5-Micron Sediment Filter
Pre-Filtration - Polypropylene
Captures larger particles and helps protect Highlands County plumbing and appliances from premature clogging.
- Sand
- Silt
- Sediment
- Rust
- Dirt
- Scale
- Turbidity
- Debris
Bottled water-quality water throughout your entire Lake Placid home. Advanced whole-house purification down to ≤0.01 microns—no bulky RO tanks or pumps required.
System Specifications
A hollow-fiber ultrafiltration membrane does the work a reverse osmosis membrane normally needs a storage tank to do—so every tap in your Lake Placid home runs at full pressure, all day, with no brine tank taking up garage space.
Ultrafiltration pore size
High whole-house flow rate for Highlands County homes
Roughly a year between changes in Lake Placid
Physical barrier, not chemical
Visibly clearer water for Lake Placid homes
Operates perfectly up to
Heartland Florida Limited-Time Offer
$2,995
Installed
Regularly

Cartridge housings, manifold, UF membrane vessel & all parts—installed at the main line.

Mounted, plumbed and pressure-tested by experienced pros.

We test your Lake Placid water and verify flow and pressure before we leave.

Fully tankless - no storage tank, no waiting for a refill—perfect for Lake Placid households.

We stand behind our work and your satisfaction in Lake Placid.

Treated at the main line, so your whole Lake Placid home benefits at once.
Why This System for Lake Placid Homes
Carbon and sediment media reduce what dissolves in your water. A 0.01-micron membrane physically blocks what floats in it—a different job entirely.
Ultra-fine filtration blocks contaminants larger than 0.01 microns—great for Lake Placid water.
Blocks harmful microbes and microscopic particles—great for Lake Placid water.
Reduces turbidity for cleaner, clearer water in Lake Placid homes.
Activated carbon reduces chlorine, odors, and VOCs for Lake Placid water.
See how quickly trapped contaminants can build up inside your filters.
Blocked by the 0.01 micron membrane
Ultra-fine plastic particles & colloids
Added to most municipal supplies in Highlands County
Captured along with lead & other toxic metals
Lead, mercury, nickel & chromium
Taste, odor & harsh chemicals
Volatile organics & herbicides
That rotten-egg smell some rural wells get
Sand, silt, hard-water scale & debris
Cloudiness, color & organic growth
Advanced Filtration
Specialized stages in sequence—sediment, KDF-55 redox alloy, fine carbon, and a hollow-fiber ultrafiltration membrane.
Ultrafiltration delivers reverse osmosis quality water to every tap—no storage tank, no brine waste.
99.99% bacteria removal/reduction—blocks organisms outright rather than inactivating them.
80,000 gallon capacity and long-life media keep maintenance to roughly once a year for Lake Placid homes.
The Multi-Stage Advantage for Hard Water
Pre-Filtration - Polypropylene
Captures larger particles and helps protect Highlands County plumbing and appliances from premature clogging.
Copper / Zinc Redox & Bacteriostatic Media
A copper-zinc redox alloy that converts chlorine and precipitates dissolved heavy metals, while suppressing bacterial and algal growth inside the housing—helpful for humid subtropical Lake Placid conditions.
Fine Activated Carbon Block
Fine filtration plus activated carbon adsorption—the stage that handles chemicals, taste, odor and color.
<0.01 Micron Hollow-Fiber Barrier
The final barrier. Hollow fibers under 0.01 microns let water through and block what’s bigger—helpful with Lake Placid’s hard groundwater.
How It Works
Raw water from the main line enters the inlet manifold at up to 80 PSI—typical for Lake Placid homes.
Sediment, KDF-55 and 0.5-micron carbon target particles, metals and chemicals—helpful with hard groundwater common in Highlands County.
The hollow-fiber membrane holds back what’s left, and purified water flows to every tap at 15 GPM—great for Lake Placid homes on hard well water.
Engineered for
Whole-Home Protection in Lake Placid
Bottled water-quality water for Lake Placid—every tap, every day.
High-Flow Capacity
15 gallons per minute keeps Lake Placid showers, laundry and the kitchen running at once.
Engineered for Maximum Performance in Lake Placid
Uninterrupted flow for the entire home—great for busy Lake Placid households.
Helps protect plumbing, appliances & fixtures from hard-water scale.
Cleaner, clearer water for your Lake Placid family.
Premium media built for a long service life in Heartland Florida.
About one service visit per year for Lake Placid homes.
Inside the System
Contaminated water enters the system from your Lake Placid main line.
Evenly distributes water across each filtration stage for steady flow.
Removes sand, rust, silt, and larger particles—common with some Highlands County well systems.
Reduces chlorine, odors, VOCs, and taste issues common in Lake Placid water.
Bundles of hollow fibers create a membrane barrier that blocks bacteria, cysts, microplastics, turbidity, and fine suspended solids larger than 0.01 µm—ideal for inland Florida well water.
Collects purified water from the membrane fibers for your home.
Clean, filtered water exits the system for your Lake Placid home.
Removes trapped sediment and backwash debris during maintenance or a manual flush—ideal for hard-water areas.
Regular maintenance and periodic flushing help keep peak performance—and extend system life in Lake Placid’s hard-water conditions.
How Reactive Osmosis (RO2) Works in Lake Placid
The sediment pre-screen captures sand, rust, silt, and other visible particles before they move through your Lake Placid plumbing.
Activated carbon binds chlorine, VOCs, and odor-causing compounds—great for Lake Placid water.
Clean water passes through the hollow fibers; very fine contaminants stay outside—great for hard groundwater in inland Florida.
Contaminants Reduced
Conventional Whole-House RO
This System - Reactive Osmosis (RO2)
Traditional RO vs. Reactive Osmosis in Lake Placid
A traditional whole house reverse osmosis system and a Reactive Osmosis (RO2) system are both after the same result - reverse osmosis quality water at every tap. They get there very differently, and the difference is what you live with day to day in Lake Placid.
Traditional Reverse Osmosis
Reactive Osmosis (RO2)
Reactive Osmosis (RO2) delivers reverse osmosis quality water at every tap without a tank or a pump—an excellent fit for Lake Placid and Highlands County homes on hard groundwater. It is not a reverse osmosis membrane, so it does not lower dissolved salts or TDS the way a conventional RO system does - what it removes is everything particulate and biological, for the whole house, at full pressure.
Pure water in Lake Placid isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifestyle.

Bottled water-quality water on tap,
in every room of your Lake Placid home.

99.99% turbidity removal/reduction means
clearer glasses, ice and bathwater in Lake Placid.

99.99% bacteria removal - organisms
are blocked, not just treated.

Carbon-polished water for coffee, tea,
and all your favorite recipes at home in Lake Placid.

Tankless design delivers 15 GPM
with nothing to refill—great for Lake Placid’s busy households.

80,000-gallon capacity keeps
maintenance to a yearly visit.
KDF-55 and 0.5-micron carbon take on chlorine, byproducts, taste and odor at the main line.
The 5-micron pre-filter and membrane handle silt, rust, turbidity and biological contaminants together.
Installed across Highlands County and Heartland Florida—often in a single visit.
Conventional whole house reverse osmosis has three well-known drawbacks: it needs a storage tank, it needs a booster pump, and it sends a large share of your water down the drain as brine - then delivers it slowly. Reactive Osmosis (RO2) takes a different route to the same result. A hollow-fiber membrane with pores at or under 0.01 microns physically blocks bacteria, cysts, colloids, microplastics and many viruses - contaminants no carbon filter reliably stops - while running tankless at 15 gallons per minute. It's worth being clear about the tradeoff: RO2 is not a reverse osmosis membrane, and it won't lower dissolved salts or TDS the way a true RO system does. What it does remove is everything particulate and biological, which is what many Highlands County homeowners are actually worried about, and it does it for the whole house at full pressure.
Whole House Reverse Osmosis in Heartland Florida
Most homeowners searching for a whole house reverse osmosis system are really searching for one thing: bottled water quality at every tap, not just the one under the kitchen sink. Here is how whole home RO actually works, where it struggles, and why Reactive Osmosis (RO2) is the way we install it for Lake Placid homes.
A whole house reverse osmosis system treats water where it enters the home, at the main line, so every fixture in the house is fed purified water—kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, ice maker and outdoor spigots alike. That is the difference between whole home reverse osmosis and a point-of-use RO unit, which purifies a single faucet and leaves the rest of the house on untreated water. For Lake Placid and the rest of Highlands County, whole-home treatment is a simple way to keep water consistent everywhere.
A true reverse osmosis membrane produces water slowly and under pressure, so a whole-house RO system has to bank it: a large pressurized storage tank, a booster pump to refill it, and a brine line that sends a significant share of your incoming water to the drain. Run two showers and the dishwasher at once and you can outrun the tank. The equipment footprint, the wasted water, and the pump are three reasons many Highlands County homeowners abandon the idea.
Reactive Osmosis reaches reverse osmosis quality water by filtration rather than by pressurized rejection. Multi-stage media—a 5-micron sediment pre-filter, KDF-55 copper-zinc redox alloy and a 0.5-micron carbon block—handle sediment, chlorine, heavy metals, VOCs, taste and odor. A hollow-fiber membrane with pores at or under 0.01 microns then blocks bacteria, cysts, colloids, microplastics and many viruses outright. It’s a great fit for Highlands County homes dealing with hard groundwater and mineral scale. No storage tank, no booster pump, no brine line, and 15 gallons per minute on demand.
Chlorine, chloramine byproducts, hydrogen sulfide, VOCs, pesticides and dissolved heavy metals such as lead, mercury, nickel and chromium are handled by the KDF-55 and carbon stages. Bacteria, cysts, microplastics, turbidity and fine suspended solids are blocked by the membrane. Dissolved salts and TDS are the honest exception—lowering those takes a true RO membrane, which is the tradeoff you make in exchange for losing the tank, the pump and the brine. In hard-water areas common across inland Heartland Florida, this approach also helps cut down on what can contribute to scale.
Whole home reverse osmosis systems commonly run several thousand dollars once the tank, pump, plumbing and labor are counted. Here in Highlands County—where hard groundwater is common—mineral scale can be tough on plumbing and water-using appliances. Our complete whole-house Reactive Osmosis (RO2) system is $2,995 installed - regularly $5,000, so you save $2,005. That price includes the cartridge housings, manifold, membrane vessel, professional installation, a water test and a system check before we leave.
On municipal supplies the KDF-55 and carbon stages take on chlorine, disinfection byproducts, taste and odor at the main line. On rural wells and sediment-prone plumbing, the 5-micron pre-filter and the membrane handle silt, rust, turbidity and biological contamination together. We install whole house reverse osmosis quality systems across Highlands County and Heartland Florida, often in a single visit.
Limited Time Offer in Lake Placid
$2,995
Installed
Regularly