Best Home Water Filters

Where can I find information about a home water filter system(drinking water)? I don’t think I plan on making every faucet in my house filtered unless it’s cheaper to just do it all. Where do I start? How hard is it to change the filters when it’s time to change them? What’s the best company? etc. ,
Thanks

You ask a lot of good questions. The changing the filter difficulty will depend on the system that you choose–and there are quite a few to choose from, as you probably already know.

Here’s a great guide to home water filtration:

http://www.bobvila.com/HowTo_Library/Selecting_a_Water_Filtration_System-Subject_Green_Building-A3582.html

Here’s a great step by step How To for installing a below-the-counter sink filtration system:

http://www.bobvila.com/HowTo_Library/Install_a_Below_Counter_Water_Filtration_System-Subject_Plumbing_Filters-S2655.html

Good luck making your decision!

Not sure if I should get an atmospheric water generator, or a unit that plugs into the home "tap" supply of poisoned water to filter it. Looking for answers from pros, and or people with existing units.

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Hope this help. Good Luck!

ok Im maken a home made water filter for tap water..i bought Activated carbon for aquariums, but when i compared it to brita water filter carbon, it seems the brita has much smaller granulated carbon, plus something added in, like tiny white pebbles, i don’t know what that is.. i am thinking to use two kinds of carbon, one to get rid of bigger material in water (microscopic size) and one kind to be able to absorb even smaller micron size material… I figure AC (activated carbon) for fish tanks be good to filter larger stuff, but where can i find the kind of AC to absorb real smaller material?

Your method will not work to do the same tasks as one of the original Brita filters.

Besides being of smaller particle size (with a greater surface area), the active carbon in a Brita filter has been silverized. This is not an easy job to do at home. In addition, it contains an Ion Exchange Resin (the tiny white pebbles).

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I have been online and good ones cost a few 1000 and this one is only 400 and a little bigger one is 500 so it is good?

Check out the link below. This is what I have and love it. I pulled the filter part out, ran water with food coloring in it through this filter and my Brita. This water came out 100% clear, whereas the Brita did nothing.

Contact me for more info.

The tap water has been treated chemically and still has a high mineral content from going through the system. At times it
has a brown tinge.

Have you tried Brita?

Also at cost, not store prices I want to save at least 40% instead of going to a store.

We are with rainsoft, they have great products!

We’d like to put our home on a filter. Please name the company you used and your experience with it all.

Multi-Pure is very good. Their filters are NSF-certified to remove a wider varieties of contaminants than most brands. It’s a little on the high end but you will get what you pay for. Most filters need to be replaced every 3 to 6 months but Multi-Pure filters last up to 12 months.

It’s very important that whatever filter brands you buy is NSF-certified.

I want one that I can put on the counter in my kitchen that purifies my water. I dont want to drink anymore of the chemicals in the tap water such as fluoride and all those toxins in there.I want purest of the purest water. Thanks.

To get rid of things like fluoride, you need a reverse osmosis filter. Not sure that you can get these as a counter-top filter though.

Search the internet. You can buy them online. In Australia, they cost about $500. These are under-the-bench models that you need to properly install.

EDIT: The standard water filters, like Britta, will not remove any chemicals from your water. They will remove any suspended particles, and anything with a carbon filter should help sterilise the water. Fluoride can only be removed by a reverse osmosis filter.

EDIT 2: Again, if you want to remove things like toxins and fluoride, you need the reverse osmosis filter. None of the other filters will remove these.

It woud be great if we could have water with both these removed and the natural minerals still in. But that is called rain water, and only collected out of urban areas.

Is this true and if so, what about those home water filter units that you filter tap water yourself like brita or Pur, do those cut out the minerals as well?

Tap water is often more healthier as well because cities add things to it such as flouride, and because it’s publicly accessible, it needs to be tested regularly, and meet certain standards. I’m not too sure about the Brita or Pur filtering out minerals, but they do for sure change the water- you can tell in the taste. Those filters claim to remove harmful things that may be found in tap water, but because they use carbon as the filtering substance, the water that you’re left with will often have higher carbon levels than what you started with out of the tap.

I am looking into buying a water filter for kitchen tap. I gather you can put a system under the sink and run a separate tap.

Has anyone ever used such a system successfully? Or unsuccessfully for tht matter?

Is there a way I can try before I buy?

Thanks.

Water filtration systems come in three basic designs, ranked by their effectiveness.
1. Ionic, which uses electricity to remove the extra chemicals. Some labs to create distilled water out of tap water use this system.
2. Osmosis Filter’ which forces the water to move up through a filter leaving behind impurities.
3. Filter systems, which simply run the water through a filter.

Pure and Brita make several filter systems. Some attach to the sink faucet (which I installed myself and use) others are a filter in a pitcher.

Before paying all that money for a professionally installed system I would by the Brita Pitcher and try that out. If you notice a difference then you might want the more expensive system. However, once you sign the contract to install the expensive system you are stuck with it–there is no "try before you buy" policy.

Personally I do notice the taste difference.