If your water smells like chlorine, leaves white deposits on fixtures, or you’re spending money on bottled water every week — a properly installed filtration system solves it at the source. MQ Plumbing installs whole-home and point-of-use water filtration systems for homeowners across Mint Hill, Charlotte, and the surrounding metro. We work with city water and well water, recommend systems based on what’s actually in your water, and install everything cleanly and to code. Written price before any work begins.
Water Filtration Services We Provide
City Water or Well Water — It Changes What You Need
Most homes in Charlotte proper and newer suburban developments are on municipal water supplied by Charlotte Water. That water is treated before it reaches your house — but treatment introduces its own byproducts. Chlorine and chloramines used for disinfection affect taste, smell, and over time can dry out rubber seals and gaskets in your plumbing.
Homes in Mint Hill, Weddington, Marvin, and other outlying areas are more likely to be on private wells. Well water isn’t treated — which means no chlorine, but also no protection from bacteria, iron, sediment, or pH imbalance. What’s in your well water depends on the geology of your specific property and what’s happening in the soil around it.
The right filtration system depends on which source you’re on and what’s actually in the water. We don’t recommend a system before we know what we’re working with.
What's Common in Charlotte-Area Water
City water: chlorine and chloramine taste and odor, chlorination byproducts, occasional sediment from aging distribution pipes, low to moderate hardness depending on your area of the metro.
Well water: iron and manganese (causes orange-brown staining in sinks and tubs), hardness from calcium and magnesium, bacteria risk if the well casing is compromised or the area has had flooding, sometimes low pH that’s corrosive to copper pipes.
Both: sediment, particulates from aging household plumbing, and in some areas, PFAS compounds that municipal treatment doesn’t fully remove.
A water test tells you exactly what’s present at your tap — not what the utility reports at the treatment plant. Those are different things.
Not sure which fits your situation?
Call us and we'll walk through it — no obligation, no sales pitch.
Filtration Is Not the Same as Softening
This is one of the most common points of confusion, and it’s worth being direct about it.
A water filtration system removes contaminants — chlorine, sediment, bacteria, dissolved solids. It does not remove hardness minerals (calcium and magnesium) unless it includes a specific ion exchange stage or reverse osmosis membrane.
A water softener targets hardness specifically — replacing calcium and magnesium ions with sodium through ion exchange. It does not filter out chlorine, bacteria, or other contaminants.
Many homes benefit from both. Some benefit from one. The right answer depends on what your water test shows. We’ll tell you which system — or combination — actually addresses your situation, not the one with the highest margin.
What We Install
We install Aquasana whole-home systems, which we’ve used on projects where clients wanted a proven, independently certified system with a clean installation. Aquasana’s whole-home units are NSF-certified and designed for long service intervals — typically 1 million gallons before the main filter stage needs replacement, which is roughly 10 years for most households.
We also work with other brands depending on what the water test shows and what fits the home’s existing plumbing configuration. If you already have a system in mind, we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s the right fit for your water and your setup.