[Cold Warrior]

I take 3 showers a day

You might want to read this article from the CDC.

[winter-rabbit]

Hahahaha. Thanks for your concern.

I train a lot throughout the day. (:

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior

You might want to read this article from the CDC.

[gvc8]

Originally Posted by MediocreButArrogant

You sure about that? R/O systems typically use around four gallons of water to produce one gallon of filtered water. If your household uses 100 gallons per day inside the house, are you willing to increase that to 400 gallons per day to have R/O filtered water at every tap? Unless you already have a need for 300 gallons of water per day for say, irrigation, and can use the rejected waste water for that, whole-house R/O is just wasteful.

Tabletop R/O water system announced:

WaterO brings reverse osmosis drinking water to the kitchen table | TechCrunch

"The WaterO is a tabletop device roughly the size of a bread maker that utilizes reverse osmosis, a higher and more exacting technology than the carbon filters found on your everyday, run-of-the-mill pitchers from the likes of Brita or PUR...

The user fills up a pitcher from the tap and places it in the machine. The system goes to work running it through four separate filters, a process that takes around 10 or so minutes. Once finished, a screen displays the starting TDS (Total Dissolved Solids), a measurement of non-H2O particles dissolved in the water, followed by the post-filtration numbers.

Before the water reaches the fourth filter, it enters a recycling mode, helping reduce the water waste. In the company’s process, 80 percent of the water is made drinkable. The rest stays behind in a pitcher that can be used to, say, water the plants..."

[MediocreButArrogant]

Originally Posted by gvc8

Tabletop R/O water system announced:

WaterO brings reverse osmosis drinking water to the kitchen table | TechCrunch

"The WaterO is a tabletop device roughly the size of a bread maker that utilizes reverse osmosis, a higher and more exacting technology than the carbon filters found on your everyday, run-of-the-mill pitchers from the likes of Brita or PUR...

Sounds like a product for millennials (i.e. people who will never own their own homes and couldn't operate a screwdriver if their lives depended on it). The rest of us installed RO filters under the kitchen sink when we bought our houses and haven't thought about drinking water since.

[OmegaSupreme]

Originally Posted by MediocreButArrogant

Sounds like a product for millennials (i.e. people who will never own their own homes and couldn't operate a screwdriver if their lives depended on it). The rest of us installed RO filters under the kitchen sink when we bought our houses and haven't thought about drinking water since.

Just installed an RO system myself, but I missed out being a Millennial by a few years according to the technical definition, horay I guess.

I had to drill a hole through granite using a diamond hole saw. It felt similar to cutting circles in tile with a diamond blade angle grinder, so I had no trouble. Others without any experience may be intimidated.

Bought it from eBay from express water, I'm sure cheaper and more expensive 5 stage filters do about the same job. I didn't get a 7-stage for budget reasons

Here are the TDS results

483 = Tap
439 = 1y/o Whirlpool 1 Filtered Fridge
433 = New Mavea Filtered Pitcher
033 = R/O


I need to swap out my fridge's filter, but they are expensive and probably won't do much better than what it does now. Would be nice to see how much better PUR or Brita filter pitchers are, but I'm less inclined to spend any money on things like that since I have the R/O system

Previously, I would refill 5 gallon bottle at the Windmill stations for $1.50, which may actually be cheaper than running an R/O system since there is no maintenance and no sunk cost, but convenience makes the R/O more worthwhile by a huge margin imo

[MediocreButArrogant]

There are plenty of other vendors of filters for refrigerators besides the mfgr, just look on Amazon or Ebay. I think the filters I bought for the old Kitchenaid fridge in our garage were 1/3rd the price of EveryDrop (Whirlpool's brand of filter for all their appliance brands) filters. Wouldn't be surprised if they all came out of the same factory in China.

[xusafpilot]

All salt/potassium softeners work the same way. I use Kinetico softener since it uses a DUAL resin tank system!! It works in my home very well as I don't have to meter my water or deal with a recharge as the other tank is on standby. Other than that ANY decent water softener will work as well minus the recharge time in the middle of the night.

[nickydim]

I ripped out my RO system when we redid the kitchen last month and installed a MAX Flow system. Great tasting, unlimited water at full pressure. It's amazing and love it.

https://www.ewswater.com/product/essential-max-flow/

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by nickydim

I ripped out my RO system when we redid the kitchen last month and installed a MAX Flow system. Great tasting, unlimited water at full pressure. It's amazing and love it.

https://www.ewswater.com/product/essential-max-flow/

The MAX Flow system removes the sanitizers (chlorine) and some other stuff. The source at the kitchen sink typically is hard water, so you'll probably end up with hard water without chlorine that leaves spots on drinking glasses, etc. Either way it still healthy. Its all personal taste.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by MediocreButArrogant

There are plenty of other vendors of filters for refrigerators besides the mfgr, just look on Amazon or Ebay. I think the filters I bought for the old Kitchenaid fridge in our garage were 1/3rd the price of EveryDrop (Whirlpool's brand of filter for all their appliance brands) filters. Wouldn't be surprised if they all came out of the same factory in China.

I tried a 3rd party filter in our Samsung. Lord what a hassle. Ended up taking it back and getting the Samsung brand. Irritates the heck out me to have to pay that high cost (2x), but at least it works.

Since it gets water from the RO system I'm tempted to ignore the stupid red light that says it's time to change the filter. Problem is I'm sure it's full of gunky crap even with the RO.