Subject: OT Any recommendations for a whole house

[Guest guest]

You cannot put a reverse osmosis system on a whole house. It uses too

much water and cannot take the pressure. You can only put a reverse

osmosis system under the sink, so the best choice would be your

drinking sink. Also, it will only filter the cold water unless you

have the water filtered and then heated with an instant hot. If you

get an instant hot, do not get one with a plastic reservoir, get a

stainless steel resevoir. Guess is about $600.

For the whole house system, you need to get a cylinder with carbon and

resin inside. This will filter out the by-products of chorination or

choramination. Both these processes are necessary to bring clean water

to our houses. However, they also bring with them the by-products,

known as trihalomethanes, the best-known of which is chloraform. Many

chemically sensitive people are " allergic " to chloraform. We all know

that our skin is a great vehicle for absorbing chemicals into our body.

Guess $1200 for a 2-3000 square foot house. Call Culligan or a

specialized water store in your area.

If a whole house system is not in your budget get a carbon block filter

to be installed on your kid's bath faucet or shower faucet. And then

put a carbon block or reverse osmosis system under your kitchen sink.

Carbon block filters a lot but it is not certified to get (don't quote

me I am typing from memory) heavy metals or flouride. Reverse osmosis

gets everything.

Before being worried, call your local water district and ask them for

the Annual Report which should included water quality data and what the

find in the water. Usually they test at many, many different spots in

the field. However, like everyone, I am sure they pick the right times

of year to test the water to reflect as well as they can on themselves.

Maureen

[Guest guest]

A lot depends on what is in your water locally.

Carbon gets the organic ick.

One combination is a water softener (gets the heavy metals) and carbon

(gets the organics). This leaves in the chlorine and fluoride however.

There are some simple chlorine filters that screw onto the shower

outlet that are fairly inexpensive.

Andy

> You cannot put a reverse osmosis system on a whole house. It uses too

> much water and cannot take the pressure. You can only put a reverse

> osmosis system under the sink, so the best choice would be your

> drinking sink. Also, it will only filter the cold water unless you

> have the water filtered and then heated with an instant hot. If you

> get an instant hot, do not get one with a plastic reservoir, get a

> stainless steel resevoir. Guess is about $600.

>

> For the whole house system, you need to get a cylinder with carbon and

> resin inside. This will filter out the by-products of chorination or

> choramination. Both these processes are necessary to bring clean water

> to our houses. However, they also bring with them the by-products,

> known as trihalomethanes, the best-known of which is chloraform. Many

> chemically sensitive people are " allergic " to chloraform. We all know

> that our skin is a great vehicle for absorbing chemicals into our body.

> Guess $1200 for a 2-3000 square foot house. Call Culligan or a

> specialized water store in your area.

>

> If a whole house system is not in your budget get a carbon block filter

> to be installed on your kid's bath faucet or shower faucet. And then

> put a carbon block or reverse osmosis system under your kitchen sink.

> Carbon block filters a lot but it is not certified to get (don't quote

> me I am typing from memory) heavy metals or flouride. Reverse osmosis

> gets everything.

>

> Before being worried, call your local water district and ask them for

> the Annual Report which should included water quality data and what the

> find in the water. Usually they test at many, many different spots in

> the field. However, like everyone, I am sure they pick the right times

> of year to test the water to reflect as well as they can on themselves.

>

> Maureen

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 5/26/2004 12:38:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,

moblock@... writes:

> Guess $1200 for a 2-3000 square foot house

Mine was much less than this, and not resin but carbon with KDF. Try

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/?source=Overture[water filter]

Nell