Water Softeners in Castroville, TX
Medina County · City of Castroville water / private wellsCastroville water is hard Edwards water, with wells outside the city limits.
The city system pulls from the Edwards aquifer and runs hard. Outside the limits toward Hondo and LaCoste, homes are on wells that can carry iron. We come out Highway 90 regularly and quote it over the phone either way.
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What comes out of the tap in Castroville
Municipal supply is typically high-teens grains per gallon with no iron — a straight water softener job. Rural wells in Medina County vary more; a free hardness and iron test tells us whether an LPWS48K alone will hold up or whether an iron filter goes in first.
Inside the city, Castroville water is the same limestone hardness San Antonio has, without the iron complications of the Hill Country wells. That makes it the simplest kind of job we do: a water softener sized to the household, and a whole house catalytic carbon filter alongside it if you want the chlorine out at every tap.
Outside the limits — toward Hondo, LaCoste and the farm lots along US-90 and FM 471 — homes are on private wells, and Medina County wells vary more than city water does. Some test clean apart from hardness; some carry iron. Jason's rule for the counties around Bexar holds until a test says otherwise: a well means high hardness, high iron and possible H2S, and the small community water supplies serving some developments are chlorinated, TCEQ-regulated public systems that in his experience still run harder and more iron-prone than city water.
That test is the whole difference between a $2,100–$4,000 job and a $2,500–$4,500 one, and we would rather know before the truck leaves. Hardness, iron and chlorine, free, on a sample you bring us or on install day.
- Utility
- City of Castroville inside the city limits — Edwards aquifer
- City water
- Typically high-teens grains per gallon, no iron
- Outside the city
- Private wells toward Hondo and LaCoste; iron varies well to well
- Trip
- Small trip charge may apply — said on the call
- Pre-plumbed?
- Newer homes and the subdivisions along 471, usually. Historic district and farm houses, usually not.
What that means for the install
Newer homes around Castroville and in the subdivisions along FM 471 are generally pre-plumbed — loop in the garage, about an hour's install, inside the published range. The older homes in the historic district, and the ranch and farm houses outside town, usually are not. Text the three photos from the home page and answer the five questions; Jason prices most of them without a visit.
Same unit everywhere: 10% cross-link resin on a Clack valve, five years on the valve, ten on the tank, one year of free service checkup. A well with iron gets the iron filter ahead of the LPWS48K, and most of those jobs run $2,500–$4,500.
Published range $2,100–$4,000 pre-plumbed, softener only. Higher only for code work, distance, or special circumstances.
Small trip charge may apply.
A small trip charge may apply, and we tell you on the call, not on the invoice. We come out Highway 90 regularly: the US-90 and TX-211 corridor is one of our busiest pockets, and Castroville, LaCoste and the far west side off 1604 are usually the same run. Mon–Sat 7am–5pm, quoted over the phone first.
Water softener questions we get from Castroville
Is there a trip charge to Castroville?
A small one may apply, and we say so on the call before anything is scheduled. Distance is one of the three things that can push a job above the published range, and Castroville is on a run we make regularly, so it is often nothing.
Is Castroville city water hard?
Yes. It is Edwards aquifer water, typically high-teens grains per gallon, with no iron — a straight water softener job sized to the household.
I am on a well near Hondo or LaCoste. Do you come out?
Yes. The free test for hardness, iron and chlorine comes first, and an iron filter goes in ahead of the softener if the test calls for it. Most well jobs run $2,500–$4,500.
Do you cover the far west side and the 211 corridor?
Yes. The US-90 and TX-211 corridor is one of our busiest pockets, and the far west side of San Antonio off 1604 is usually the same run as Castroville.
Same water softener, same warranty, everywhere we go.
10% cross-link resin, Clack valve. Five years on the valve, ten on the tank, one year of free service checkup. Installed by Jason, Estella and Anthony.
Rural wells here take the same iron filter ahead of the softener we install outside Boerne. If a softener is already in and quit, we repair any brand.