Whole house H20 filters?

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Post by Qtown1835 » Wed. Oct. 31, 2018 9:21 am

So i was looking to install a whole house filter here at my work and get rid of the timeless water cooler. Just looking to get rid of the "city" water taste, better coffee, etc. Does anyone have experience with a 3-stage cartridge filter system? In my short search i landed on the THD-PSE500, by Pelican. Any insights?

 
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Post by warminmn » Wed. Oct. 31, 2018 10:25 am

If its just for drinking, consider a gravity filter. Lots of varieties around and some have chlorine filters available. You must be on city water so there shouldnt be too many other nasty's in it. It might be too simple of a solution....

 
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Post by coalkirk » Mon. Mar. 11, 2019 6:46 am

Seems like overkill especially for $800.00. I'd get a regular water tilter and use a charcoal cartridge.

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Post by coaledsweat » Mon. Mar. 11, 2019 6:51 am

You need to test the water in order to select a proper way to filter it. Cartridges are pricey and may not do what you want. You can spend a lot of money and have no solution if you don't choose the system that is appropriate for your issues.

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Mon. Mar. 11, 2019 7:40 am

Had an under kitchen sink filter system and took it out because the big cartages got expensive with the wife using it in cooking and rinsing pots/pans.

I now use the Brita counter top type cartages for just drinking, coffee, and ice cube water. Good for at least 40 gallons each cartage. They do an excellent job of filtering out "city water" taste, and our town's deep rock well hard water mineral tastes such as sulfur. Then I can keep a jug of filtered water cold in the fridge in summer.

I buy the bulk packs of ten cartages at the big box stores such as BJ's.

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Post by BostonBob » Mon. Mar. 11, 2019 8:52 am

coaledsweat wrote:
Mon. Mar. 11, 2019 6:51 am
You need to test the water in order to select a proper way to filter it. Cartridges are pricey and may not do what you want. You can spend a lot of money and have no solution if you don't choose the system that is appropriate for your issues.
Hi all this is correct from coaledsweat, filters are part of why McDonalds sodas always taste so good, they are expensive but you also need to know what is in the water to get rid of it, the best thing you can do is get the water tested and filtered, you can decide if you only want to filter the kitchen sink or the whole house. The most expensive and best is a reverse osmosis filter system but it takes everything out of the water, in doing so if you don’t use enough of it you have a chance of that water going bad very quickly ! (I’m a Senior Tech for Coca-Cola)


 
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Post by coalkirk » Mon. Mar. 11, 2019 9:20 pm

Qtown1835 wrote:
Wed. Oct. 31, 2018 9:21 am
So i was looking to install a whole house filter here at my work and get rid of the timeless water cooler. Just looking to get rid of the "city" water taste, better coffee, etc. Does anyone have experience with a 3-stage cartridge filter system? In my short search i landed on the THD-PSE500, by Pelican. Any insights?
All he wants to do is get rid of that "city water taste" which I interpreted to mean chlorine. It's city water so unless he's living in Flint Michigan, I don't think he needs to do a whole lot of testing. The filter housing and cartridge I suggested are about$50.00 total.

 
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Post by Richard S. » Thu. Mar. 14, 2019 9:07 am

The water is really good at my Grandmothers except the chlorine, installed just a single housing similar to the one Coalkirk posted and use carbon filter in it. It still has very minor chlorine taste but it's exceptionally strong where she lives. I'd imagine if you doubled up on the filter it would remove it entirely. You are supposed to put a cotton sediment filter before it but it always last long enough before I'm changing it anyway, proabaly change it every two or three months. The only time I had any issues was when they were working on pipe and the water was dirty, instantly clogged it. Of course it was just days after I installed new one. I just washed it off and it worked well for a while longer.

 
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Post by Rob R. » Thu. Mar. 14, 2019 10:49 am

Qtown1835 wrote:
Wed. Oct. 31, 2018 9:21 am
So i was looking to install a whole house filter here at my work and get rid of the timeless water cooler. Just looking to get rid of the "city" water taste, better coffee, etc. Does anyone have experience with a 3-stage cartridge filter system? In my short search i landed on the THD-PSE500, by Pelican. Any insights?
We put a filter on the feed for the coffee pot, ice maker, and drinking fountain. I think it is an Elkay filter, like this:

https://www.drinkingfountaindoctor.com/elkay-ewf1 ... sUQAvD_BwE

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