What GTA commercial facilities have in common
Most of the Greater Toronto Area receives Lake Ontario water that is safe to drink but moderately hard, about 120 to 128 mg/L as calcium carbonate (roughly 7 to 7.5 grains per gallon) in Toronto, York, Peel and Durham, and chlorinated or, in York Region, chloraminated. Groundwater communities run much harder: about 141 mg/L in Newmarket, 235 mg/L in Caledon, 318 mg/L in Whitchurch-Stouffville and up to 340 mg/L on Barrie's well-fed north side, often with iron and manganese. For a facility that heats, stores or processes that water, the dissolved hardness becomes scale on heating surfaces, and the disinfectant attacks seals, membranes and flavour. The equipment differs by industry, but the chemistry is the same, which is why every project starts with the same water test. Read more in
Does Toronto have hard water? and
How limescale impacts commercial buildings.
The salt-free option: Vulcan electronic scale control
For most of the facilities above, the problem is scale, not the minerals themselves. A Vulcan electronic descaler changes how hardness minerals crystallize so they stay in suspension and wash through instead of bonding to boilers, heat exchangers, dishwashers and pipework, and it gradually breaks down scale that is already there. It uses no salt and no chemicals, needs no brine tank, drain, backwash water or resin, takes up no floor space beyond the pipe it clips onto, and has no consumables to buy. The installed cost is comparable to a commercial softener. Restaurants, condominiums, hotels and clinics choose it when they want the equipment protection of softening without the salt deliveries, the drain connection or the mechanical-room footprint. MT Treatment is the authorized GTA distributor; where a process genuinely needs soft or low-mineral water, such as a spot-free rinse or reverse osmosis feed, we size a softener or RO instead. See
Vulcan descaler installation or
browse Vulcan models.
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Don't see your industry?
The five sectors above are where most of our work is, but the same systems serve hotels, fitness clubs, laundromats, schools, places of worship, greenhouses, small manufacturers and offices. If your facility heats water, makes ice or steam, runs a dishwasher or has a boiler room, we can size a system for it. See the full list of
commercial water treatment services or
contact us with a description of the building.