This place has very scammy sales tactics. A "water expert" came out to my house to test the water. Based on the results, he showed me water test results from the Environmental Working Group which was clearly meant to alarm consumers of various chemicals in their drinking water. Literally all of the "contaminants" were well below the legal limit, often 10x or more lower. Despite that, the EWG conveniently had their guideline at often 100x lower than the legal limit! That seemed very fishy to me. I looked into EWG afterwards and found that they are considered an activist lobbying organization who many environmental experts consider to be "alarmist" and overstate the risk of chemicals (see the EWG wikipedia entry).
Throughout the testing process I asked questions about the test results and them being well below the legal limits. Despite all my reasonable questions, the "water expert" gradually ramped up the fear factics and used outright lies to try to dissuade me from even considering drinking tap or fridge-filtered water. He started with stating the dangers of chlorine, flouride, and other "contaminants" in water. At one point he mentioned the dangers of pharmaceuticals in the water that could make me sick. He told me the tap water is literally unsafe to drink and that "everyone buys bottled water".
At one point I pushed back on the amount of contaminants in water from the EWG. The results are in parts-per-billion. So I asked him how many water molecules are in a glass of water. 1 trillion? The "water expert" said it was more like 1 billion. I looked up the real value later. It is closer to 8 billion trillion molecules. We were both way off, but I would expect a "water expert" to be a lot closer to the real value than I was.
As for the cost of their water-filtration system. He quoted me at $84/mo. This is a loan payment. Actual full cost? $7,000! I looked online for similar systems for sale. I found some two or three stage filters for as low as $500. The high-end ones I found were ~$2,000.
btw I'm very dissapointed with home depot. They partner with this organization and allow their sales people inside the store! That's how I made contact. This is like a pharmacy allowing homeopathy sales people to pitch to their customers while picking up real medicine prescriptions.
tl;dr; this company uses scare tactics and lies to try to sell home owners water filtration systems that they don't need at at least 3 times the cost of similar filtration systems you can buy online. read more