Next Level Filtration

The SoftPro Fluoride & Chlorine+ SUPER Filter Goes Where Standard Carbon Filters Stop

Dual catalytic carbon and bone char media removes fluoride, chlorine, chloramines, PFAS, and a broad spectrum of chemical contaminants from every faucet, shower, and appliance in your home — simultaneously, passively, without any ongoing effort.

•  Fluoride reduction at whole-house scale — bone char media provides the consistent, proven fluoride adsorption that activated carbon alone CANNOT deliver, bringing fluoride-conscious households a solution that works at every outlet rather than just one under-sink tap
•  Chlorine and chloramine removal that outperforms standard GAC — catalytic carbon's enhanced surface chemistry addresses chloramines specifically, which are more stable and more resistant to conventional filtration than free chlorine
• Up to 99% reduction of PFAS forever chemicals — the dual-media system's combined surface area and adsorption chemistry provides broad PFAS capture that basic filters can't match

Clean Water You Can Trust at Every Faucet

Whole-house filtration that treats what municipal treatment leaves behind — so the water you drink, cook with, bathe in, and breathe as shower steam is the same quality throughout your entire home.

Here's the thing: Municipal water treatment was designed to produce water that is safe. It was NOT designed to produce water that is truly clean by today's standards.

Chlorine and chloramines are added to prevent bacterial regrowth in distribution pipes — they don't disappear before they reach your tap. Fluoride is added to approximately 73% of US public water systems as a dental health measure — it arrives at your home unchanged. PFAS compounds contaminate a significant and growing percentage of US municipal water supplies, and their removal was NOT part of the original design brief for standard municipal treatment.

The SoftPro Fluoride & Chlorine+ SUPER Filter is engineered to address this second layer of water quality — the chemical treatment residuals and modern contaminants that municipal systems introduce or fail to remove.

By treating your water at the point it enters your home, the system makes every outlet — every shower, every kitchen tap, every glass of water, every pot of pasta — the same quality as a premium under-sink filter, without the limitation of only treating water at a single location.

• Dual media design combining catalytic carbon and bone char reduces fluoride, chlorine, chloramines, PFAS forever chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceutical traces, and petroleum compounds
• Sized for medium to large homes — the system maintains strong, consistent flow to multiple simultaneous outlets including showers, appliances, and kitchen taps without pressure drop
• City water optimized — no well water pre-treatment required, no complex programming, no chemicals, no electricity draw, no waste water output

More Effective Filtration by Design

Next-generation upflow technology paired with catalytic carbon and bone char media provides deeper, longer-lasting contaminant reduction than conventional downflow carbon filters.

Most whole-house carbon filters use a downflow design: water enters from the top of the tank, passes downward through the media bed, and exits from the bottom. Over time, this directional flow creates preferential pathways — channels through the media where water flows with minimal contact. As channeling develops, an increasing fraction of the water passing through the tank bypasses effective filtration while the media retains unused capacity.

The SoftPro SUPER Filter Uses Upflow Design

Water enters from the bottom of the tank and is forced upward through the media bed. This prevents channeling by consistently lifting and agitating the media bed under flow — every portion of the media remains in active contact with the water stream. The result? More consistent filtration performance across the system's entire media life, not just in its first months of operation.

•  Catalytic carbon and bone char media reduce chlorine, chloramines, PFAS, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceutical byproducts, and petroleum compounds through high-surface-area adsorption — a passive physical process that requires no chemicals and generates no byproducts
•  Upflow design forces water through the full media volume rather than allowing it to find the path of least resistance — every gallon gets maximum media contact time throughout the system's service life
• Media life tested to 600,000 to 1,000,000 gallons — under typical US household consumption, a family of four typically reaches the upper end of media life within 6 to 10 years, eliminating the cartridge replacement cycle entirely

The Chloramine Problem

Chlorine vs Chloramines — What's Different

Free chlorine reacts readily with activated carbon. A standard GAC filter that's adequately sized and properly maintained will remove free chlorine consistently.

Chloramines are chemically different — formed by combining chlorine with ammonia during treatment, they're significantly more stable than free chlorine. They're also harder for standard activated carbon to remove. The reaction between chloramine and standard GAC is slow, requiring extended contact time that a conventional downflow carbon filter at typical household flow rates can't provide reliably.

A standard carbon filter on a chloraminated supply may remove an acceptable fraction of the chloramine load at low flow but performs considerably less effectively under high flow conditions or when multiple outlets run simultaneously.

Why Catalytic Carbon Addresses Chloramines Effectively

Catalytic carbon is produced by activating carbon under specific conditions that create a modified surface chemistry with significantly higher catalytic activity than standard GAC. The enhanced surface reactivity catalyzes the decomposition of chloramine molecules — breaking the nitrogen-chlorine bond and neutralizing the disinfectant residual — at a rate that standard GAC can't match.

This higher reaction rate means that the contact time available during normal household flow rates is sufficient for effective chloramine reduction across all flow conditions, not just at low flow.

This is the reason the SoftPro SUPER Filter specifies catalytic carbon rather than standard GAC. On a chlorinated supply, the performance difference is modest. On a chloraminated supply — which now accounts for a majority of US public water systems — the difference in chloramine reduction between standard GAC and catalytic carbon under real-world flow conditions is SIGNIFICANT.

How to find out if your city uses chlorine or chloramines: Your utility's annual Water Quality Report is required to list the disinfectant type. If it says chloramines or combined chlorine, you're on a chloraminated supply. Either way, the SoftPro SUPER Filter's catalytic carbon addresses both effectively.

PFAS: What They Are, Why They're in Your Water

What PFAS Are

PFAS are a family of more than 12,000 synthetic chemical compounds characterized by extremely strong carbon-fluorine bonds — the same property that makes them useful in industrial and consumer applications also makes them essentially indestructible in the natural environment.

They were developed starting in the 1940s and became ubiquitous in manufacturing: nonstick cookware coatings, waterproof clothing treatments, food packaging, firefighting foam, semiconductors, and hundreds of industrial processes all involve PFAS compounds. Because they don't break down, they've accumulated in soil, groundwater, surface water, and eventually in municipal water supplies.

Why They're Called Forever Chemicals

The carbon-fluorine bond in PFAS is among the strongest chemical bonds in organic chemistry. No natural process breaks it down at any meaningful rate under environmental conditions. PFAS released decades ago are still present in water and soil today. They accumulate in human blood and tissue. Once PFAS enter a water supply, they can't be diluted or naturally degraded to a point of insignificance.

What the EPA Has Done About PFAS in Drinking Water

In April 2024, the EPA finalized maximum contaminant levels for six PFAS compounds in public drinking water — the first federal enforceable limits for these substances. The MCL for PFOA and PFOS was set at 4 parts per trillion.

Many municipal systems currently deliver water with PFAS levels above these new limits. In the interim, household point-of-entry filtration is the most practical available option for families who want to reduce PFAS exposure immediately.

How the SUPER Filter Addresses PFAS

PFAS compounds are removed by activated carbon primarily through adsorption. The key variables are surface area, contact time, and media quality.

Catalytic carbon's high surface area and the SUPER Filter's upflow design — which maximizes the contact time between water and media — combine to produce PFAS reduction of up to 99% under typical city water conditions. The addition of bone char provides supplementary adsorption surface area for certain PFAS compounds that carbon alone addresses less completely.

Does This Filter Replace a Water Softener?

This is the question that many buyers who arrive at this page from a softener search will want answered.

The answer is clear: this filter and a water softener address completely different problem. Neither replaces the other.

What This Filter Does

• Removes chlorine, chloramines, PFAS, fluoride, heavy metals, pesticides, and chemical contaminants through adsorption

• Improves water taste, odor, and chemical safety at every outlet in the home

• Passive operation — no programming, no salt, no regeneration

• Does NOT remove dissolved calcium and magnesium — it does NOT address water hardness at all

What a Water Softener Does

• Removes dissolved calcium and magnesium through ion exchange — preventing scale buildup, extending appliance life, improving soap performance

• Addresses the mineral hardness that causes white deposits on fixtures, spotted dishes, dry skin from mineral residue, and scale damage inside water heaters

• Does NOT remove chlorine, chloramines, fluoride, or PFAS — a softener is NOT a filtration system

When to use both: Many city water homeowners have both hard water AND chemical treatment concerns. In that scenario, a softener and a whole-house filter serve complementary functions — each solving a problem the other can't address. When used together, the filter is typically installed upstream of the softener so that chemically treated water passes through the filter before it reaches the softener's resin.

If you're unsure whether you need one or both, contact us — a five-minute conversation will give you a clear answer.

Fluoride & Chlorine+ SUPER Filter vs Chlorine+ Carbon Filter

Both products are whole-house upflow carbon filtration systems from SoftPro. Both use catalytic carbon. Both are sized for medium to large homes. The difference is the addition of bone char to the SUPER Filter — and whether that addition is relevant to your household's priorities is a straightforward question to answer.

Chlorine+ Carbon Filter ($819) — Choose This If:

• Chlorine taste and odor, chloramine removal, and PFAS reduction are your primary concerns

• Fluoride in your city water is not a specific concern for your household

• You want excellent chemical filtration at a lower entry price

Fluoride & Chlorine+ SUPER Filter ($1,019) — Choose This If:

• Fluoride reduction is a priority — for infants, young children, or any household that prefers to minimize fluoride exposure

• You want the most comprehensive whole-house chemical filtration available in a single-tank system

• You want enhanced heavy metal reduction and broader trace contaminant coverage through bone char's additional adsorption capacity

Both products offer the same upflow design, the same media life (600,000 to 1,000,000 gallons), the same lifetime warranty, and the same 6-month guarantee. The $200 difference buys the fluoride reduction and the additional contaminant coverage that bone char provides.

Confidence You Can Feel From Day One

Lifetime Warranty

Every SoftPro Fluoride & Chlorine+ SUPER Filter ships with a limited lifetime warranty covering the system and its components. A filtration system with no cartridges to replace, no electrical components to fail, and a passively operating media bed is inherently a long-lived piece of equipment — the warranty reflects that reality. Coverage extends for the life of your ownership and transfers with the system if you sell the property.

6-Month Money-Back Guarantee

Six months gives you enough time to genuinely evaluate this system. You'll know within the first week whether the chlorine odor has disappeared from your showers. For fluoride-reduction verification, a simple inexpensive tap water test at 30 and 90 days provides documented confirmation.

If within six months of delivery you're not satisfied with any aspect of the system's performance, contact us for a fair and transparent return process.

What Warranty Support Looks Like in Practice

• Direct contact with the same team who supported your purchase — no third-party claims processor

• Remote troubleshooting first — most installation and performance questions are resolved by phone without any parts shipment

• Replacement components dispatched promptly when a diagnosis confirms a component issue

Installation Guide

The SoftPro SUPER Filter is a single-tank point-of-entry filtration system. It connects to your main household water supply line and treats every gallon before it distributes to any outlet.

Compared to a water softener, installation is simpler: there's no brine tank to connect, no drain connection required for normal operation, no salt to add, and no programming to complete at installation.

What a Standard Installation Involves

• Identifying the main supply line entry point — typically where the water service line enters the home from the meter

• Shutting off the main water supply and cutting into the supply line to install the filter's inlet and outlet connections

• Connecting the included bypass valve — this allows you to isolate the filter for maintenance without shutting off water to the rest of the home

• No drain connection required for normal daily operation — the selective backwash override feature means the system rarely needs to backwash on clean city water

• If paired with a water softener: install the filter upstream of the softener so chemically treated water is filtered before it reaches the softener's resin bed

Compatible Pipe Materials

The included 3/4" flex lines are compatible with copper and PEX supply plumbing. They're not suitable for PVC connections. PVC homes require copper or PEX transition fittings at the connection points.

No Programming, No Setup, No Ongoing Adjustment

Unlike a water softener, this filter requires no programming at installation and no ongoing adjustments during operation. The automated backwash control head manages the occasional media cleaning cycle automatically. The selective backwash override allows the system to skip up to 10 backwash cycles when not needed on clean city water.