What are good water filter systems for drinking water?

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Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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Canadian tire has a sale right now on them, they have Rainfresh, Filtrette and GE ones. My main concern is quality and also how easy it is to get replacement filters. Ex: will I still be able to in 10 years from now? This would go under the sink and there would be a separate tap, it's for drinking water. Mostly to filter out the chlorine taste in city water. I'd probably coil some pipe inside a mini fridge too, so it comes out cold. The GE model seems to be discounted the most, it's over 100 bucks and right now they're asking 50.
 
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Blain

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Build your own...
20" Big Blue, with a refillable cartridge loaded with bone char & KDF-55
Or if you want easier... 20" Big Blue with off the self Carbon Block cartridge.

Option #1 = Never having to worry about cartridges being discontinued. Buy bulk media and refill.
Option #2 = Standard 20" carbon block cartridges sell all over the place and will likely never be discontinued.
 
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jaedaliu

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I don't know what exactly you're talking about, but if it's the type of thing I used to install, you may need to drill through your sink to get a mounting hole for the spigot. That's not exactly fun.

Plumbing is pretty straightforward. Make sure you teflon seal or o ring your new connections. I used to install 3 stage filters (2 particle and 1 charcoal) before a reverse osmosis system. Out came great tasting water, but there are 2 problems.

1) I should have sold service contracts. Filters need to be replaced. I just let my customers take care of that themselves.

2) Reverse osmosis wastes a lot of water. I didn't know how much until I looked at wiki recently. I actually piped the waste water through a flexible tube to the outside. Moved the location daily, and kept my plants watered.
 
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Any name brand reverse-osmosis will do the trick, squirrelster. There are some good ones in the $200 range these days. Over half the houses I've been in since I moved to Canadia have one because the water is not that great here. I think my town water is one of the ingredents in xenomorph blood.
 
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