Commercial · Offices

Drinking water, in a building that happens to have exam rooms.

A dental practice break room is ordinary commercial drinking water. Dialysis, laboratory and sterile processing water is a different trade. We do not do it. That distinction is the whole page.

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A compact filtration system and storage tank installed under a sink in a cabinet alongside everyday supplies.

Point of use Representative point-of-use installation in a breakroom cabinet. What an office usually needs is better water at the taps people drink from.

The distinction

Medical building, not medical water.

These two get run together constantly, and they should not be.

A medical office building has a break room and a waiting area. The staff drink water all day. That is the same problem as any other office, and we treat it the same way.

Clinical water is something else entirely. Dialysis water reaches a patient's bloodstream across a membrane. It never passes through a gut, so nothing filters it on the way. It meets its own standards and is monitored constantly. Laboratory water is graded and measured, because somebody's published results depend on it. Sterile processing feeds autoclaves and instrument washers.

Those are different professions. Their own standards, their own monitoring, their own liability. We do not do them, and a vendor who offers to do both should worry you.

Offices, medical and dental

Break room and staff drinking water

Waiting area and patient drinking water

Beverage water for a staff kitchen

Dialysis water. Different standards, continuous monitoring, a different trade

Laboratory or reagent-grade water

Sterile processing, instrument washers, or any water feeding a medical device

Questions

Questions we get about this.

We are a dental practice. Which side of the line are we on?

Both, usually. Your break room and waiting area are ordinary commercial drinking water and we are happy to do that. Water feeding a dental unit waterline, an autoclave or any instrument is a different matter, runs to its own standards, and is not ours.

Why will you not do dialysis or laboratory water?

Because it is a different profession rather than a larger version of ours. Dialysis water reaches a patient's bloodstream across a membrane, so things that are harmless to swallow are not harmless there. It needs continuous monitoring, redundant equipment and somebody whose entire job it is. Laboratory water is graded on resistivity and organic carbon because published results depend on it. We would rather say no than learn on your building.

How is an office different from a house?

Mostly in how much water gets drawn at once and how it is permitted. Commercial plumbing is permitted, coded and inspected differently, the local authority decides what applies, and backflow prevention is often in play. We settle all of that before quoting.