Whole house water filter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about an under sink reverse osmosis filter? You don’t drink the water from every tap right?

Those are actually kind of nasty. If you want a drinking water only filter, any carbon filter (and they are all carbon) is fine. Britta, etc. All the same filter media. A RO has several stages of filters including a carbon filter, then the water is forced through a reverse osmosis membrane, picture a roll of saran wrap. It makes one gallon of filtered water to 3 gallons it wastes and that gallon is stored in a pressure tank. Like a miniature well pressure tank. When you tap the water, it goes through a final carbon filter to get rid of any taste is picked up in the tank (a kind of rubber taste from the rubber bladder). Keep in mind, that water sits in that tank and is not sanitized. All the chlorine has been removed and the water can get to room temperature unless you go through a lot of it. A lot of bacteria can grow in that tank. Also, completely de-mineralized RO water is not good for you. Look it up. I would not have an RO in my house but, many people love them. The water will not taste good. It has a very flat taste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about an under sink reverse osmosis filter? You don’t drink the water from every tap right?

Those are actually kind of nasty. If you want a drinking water only filter, any carbon filter (and they are all carbon) is fine. Britta, etc. All the same filter media. A RO has several stages of filters including a carbon filter, then the water is forced through a reverse osmosis membrane, picture a roll of saran wrap. It makes one gallon of filtered water to 3 gallons it wastes and that gallon is stored in a pressure tank. Like a miniature well pressure tank. When you tap the water, it goes through a final carbon filter to get rid of any taste is picked up in the tank (a kind of rubber taste from the rubber bladder). Keep in mind, that water sits in that tank and is not sanitized. All the chlorine has been removed and the water can get to room temperature unless you go through a lot of it. A lot of bacteria can grow in that tank. Also, completely de-mineralized RO water is not good for you. Look it up. I would not have an RO in my house but, many people love them. The water will not taste good. It has a very flat taste.

I had one and loved the results but moved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about an under sink reverse osmosis filter? You don’t drink the water from every tap right?

Those are actually kind of nasty. If you want a drinking water only filter, any carbon filter (and they are all carbon) is fine. Britta, etc. All the same filter media. A RO has several stages of filters including a carbon filter, then the water is forced through a reverse osmosis membrane, picture a roll of saran wrap. It makes one gallon of filtered water to 3 gallons it wastes and that gallon is stored in a pressure tank. Like a miniature well pressure tank. When you tap the water, it goes through a final carbon filter to get rid of any taste is picked up in the tank (a kind of rubber taste from the rubber bladder). Keep in mind, that water sits in that tank and is not sanitized. All the chlorine has been removed and the water can get to room temperature unless you go through a lot of it. A lot of bacteria can grow in that tank. Also, completely de-mineralized RO water is not good for you. Look it up. I would not have an RO in my house but, many people love them. The water will not taste good. It has a very flat taste.

I had one and loved the results but moved.

Also nobody wants a Brita, in my opinion it feels like you’re in college and is never full when you want it, and hogs precious fridge space

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you had your water tested?

If not test it with a company like Tap Score,

https://mytapscore.com/

they will tell you what is in your water and make recommendations on what type of filter you should get depending on what is in your water.

Or, I'll just tell you. Your municipal DC water. Is filtered, highly chlorinated Potomac river water. It's about 10 grains of hardness and 2 ppm chlorine.

Or you can save the time time money and look at the reports online. Municipal water is heavily regulated heavily regulated the reports are publicly available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about an under sink reverse osmosis filter? You don’t drink the water from every tap right?

Those are actually kind of nasty. If you want a drinking water only filter, any carbon filter (and they are all carbon) is fine. Britta, etc. All the same filter media. A RO has several stages of filters including a carbon filter, then the water is forced through a reverse osmosis membrane, picture a roll of saran wrap. It makes one gallon of filtered water to 3 gallons it wastes and that gallon is stored in a pressure tank. Like a miniature well pressure tank. When you tap the water, it goes through a final carbon filter to get rid of any taste is picked up in the tank (a kind of rubber taste from the rubber bladder). Keep in mind, that water sits in that tank and is not sanitized. All the chlorine has been removed and the water can get to room temperature unless you go through a lot of it. A lot of bacteria can grow in that tank. Also, completely de-mineralized RO water is not good for you. Look it up. I would not have an RO in my house but, many people love them. The water will not taste good. It has a very flat taste.

I had one and loved the results but moved.

Also nobody wants a Brita, in my opinion it feels like you’re in college and is never full when you want it, and hogs precious fridge space

I have one of those carbon filter things attached to the cold water supply under our kitchen sink. It's like brita, but on demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about an under sink reverse osmosis filter? You don’t drink the water from every tap right?

Those are actually kind of nasty. If you want a drinking water only filter, any carbon filter (and they are all carbon) is fine. Britta, etc. All the same filter media. A RO has several stages of filters including a carbon filter, then the water is forced through a reverse osmosis membrane, picture a roll of saran wrap. It makes one gallon of filtered water to 3 gallons it wastes and that gallon is stored in a pressure tank. Like a miniature well pressure tank. When you tap the water, it goes through a final carbon filter to get rid of any taste is picked up in the tank (a kind of rubber taste from the rubber bladder). Keep in mind, that water sits in that tank and is not sanitized. All the chlorine has been removed and the water can get to room temperature unless you go through a lot of it. A lot of bacteria can grow in that tank. Also, completely de-mineralized RO water is not good for you. Look it up. I would not have an RO in my house but, many people love them. The water will not taste good. It has a very flat taste.

I had one and loved the results but moved.

Also nobody wants a Brita, in my opinion it feels like you’re in college and is never full when you want it, and hogs precious fridge space

I have one of those carbon filter things attached to the cold water supply under our kitchen sink. It's like brita, but on demand.

That's a much better way to go. The Bitta filters are just a few ounces of activated carbon. Very over-priced.