The Puronics GOODSPRING BWS Salt Free System

Scale eating your water heater, but salt is off the table at your address? ScaleMax stops scale from sticking, with no salt, no power, and no drain line to plumb. Start with a free water test at your home.

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20,000+ Installs
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What the GOODSPRING BWS Does for Your Home

Its main job is scale, and the way it goes about it is worth understanding because it is not what most people picture. The ScaleMax does not pull calcium and magnesium out of your water. It converts them into micro crystals. A dissolved mineral will bond to the inside of a pipe or the element of a water heater. A crystal will not. It rides through and goes down the drain with the rest of the water.

Over time that also works backwards on scale that is already there, gradually reducing deposits that formed in your plumbing before the system went in. Meanwhile the calcium and magnesium stay in the water you drink, which is the point of the whole salt free approach.

Installs Where Other Systems Cannot Go

This is the practical argument for the Goodspring line, and it decides more of these sales than the material inside does. The in and out up flow valve backwashes itself without generating waste water, so there is no drain to connect. The system needs no electricity, so there is no outlet to find. Nothing gets discharged.

Put those together and a system can be sited in a garage corner, a side yard enclosure, or a utility closet that has neither a floor drain nor a receptacle. Anyone who has priced running a new drain line for a water treatment install already knows why that matters.

"Half the time I recommend the Goodspring it is because of where the plumbing comes into the house, not because of what is in the water. When the only sensible spot has no drain and no outlet, this is the system that goes in without opening up a wall or calling an electrician. Customers care about that a lot more than they expect to."

Gregg Stewart, Owner, Authorized Puronics Dealer in Orange County, CA C-55 #904801, (714) 545-3022

What Is Inside the Tank

  • ScaleMax scale inhibitor. Converts hardness minerals into micro crystals so they stop forming scale, while preserving the calcium and magnesium in your water.
  • SilverShield HYgene. Activated carbon that reduces chlorine and chloramine taste and odor, with embedded silver that inhibits bacterial growth inside the tank.
  • Purifex. Filters the water without stripping the healthy minerals out of it.
  • JetWhirl dispersion. A patented design that spreads flow evenly through the tank rather than letting it channel, so more of the material inside does work and the bed lasts longer.
  • Three piece tank. A polyethylene inner liner for the water to touch, a fiberglass outer layer for pressure, and a stainless steel outer cover for finish and durability.

Scale Control Is Not Softening

Said once more, because the distinction decides whether you will be happy with this system. Preventing scale and removing hardness are different outcomes. The BWS delivers the first. Your water heater and your pipes benefit, and the sediment and taste improve at every tap. What does not change is the film on the shower door, the spotting on glassware, and the way soap lathers, because those come from minerals that are still in the water.

Puronics puts it bluntly on its own site: salt free water softeners do not exist. If a hardness symptom is what made you start looking, the honest recommendation is a salt based softener from the Puronics line, and we will make that recommendation even though this page is the one you landed on.

How Much Does the GOODSPRING BWS Cost?

Less than the CLARIUS, more than the BPS, and the actual figure follows your household size and the reading from the free water test at your address. The install is usually simpler than a softener install because there is no drain and no power to run, which tends to help. No number gets quoted before somebody has tested the water.

Which Homes the GOODSPRING BWS Fits

Addresses where salt is restricted by an HOA or a discharge rule, low sodium households, and any install where the only practical location has no drain and no outlet. It is also a sound pick when the goal is protecting a newer water heater rather than fixing a visible complaint.

Where to look elsewhere: the GOODSPRING BPS is the same treatment with a fiberglass tank at a lower price, the CLARIUS iGEN whole house filter adds the self managing digital valve and a stainless tank, and genuine hardness symptoms need a softener. Compare the range on the salt free water treatment systems page, or ask Authorized Puronics Dealer in Orange County to run the test first.

Cities We Cover
in Orange County

Wherever you are in the county, the water test is the same and it is still free. Pick your city below and we will tell you what is known about the supply on your street before we ever come out. The office is in Irvine and we cover all 34 cities from it.

GOODSPRING BWS Questions Orange County Homeowners Ask Most

Straight answers about goodspring bws in Orange County. These are the same questions our specialists answer on every free water test visit.

Does the GOODSPRING BWS remove hard water minerals?
No. It changes what they do rather than taking them out. The ScaleMax converts dissolved hardness minerals into micro crystals, and crystals do not bond to the inside of your pipes and your water heater the way dissolved minerals do. The calcium and magnesium stay in the water, which is deliberate, since both are useful to drink. If you want the minerals gone, you want ion exchange and that means a salt based softener.
Will it fix my spotty dishes?
Probably not, and this is the honest limit of the whole salt free category. Spotting is caused by hardness minerals drying on the glass, and this system leaves those minerals in the water. What it addresses is scale building up inside the plumbing and the hot water tank. If dishes and shower doors are your main complaint, say that during the water test, because a softener is the tool for that job.
Is it true it needs no drain line?
Yes, and it is the most practical thing about this system. The in and out up flow valve self backwashes without producing waste water, so there is no drain connection to plumb and no discharge going anywhere. It also requires no electricity. That combination means it can be installed in places a conventional system simply cannot go, which matters in garages and tight utility closets.
What is JetWhirl?
A patented flow design that spreads water evenly across the whole tank instead of letting it channel down one path. Channeling is the quiet killer of filter, because it exhausts a narrow track while most of the bed sits unused. Even dispersion means more of the material inside does work, which extends service life.
Does it help with chlorine taste as well?
It does. Alongside the ScaleMax the system carries SilverShield HYgene, which is activated carbon with embedded silver. The carbon reduces chlorine and chloramine taste and odor at every tap, and the silver inhibits bacterial growth inside the tank itself. There is also Purifex, which filters while leaving the calcium and magnesium in place.
How is this different from the BPS model?
The tank, essentially. The BWS uses a three piece tank with a polyethylene inner liner, a fiberglass outer layer, and a stainless steel outer cover. The BPS drops the stainless cover for a fiberglass finish and comes in lower. The internals, the valve, and the water result are the same on both.

Get Your Free
Water Test

We come out, test the water at your kitchen sink, and tell you in plain English what is in it and what it is doing to your house. It takes about thirty minutes. You owe us nothing afterwards, and roughly one visit in five ends with us telling the homeowner they do not need a system at all.

What Happens
When You Call Us

Nobody enjoys booking a home visit from a company that sells something. Here is exactly how ours goes, so there are no surprises.

We test your water, not an average

Hardness, chlorine, dissolved solids, pH, iron. We run it at your sink, because the number on your street is not the number two cities over, and in Irvine alone the published readings run from 6.3 to 16 grains per gallon.

You get the results in plain English

We walk you through what came back and what it is doing to your heater, your fixtures and your skin. About one visit in five ends with us telling the homeowner their water is fine and they do not need us.

If you do need a system, we size it

Then we install it ourselves under our own California C-55 license, pull the permit where the city wants one, and service it afterwards. You are not handed off to a subcontractor you have never met.

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