speaking about whole house water filters

[Guest guest]

I was wondering if anyone has a GREAT whole house water filter that they can

recommend?

We've been wanting to get one for a long time now-- but I am not sure where

to begin.

I figure here might be the best place to start since many here will have

one???

So-- I'd like some thoughts on what product to get. I don't need one that's

" ok " , but it would received HEAVY usage since we have 9 (almost 10) people

in our home, so it HAS to be a high quality " forever " type

thanks!

becky

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[Guest guest]

Depends on what you want to do. For cooking and drinking you want to

get the most out, including my personal nemesis, fluoride. Fluoride

traps lead (see my other post with the abstract). Lead steals speech

among other things. In NJ there is so much to get out of water...no

offense but particularly where you live. The Passaic River is a

nightmare. So, to get fluoride and the rest out there are two ways.

1) Distiller. The only NSF certified distiller you can get to do this

is $2500 and is as big as a dishwasher. The company does not retail

in NJ and woould not respond to my requests for a guarantee that if I

tested it through Drs Data and it came back dirty that they would

replace my $. They also never explained to me how they would get it

to me, what the logistics and cost would be.

2) Reverse Osmosis: gets all but a small percentage out. These

systems are not all the same. You want one that gets a lot of stuff

out, like chlorine for example. The best r/o system I found is the

one I bought. You can buy it online at costco and they deliver it to

your door. It is not available at the store.

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?

Prodid=10034720 & search=reverse%20osmosis & Mo=2 & cm_re=1_en-_-

Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search & lang=en-

US & Nr=P_CatalogName:BC & Sp=S & N=5000043 & whse=BC & Dx=mode+matchallpartial &

Ntk=Text_Search & Dr=P_CatalogName:BC & Ne=4000000 & D=reverse%

20osmosis & Ntt=reverse%

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Now, for bath water you can't get the fluoride out but you can get

lead and other nasties out. Because of the size of your family I

think you are going to have to call GE directly and see what the

largest Whole House filter they have is.

With The RO system just be sure whoever installs it funnels the

wastewater out of your house and does not put it back into your

general water system. If so you are literally showering in

concentrated waste water.

I know I am pretty hard core about this stuff but it is so important

and it shocks me that people would go to the extreme end of

supplementation, medication, chelation, etc. and then recycle a

problem like this. By doing this you help your family and your

affected child. It was the one thing we did that caused very little

fuss from hubby.

Due to the size of your family be forewarned that you will definitely

be changing filters more often than the mfr says. Also, realize that

initially you will change them earlier as the first batch of bad

stuff to come out is heavy.

>

> I was wondering if anyone has a GREAT whole house water filter

that they can

> recommend?

> We've been wanting to get one for a long time now-- but I am not

sure where

> to begin.

>

> I figure here might be the best place to start since many here will

have

> one???

>

> So-- I'd like some thoughts on what product to get. I don't need

one that's

> " ok " , but it would received HEAVY usage since we have 9 (almost

10) people

> in our home, so it HAS to be a high quality " forever " type

>

> thanks!

>

> becky

>

>

>

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Music.

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>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Liz,

I would like to get water filters for our home. Currently I'm buying

reverse osmosis water from Whole Foods each week for our drinking water.

But I often cook with the regular tap water. Also, I'm not doing

anything about bath and shower water, which I'd like to address now as

well.

I was not able to get to the link you forwarded about the Costco filter.

Could you tell me the name of the Costco filter? Does that just got on

your kitchen sink then? I'm not sure how this all works. Then your ice

cubes and fridge water are still bad, right? Do you then bring water

from that filter upstairs for teeth brushing?

Does the whole house filter get out must everything but fluoride then?

Could you tell me the name of the whole house filter you recommend as

well?

Thanks for your help with this - I really appreciate it. I'm a little

confused on the water filter stuff.

Thanks,

Becky