Parafos®

Parafos® Potable Water Treatment Program

A Water Softener Alternative for Scale Control, Corrosion Protection, and Domestic Water Asset Protection

Parafos® is a potable water treatment program that helps protect domestic cold and hot water systems from scale, corrosion, and unnecessary softener maintenance.

For many commercial, residential, institutional, and industrial buildings, Parafos can reduce or replace the need for traditional water softening equipment while also providing corrosion protection that softeners do not.

If your building is dealing with hard water scale, salt handling, softener maintenance, pinhole leaks, copper loss, or domestic water asset deterioration, Parafos may be a simpler and more cost-effective solution.

Replace Softener Headaches with a Managed Water Treatment Program

Traditional water softeners can solve hard water problems, but they also create ongoing work.

Salt needs to be ordered, stored, lifted, and loaded. Softeners require regeneration water, brine discharge, service, repairs, and mechanical room space. Over time, the cost of keeping a softener operating can become a major maintenance burden.

Parafos works differently.

Instead of removing minerals from the water, Parafos helps keep scale-forming minerals in suspension so they are less likely to form hard deposits inside domestic water systems. This helps protect hot water tanks, faucets, showerheads, valves, heat exchangers, and other water-contact equipment while reducing the need for salt-based softening.

Parafos can help reduce:

• Water softener salt purchases
• Salt handling and storage
• Softener regeneration water
• Brine discharge
• Softener maintenance and repairs
• Scale buildup in domestic water systems
• Premature wear on water heaters, faucets, valves, and fixtures

One Program. Two Common Water Problems.

Domestic water systems face different challenges depending on local water quality.

Hard Water: Scale Control

When the domestic water supply contains elevated hardness minerals, mineral scale can build up inside hot water tanks, heat exchangers, piping, fixtures, and valves. Scale can reduce flow, lower heat transfer, increase maintenance, and shorten equipment life.

Parafos helps control scale by keeping minerals such as calcium and magnesium suspended in the water instead of allowing them to form hard crystalline deposits. In some applications, Parafos can also help reduce existing deposits over time.

Soft Water: Corrosion Protection

When the domestic water supply is soft, lacking hardness minerals, the concern is often corrosion rather than scale.

Soft, low-mineral water will attract copper and other metal from the plumbing surfaces. Over time, this will contribute to copper loss, pinhole leaks, water damage, emergency plumbing repairs, and premature pipe replacement.

Parafos helps reduce corrosion potential by forming a microscopic protective layer on the waterside of metal plumbing surfaces.

Metro Vancouver Copper Loss Example

In one monitored Metro Vancouver portfolio, untreated building water was dissolving approximately 3 kilograms of copper from the domestic plumbing system every year causing pinhole leaks and water damage.

After treatment, corrosion-related copper release was reduced by approximately 99%.

Why it matters:

• Water damage insurance claims
• Emergency plumbing repairs
• Resident disruption
• Premature pipe replacement
• Multi-million-dollar repiping risk

For buildings in soft water regions like Metro Vancouver, Parafos is not just a scale-control program. It is a domestic water asset protection strategy.

Proven in Real Buildings and Facilities

Parafos has been used in residential, commercial, hospitality, food processing, and industrial applications where scale, corrosion, and softener maintenance create ongoing costs.

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Woodstock South

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Woodstock South uses Parafos in a hard-water environment, supported by regular site visits to check treatment levels and system performance.

Westmount Golf & Country Club

Westmount Golf & Country Club reported reduced rust staining and lime buildup, along with no sign of blockage or buildup inside water pipes or water heater headers after using Parafos.

A Managed Program, Not Just a Product

Pace Solutions provides Parafos as a managed potable water treatment program.

That means we do more than provide chemical. We help assess, install, service, test, report, and support the program so your building receives consistent treatment and ongoing technical oversight.

A Parafos program may include:

• Domestic water assessment
• Meter and dosing equipment
• Product supply and inventory support
• Regular service visits
• Treatment testing and verification
• Program adjustments
• Technical support from Pace water treatment specialists

The Parafos feed system injects treatment in direct proportion to water flow, helping maintain consistent treatment levels as building water use changes.

Safe for Potable Water Applications

Parafos is designed for potable water systems. It is NSF certified for use in potable water systems and is suitable for many residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, and food processing applications.

Parafos is colourless, odourless, and tasteless. It does not give water the slippery feel often associated with traditional softeners, and it does not remove beneficial minerals such as calcium from the drinking water supply.

Is Parafos Right for Your Building?

Parafos may be a good fit if your building is dealing with softener maintenance, high salt usage, hard water scale, fixture staining, hot water tank fouling, copper corrosion, pinhole leaks, or domestic water asset deterioration.

The best way to know is to start with a domestic water assessment. Pace Solutions will review your water quality, current equipment, operating costs, maintenance history, and domestic water system risks to determine whether Parafos is a fit for your building.

Protect your plumbing. Reduce softener headaches. Extend the life of your domestic water assets.