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Old 01-07-2018, 02:50 PM   #16
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In the end, I went with a system recommended by a guy in our community whose wife died from cancer. He is convinced that our city's water is to blame, and campaigned heavily to get our mayor to at least get some testing done, which our mayor did not do. But, this guy did do a lot of research on water filters, so I just went with what he got. If I had to do it again, I'm not sure that I'd recommend this particular system because it uses copper in there somewhere, and I'm all about ridding the body of unbound copper at the moment!
What system did you go with?

I'm looking at doing more research this year. I was told by my integrative doctor to avoid reverse osmosis fwiw.
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Old 01-08-2018, 03:18 AM   #17
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What system did you go with?

I'm looking at doing more research this year. I was told by my integrative doctor to avoid reverse osmosis fwiw.
Do you know why?

I need to do some more research. It's obviously a huge investment.
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Default Re: Anyone Have A Whole-House Water Filter?

I'm not sure why, but he said to get a filter that wasn't reverse-osmosis. I'm sure there are health disadvantages to it for him to tell me that. I'll look at the practice's blog and see if I can find anything.
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Default Re: Anyone Have A Whole-House Water Filter?

Because Reverse Osmosis takes everything out of the water from a health perspective. so no minerals etc. That's why many people don't like reverse osmosis for drinking. I usually did installations for manufacturers who needed "dead" water for chemical processes. Personally, I don't have a problem with RO for drinking, but water passed through a mineral filter usually tastes better.

But from a purely practical perspective, I wouldn't put RO on a whole house. RO is expensive. It uses a membrane which is ridiculously expensive to replace. If you are filtering water for your whole house the membrane is going to take a beating. It would then be better to put a basic filter on the outside inlet that takes out sediment and chlorine (a granular activated carbon block) for the whole house and put a second filter at your kitchen sink (or where you mostly get your drinking water from) that is more refined, like adding an activated silver, and a 0.5 micron sediment from drinking point. If you want to, you can add an RO machine at the kitchen sink instead of the above.


Basically at inlet of whole house buy a triple or double housing. Put a HUGE 10 micron sediment filter on, if you can follow it by a 5 micron, and then a carbon block. For most houses this should actually be enough. Replace the 10 micron sediment filter every 3 months, the 5 micron twice a year, and the carbon block twice a year. The 10 micron sediment will save your other two filters. If you can only afford a double housing, you can choose to go either 5 micron or 10 micron, but carbon blocks are usually already at 5 micron level.

People with hard water (actually full of minerals) can choose to put on a water softener block as well. Soft water doesn't taste as good as hard water though, so it may be a better idea that it's just connected to the laundry or your shower, depending on why you want your water softened.

If you catch rain water or it's from a well, you go through a completely different filtration procedure where you actually add chlorine in the water, take it out again, put it through more filters, and then put it through a UV light, but I don't think that's the case here.

Hope that helps.
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Thank you ForHim. That does help a lot.
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