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01-07-2018, 02:50 PM | #16 | |
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Re: Anyone Have A Whole-House Water Filter?
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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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01-08-2018, 03:18 AM | #17 | |
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Re: Anyone Have A Whole-House Water Filter?
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I need to do some more research. It's obviously a huge investment.
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01-08-2018, 09:08 AM | #18 |
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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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01-08-2018, 11:54 PM | #19 |
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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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01-09-2018, 04:31 AM | #20 |
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Re: Anyone Have A Whole-House Water Filter?
Thank you ForHim. That does help a lot.
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