Do you filter your water?

[jeyf]

I looked for a Kenmore 10658982800 without luck.

put some electrical tape over the "replace filter" led and be happy.

if you really want to filter your drinking water pick a designated facet and or the water supply for the fridge and install a RO filter.
An RO filter has no moving parts but there is some maintenance. Just seems like another mouth to feed in the house.

 

[Huntn]

put some electrical tape over the "replace filter" led and be happy.

if you really want to filter your drinking water pick a designated facet and or the water supply for the fridge and install a RO filter.
An RO filter has no moving parts but there is some maintenance. Just seems like another mouth to feed in the house.

I’ve always been bugged by the expense of typical water filter cartridges.

 

[steve knight]

our water is fine but we filter to get rid of the chlorine taste.

 

[Daniel Brown37]

I use water cooler

 

[HDFan]

Installed an RO system this year after years of 5 gal jugs. Hard water here and not super tasty.

Use a Culligan RO. We're on a local water district (alas, not Hetch Hetchy) which has been citied for excessive (but not health threatening) levels of manganese. Great taste.

many people I know have soda streams.

Soda stream RO filtered water is our norm.

 

[Ruggy]

Yes. Many years ago I was advised to put a filter on the mains supply when we were having work done. It turned out to be good advice and I've had one put in on every house we've lived in since.
You have no idea of the state of the pipes bringing water to your home.
I have a 5 micron filter that I have to change about every 6 months and if you saw the colour if it when it needs changing you'd have one too.

 

[ucfgrad93]

Nope.

I drink unfiltered water from my tap.

Same here.

 

[jeyf]

... I have a 5 micron filter that I have to change about every 6 months and if you saw the colour if it when it needs changing you'd have one too.

eat one less fast food lunch a month be ahead of the game.

The city water where i live has a functional reputation.
a RO filter (the only real effective water treatment method) for my fridge ice maker would be nice but getting a little burn out on household technology mouths to feed update.

 

[JagdTiger]

Yes. Many years ago I was advised to put a filter on the mains supply when we were having work done. It turned out to be good advice and I've had one put in on every house we've lived in since.
You have no idea of the state of the pipes bringing water to your home.
I have a 5 micron filter that I have to change about every 6 months and if you saw the colour if it when it needs changing you'd have one too.

Oh, yeah, there is chlorine/chloromines/flouorines, heavy metels, etc.

 

[ZStech]

Do you filter your water?

I recently purchased a Berkey filter system (parents have had one for many years) and am glad I did.

What systems do you use?

Started to filter my wather after watching a video about it, about the wather.

 

[Huntn]

I realized I never answered the question asked in this thread.

• I drink tap water daily.
• I filter water in a jug to make coffee, (when I used to drink coffee).
• I have a water filter in my fridge that needs replacing for about a year now.
• I have a water filter under the sink that needs it’s filters replaced. I resent how much they cost.

 

[LizKat]

I use Brita pitcher filters. Water quality here is good but the village mains that supply it and the feed lines to the houses are variously old, very old and recently replaced... and I'm near the end of the line... so all that adds up in my mind to filtering out some of the "minerals" lol at the very least. I also always let the water run awhile before I draw what to filter into a bunch of Mason jars lined up to receive what I mean to run into that pitcher filter setup. I figure that way I'm not trying to filter anything brackish enough to support a salamander...

When I hear they're working on a main or a feed line then afterwards for a day or so I boil the unfiltered water and let it cool before filtering it. Once the village general store (aka "the grapevine") went out of biz, it became more of a chore to notify residents of intended work on the lines. The water board is supposed to farm out a list of customer phone numbers and call everyone.. but once in awhile you realize the good ol' boyz have decided to just get down to biz and do something like clean the village well reservoirs or flush the in-village fire hydrants without "wasting time" phoning a few hundred customers.

How we get "notified" sometimes is turning on the tap and a) there's no water or b) they've opened up a section of the mains and done some work and closed it back up while we were unaware... and what's coming through the tap for a little while now may include some "minerals" -- aka rust or a little close-to-bedrock farming soil of Delaware County, provided courtesy of a borrowed backhoe and a couple of guys with shovels.

Mind you I'm grateful I don't have to maintain my own well and pump or spring line, but... more than a few of us customers have got caught in the shower now and then with soap in hair and sudden cessation of water to finish the job. It's a great life in the boondocks if your sense of humor doesn't weaken.

 

[dk001]

My water is hard with the pH on the basic side. I use a counter top Enviro 10 stage for my drinking water use (tea kettle, coffee maker, etc...). I also use a second unit to initial filter the water for my aquariums (African Cichlids). All else straight from the tap.

 

[an-other]

I buy water for coffee. I live in an area of very hard water, and my objective is to extend the life of my too expensive machine.

 

[mrex]

nope, excellent tap water quality here.

 

[LizKat]

nope, excellent tap water quality here.

I felt that way about NYC water when I lived in Manhattan (especially since the water comes from upstate where the watershed restrictions are stringent and randomly enforced by a dedicated LE agency)

To me in Manhattan the taste of tap water was excellent in my upper west side apartment. I still filtered it though, over concerns about old piping.

If I lived out in Long Island and only rented, I'd probably have bottled water delivered in five gallon containers, even if there is an ongoing study to keep track of issues related to salinity invasion of freshwater aquifers.

https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/108901.html​

Sure a water utility is required to test the water and report periodically but a lot of mischief can happen underground between those inspections.

In midtown office buildings in Manhattan, I tended to use water cooler water since it turns out that at least some of the buildings there had had some notorious waivers granted in their construction era, including with respect to plumbing.

It's hard to find better water quality than atop some of the Catskill mountains... but there can still be concerns about what happens between spring house or well or village reservoir and the kitchen tap. The water can be hard, so filtering and softening are mainstays of a lot of homes in my area. If I ever ended up having a spring line or well at some point, for instance in case of the nearby village system standing down, then I might then discard my pitcher filter operations, out of knowing that my installation and piping is new and from having it routinely tested on a quarterly basis.