im looking to buy a brita water filter for my kitchen sink, i dont know a whole lot about them and was wondering if it was worth the money? if so, how often do you change the filter??
Hi. I am trying to figure out something about water filters. I used to live in CT. And the water tasted fine. But I had a PUR water filter anyway to get rid of all the contaminants in the water. I would say I changed the filter about once a month. Just recently I moved to South Carolina. And I have noticed that the tap water here does not taste good. Even when I filter it with my PUR filter, it still tastes almost as bad as coming straight out of the tap. So I want to invest in a new water purifier, and I am trying to figure out what the best one to buy is. I have a small kitchen sink. So I need one that is able to be put in the fridge. Not one on the sink itself. And I have done some research. But I want to invest my money wisely and not just go with what the website for pur or britta or ect… says. So I was wondering what everyone else thinks is the best. And maybe that can help me make up my mind.
Thanks all.
Ok. Can anyone say why they think theres is the best. Like if you have ever used them or seen them used. I want to make sure its just more then you have seen and believed the commercial.
we are currently thinking of buying a faucet water filter to save money for buying lots of spring drinking water. I want to know which is cleaner and which is more cheaper because over we i live at it costs about for four of the 5 galoon containers.
I have a knew 50 gal tank and I’m gona transfer My community fish to it. I’ve heard alot about those water cleansers that remove all the elliments from your tap water. The store told me to not even bother its just a fresh water tank and it would only be worth it for salt water. but a friend whos has some good experience with his three tanks says it would be better for the fish and easier for me. I really don’t want to spend the money but if its better in the long run for the fish and truely easier for me I’ll consider it. Whats your guys opion?
Yes I’m asking about the filters that remove chlorine, Choramine and other unwanted stuff. I have water conditioners and try to take the needed steps to take care of the water. I.m just asking about those filters that you hook up to your tap and run the water through before you put the tank.
I have a 6yr old Kinetico Quad-51 water softener system
I need to change the filters and Kinetico wants a lot of money to do it and won’t give me any answers.
I’ve heard that tap water has stricter regulations, although the reason I want one is mainly because mine doesn’t taste well. Is it really worth the money will I notice a difference?
I have a treta repto filter. It is a carbon filter. How do i clean it. Can i just rinse the cartridge through water. I don’t have the money to by one cartilage every week. I May be able to change every other month. Please tell me how i should clean it and when should i change the cartilage. It is going in a 37 gallon turtle tank. Thank you
Will i need the carbon in my tank. I own turtles. If i just rinse the cartilage will the carbon just dissolve. Then i need a new cartilage. Or can i go with out the carbon for my turtles?
we have 60m of professionally installed purple sub-surface irirgation piping. we are in Perth and our soil is basically pure sand 15m above the watertable. the piping seemed to become clogged with soil within around 6 months with the result that it no longer works and the pump is just continually cycling the water around the piping loop with hardly any dripping out into the soil.
is this a common experince?
if so it seems that the piping is not really fit for purpose.
our experince would certainly not encourgae anyone to adopt a professional grey water system. very disappinted and want to ask for our money back (,500) or ask the installer to replace the pipe with one that doesn’t clog. the grey water system has a 2 filter system (micro and macro) and we clean these regularly so the problem is not it seems that particles/lint in the grey water are clogging the system
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I have a 55 gallon fish tank powered by two 60 gallon filters. Each filter requires 2 filter cartridges to run. I was wondering if i could go a little longer without changing them because there are two of them. I usually change them once every 3 weeks, but that runs me a lot of money, especially when I got another 29 gallon tank also power by a 60 gallon filter that needs changing. I vacuum my tanks and do a 20% water change once a week. Any suggestions?
BTW the 55 gallon only has 6 afican cichlids in it.
I’m looking at buying water filters for my Maytag refigerator in bulk to save money, but I don’t want to do it if unopened filters expire in a couple years or something. Does anyone know?
Please understand that I don’t already own these and I’m looking to order online, so I can’t be checking for a "use by" date!!!
I have a client who says he sells a Water purification system that takes humidity out of the air and converts it to drinking water. He wants to sell this to businesses with the claim that it will save them money since they don’t have to buy 5 gallon water jugs for their water cooler. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this before? If so is there a website I can check out.
Does anybody out there realize that "triple filtered" means tap water? Even if it is spring water, that doesn’t mean it is free of pollutants or fish poop! And even if it is pure, it’s not worth more than a quarter! But as long as people are dumb enough to keep paying good money for it, they will keep making huge profits for something that is no better than tap water, which is worth less than a penny per gallon.
I mean, it’s a charcoal filter. Wouldn’t that filter pee into something drinkable?
I really don’t want to spend money on one unless I can drink my own urine.
I went shopping with some friends.
They bought bottled water and I joked with them about how they don’t drink from the tap.
They basically said the bottled water is cleaner and different from the tap…so they drink from the bottled water most of the time and the sink every once in a while. (They use Brita with the sink, though).
So then I try to convince them that the Brita filtered water is the same crap as what’s in the bottles, and they believe me.
SO, I offer the idea of getting a stainless steel water bottle so they can take it to class with them (they got bottles so they can carry it to school) and I was like, "the bottle will last 1000 years so you never have to waste your money on the bottled water."
Know what they said? "Oh, but I don’t need something to last that long."
Look, the only two companies that have pure filtered water are Dasani and Aquafina. Dasani is reverse osmosis filtered water with minerals added, but Aquafina is reverse osmosis filtered with nothing added. (They didn’t understand reverse osmosis or the idea of added minerals).
Is it wrong for me to be bothered that the general population thinks just like they do and is wasting oil for these dang bottles of water?
You may be helping a lot of people to save money and keep healthy by answering and share your experience using Brita filters.
I found that Brita Filter replacement cartridges and similar products are extremely expensive. Not mention if you have to pay for the water+sewage as well in your monthly utility bill.
1. Is it good for pregnant woman to drink water filtered by brita instead of buying bottled/distilled water?
2. Is brita filter cartridge contains only activated carbon, what are the white/cream particles inside?
3. Is it easy to regenerate just by boiling it, or you have to reactivate the carbon by baking or burning it?
4. Can you replace the carbon with regular activated carbon (with the same particle size)?
