We purchased an industrial reverse osmosis system for our home and acreage that processes our well water for human consumption and household/yard water supply. It cost of around $25,000. It worked reasonably well for the first 15 months but since Jan '23 it has been malfunctioning on a regular basis. So it's only reliable for around 1-2 years? We had two service calls in the last couple months, the last being March 24/23 resulting in the service man not being exactly sure what was wrong but disabled a sensor so we could at least get water made until some new parts came in. But that idea didn't solve the issue of the RO not working for more than 21/2 weeks (means no water to the whole house & yard). We have to run downstairs to unplug/re plug it in, and then it usually starts, then wait half an hour for drinking water, as it's working to fill the water reservoir tank. For someone to take a quick shower we need to wait a few hours and to have enough water to run the household it takes nearly 24 hours at a production rate of 20 gallons an hour.
The BIGGEST issue all along is booking a service call. The person answering the phone seems to be screening the callers without any knowledge of this RO system and the services they sell, making unfounded suggestions. After way too long on the phone we convince this person we need to speak to the service man who installed the system and who had been here on most of the service calls. So a message was apparently sent to him yesterday but after all the conversation going in circles about a malfunctioning system, no service call was booked. We called back this morning and were told that 'what we wanted' was to speak with the service man, not to book an appointment. This office must have a lot of service calls (malfunctioning equipment) and appointments or, only a few technicians, because getting an appointment can takes way too long, as in up to 2 weeks. When one is paying this much money for a vital household system, you might think they would supply the service it may need quicker than 10 days to 2 weeks. If it's staff shortages then at least say that. Or maybe, should a system this expensive actually work? Reverse osmosis is NOT new technology. In my mind this business has one more chance to make it work properly or we want our money back. read more