WSP Whole House Carbon Filter

If your tap water smells or tastes like chlorine or chloramine, this whole house carbon filter helps reduce those odors and flavors throughout your home. It's designed to improve the water you use for drinking, cooking, and bathing by reducing the chemical taste common in city-supplied water.

The Problem You’re Living With

When you turn on the kitchen faucet or fill a glass, the water carries a strong smell of chlorine or a chemical tang that doesn’t sit right. Showers might leave your skin feeling dry or your laundry smelling off, and coffee brewed with this water often tastes flat or sharp. You might notice a persistent chemical odor in your water that no amount of running the tap fixes.

Why It Happens

City water suppliers use chlorine or chloramine to disinfect water and keep it safe as it travels through pipes. While this keeps bacteria out, it leaves behind a noticeable taste and smell. The only way to confirm this is the cause is a simple test: a taste and smell check of your tap water compared with bottled water. If your water smells or tastes chemical and you’re on a municipal supply, chlorine or chloramine is almost certainly present.

What It Costs You to Leave It

Living with chlorine or chloramine in your water means constantly dealing with unpleasant taste and odor that affects drinking, cooking, and hygiene. These chemicals can also dull the flavor of coffee and tea and may cause skin and hair to feel dry or irritated after showering. Over time, chlorine can contribute to the fading of fabrics and lingering odors in laundry. You also spend more time trying to mask or remove the smell instead of enjoying your water.

How This System Helps

This carbon filter uses a process called adsorption, where chlorine and chloramine molecules stick to the surface of specially treated activated carbon made from coconut shells. The tiny pores in the carbon trap and hold these chemicals, reducing their presence in the water before it reaches your taps.

What This System Can Handle

This whole house filter reduces chlorine and chloramine taste and smell from city water for your entire home. It treats all the water entering your plumbing system, so you get cleaner water in every faucet and shower. The system is built to handle typical household water usage and will work continuously, regenerating by rinsing trapped chemicals to maintain performance. It’s designed for city water supplies where chlorine or chloramine are the main concerns and can manage consistent water flow without frequent servicing.

What You Actually Get

The system includes a durable pressure tank backed by a lifetime warranty, ensuring long-term reliability. It comes with a bypass valve so you can isolate the filter and keep water running to your home during maintenance or service—this valve is included at no extra cost, unlike many competitors. You’ll also receive 10 feet of discharge hose for the drain line to connect the system properly.

Is This the Right Size for You?

This whole house carbon filter suits most homeowners on municipal water who want to reduce chlorine or chloramine taste and odor for their entire home. If you have unusually high water usage or need to address other contaminants beyond chlorine or chloramine, a different or larger system might be needed. For smaller apartments or point-of-use needs, a simpler under-sink filter might be more appropriate.

Living With It

Maintenance involves periodic replacement of the carbon media inside the tank, typically every year or two depending on water usage and chlorine levels. The included bypass valve makes servicing straightforward without shutting off your entire water supply. The system does not require electricity and runs quietly without adding complexity to your plumbing.

What It Won’t Do

This filter is designed to reduce chlorine and chloramine taste and smell only. It does not remove minerals, hardness, sediment, bacteria, or heavy metals. If your water has hardness from calcium and magnesium, or other specific issues like iron or sulfur, you’ll need additional systems tailored for those problems.

Why Buy It From Us

Water Softener Plus offers genuine, serviceable equipment with a lifetime warranty on the tank, shipped directly from Tampa, Florida. We include the bypass valve and drain hose at no extra charge, which many competitors sell separately. Our team provides free sizing advice over the phone to make sure you get the right fit. With free shipping within the U.S. and a 90-day money-back guarantee, you can buy confidently knowing support is available.

Included with this system

• Lifetime warranty on the tank. The control valve and electronics carry the manufacturer's own warranty.
• Bypass valve included, so the system can be isolated for service while water keeps running to the house.
• 10 feet of discharge hose for the drain line.

Specifications

What this system handles

• Chlorine taste and smell
• Chloramine
• Pool smell in the shower
• Better-tasting drinking water

The Next Step

Order your WSP Whole House Carbon Filter now to reduce chlorine and chloramine taste and smell throughout your home. Shipping is free and fast—call us at 813-810-0438 for help or place your order online today.