no, my tapwater's fine
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Mine too. A study by our local Consumer Protection showed that must water filters are needing ground for bacteria and often lessen the water quality.
Dude your mom’s fine
no duh, that's how she remarried rich
I got a water test kit for free from Home Depot and sent it in. Never got an answer. This inspires me to try again.
I've been using a PUR brand water filter that attaches to the faucet for quite awhile now. If you have an older one I recommend getting a newer one. It has a little LED that flashes green and it will turn red when the water filter goes bad. Although I'm pretty sure it's just a timer, it doesn't actually detect the filter has gone bad I don't think.
Also my area has a pipe issue and there may be Lead in the water... I'm hoping the filter helps but idk...
RO filter under the sink with a post carbon filter. It also connects to the fridge/ice maker.
I can taste when the city treats the water just from rinsing after brushing my teeth. The water tastes "salty" to me. I also was disgusted after the ice cubes melted in my drinks, leaving a sludge in the bottom.
Reverse osmosis. I don't really need it now, but in a previous house I had lab test results showing my water was not safe to drink without it. (well water)
In my country most houses will have one of these:
Ã. Brazil or Portugal?
The faucet filter looks really easy to plumb & change, do they work well?
Brazil.
I don't have the faucet filter, but I never heard any complaints about them. I'd guess that if your water has good pressure you won't have any problems with them.
if you don't have enough pressure the water comes out too slow
I use a Berkey for drinking water.
I have one of those big Britta tanks. One nice thing is that filters for them often show up very cheap at thrift stores.
I use a culligan inline filter to a separate tap on my sink.
Yes. I have one in my refrigerator that is NSF rated to remove lead. Our tap water is good quality, but our house is 100 years old, so I'm a little bit concerned about lead from the pipe solder.
Whole home filter. Just a GE brand and the filters aren’t that expensive. It picks up grit that I’m sure isn’t harmful but would clog up the flow restriction/aerators and shower head. It also has activated carbon to reduce smells that may or may not be helpful.
Halo 5 whole house filter. it then goes through the filter in my fridge because its colder than the tap (lasts forever now, tho)
With the pitcher filters, be sure to change the filter often and scrub the pitcher/tank often. Algae can grow in them, causing all sorts of issues.
My tap water (Denver area, Colorado, USA) is pretty good. My fridge has a filter and cold water is tastier, so I end up with cold, filtered water (as filtered as can be from some off-brand filter I got online).
But the coffee maker is next to the kitchen sink and I happily use that. Sometimes I'll fill a glass from the bathroom faucet and it hits the spot. Neither are filtered, and I don't think twice about it.
Does your fridge work without the filter? Mine fuckin' doesn't.
I have a GE or Whirlpool, can't remember, but it also didn't work without it. I did some research and I think they were forced to provide, free of charge, an inline bypass. I got it from their website because it stopped dispensing water when I needed to replace the filter after what felt like a very short amount of time, and I could only use their filter. Basically, their filters have RFID chips, and so the fridge wouldn't work without it, but you can have them send you, for free, a bypass, which basically connects the tubing and puts the RFID in place.
So I got that, and picked up an in-line filter that is now in the basement, that is just between a valve off a water line and the fridge, was a pretty easy install, and the filter supposedly lasts much longer than the fridge one.
Reverse osmosis system under the sink. I've got a whoe house water softener, too, but it's almost 30 years old and needs replaced. I'm on well water, and while it's safe to drink, it has high manganese and calcium content. The calcium will gunk up my electric kettle pretty quickly, but as long as I fill it from the filter faucet it stays pristine.
Yup. 2 filters 0.3 and 0.5 microns filtering capability.
Most of the buildings built here since WWII and into the 70's have lead pipes. There's a push to test water quality in homes, and to have the pipes replaced, but in the meantime I use a Brita pitcher with a lead filter.
This is why Obama didn’t really address the flint Michigan water situation. Once they started testing there, other cities would start. Boom, national crisis. ALLEGEDLY the coating that forms on the inside protects against lead poisoning but, who knows. And if chemistry changes drastically, like Flint’s case, it can remove that naturally occurring coating.
At my previous apartment, I had a city employee test my water. They let faucet run for about 10 minutes, then took a sample and got basically immediate results and told me the pipes were leaded. If that's all it takes to test positive, then the protection can't be that effective. The tech was in my apartment for less than 15 minutes, and 10 minutes of that was just letting the faucet run.
They tell us that there is no safe amount of lead, and they can detect the presence instantly. That tells me there's not much protection. Even if it takes 10 minutes to get past that protective layer, after taking a shower your water wouldn't be safe anymore until there's another buildup.
Yeah that’s what the gov agency said about it around the time of the Flint water crisis. “Allegedly” is the key word here. Thats when I read a whole bunch of research on it. Could have been complete bullshit, who knows.
You think about that and the actions of the USSR gov, depicted in the HBO series Chernobyl, and you have to wonder if the US response would be much different. Three Mile Island would probably like a word.
There was steel rationing for the war effort during WWII, so they stopped using steel to make pipes. Then it wasn't until the 70's that they decided to ban the use of lead pipes in new construction, but never forced anyone to remove their existing pipes.
The ten minutes is to get a lower reading not a higher one. The longer the same water sits in those pipes the more shit it absorbs from the pipes.