Family business installs water treatment systems

When Ted Luehr was laid off from the highway department in the early 1980s, he made a switch in his career as an engineer to work in water treatment. 

Since then, Luehr’s company, Advantage Water Conditioning, has serviced thousands of homes in the Flathead Valley. Luehr’s wife Stephanie and their five children have all been involved in the business, which he began in 1982, and his oldest son Nick Luehr has been a full-time partner since 2004. 

“The entire water treatment industry is only 90 years old so the equipment is much better now than it was in the beginning and there are fully automatic systems that we also sell that use salt or potassium chloride, and as long as they're plugged in, they run completely by themselves,” Luehr said.