Not a brief, not a mood board, not a committee. A kid drew a black cat with Texas on its hip and a collar made of fish bones, and it was better than anything a brand deck was going to produce.

The art here is that character, drawn out into scenes. Same eyes, same collar, same one white paw — the back right — in every single frame.

Still to do

She hasn't got a name yet.

That is not an oversight. Naming her belongs to the person who drew her, and she is taking suggestions.

The free test

The test comes before the quote

We test the water at your own kitchen sink and tell you what is in it. No charge, and no obligation to buy anything afterwards — including from us.

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