Good Morning. Water Filters?

Anybody have a whole-house water filter system? We had the AC guy over yesterday to fix the outside fan and I asked about the company's whole house water filtration system. $515 for the a 3-phase system. No reverse osmosis or anything. Wondering if anybody has a system or knows anything about them. The chemical/chlorine smell must be pretty bad...my mom comments on it every time she visits. Thought it might be a good thing to have to filter the water for coffee, showers, and even washing clothes to help with color fade. What do you guys think?

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If I could afford it, I would have a whole house water filter. I have a small reverse osmosis unit under my kitchen sink and I love it! The water has no taste or smell, keep a pitcher of water in the fridge and the kids love to drink water now.

Morning Gina. 
DH is off with DGD to take her to day care this morning.  I'm suppose to be getting ready to go to the hospital and then to work maybe.

We do have a filtering system.  Ours is through a local company.  We live in the country and have well water and it has too much iron(I think).  It destroys our washers in the facuets and to me it taste horrible so we got the system when we moved in 23 years ago.  We pay $26/month for them to maintain it and then yearly we have to pay a little over $100 for them to come and do a full maintenance and change all the chemicals out.  I don't think we paid an upfront cost, but it was so long ago.  I can't imagine not having mine.  We still drink the bottle water, because the water still has a taste if it is plain to me.  My parents love our well water!!

Linda

We have a filtration system under the kitchen sink. We have talked about getting a whole house system, but call me a freak, I like hard water for showers. I never feel like I get the soap rinsed off when the water is too pure or sof****er. No one drinks anything but the kitchen water. I buy water bottles, dump them out and fill with kitchen water because I like it so much (I re-use the bottles for a long time).

i use a brita pitcher filter in my apartment and a drugstore PUR one on the sink upstairs .

I think filtering drinking water is SO important these days ( have U ever SEEEN the toxic sludge on the bottom of the pot after U boil water for steam a few days ?) much worse since the terrorist threats to the water supply ...

i dont know about washing clothes and so forth . I discovered an ecologically friendly alternative detergent that works GREAT here in ultra hard water NY ( where people wear black and white not because its elegant but because the water makes colors look GRAY after 2 washings ) I asked after the brand when i saw my madly organic vegan neighbor's beautiful pinks and blues on the drying line ...

Its called PLANET ultra powdered laundry detergent . Comes in boxes ... cleans great and i just use Oxyclean on spots and collars and stuff right before i put things in ...

U can ALWAYS recognize a non - Manhattanite by their colorful attractive clothes and non - grimy look lol !! ( just for U out of towners .... don't ask the wrong person for directions .... the ones with the slightly greasy- looking hair and dressed mostly in black or dirty- looking jeans actually LIVE here .... LOL.


We DO need a whole house filter system for the NC red clay though ...so please keep us posted how it all works out if U do spend for it .....

We have well water so I don't notice any smell.  I hate taking a shower in a hotel with sof****er.  We do have some kind of filter that my DH changes every month to keep any red out of the hard water.

Our water is pretty good so I don't worry about showers etc. My shower water is supplied to the entire condo unit anyhow so I don't have a choice.

I keep a Britta next to the sink for drinking water and have filtered water delivered to my office.  I keep a case of bottled water in my car for when I'm out and about and haven't filled my Kleen Kanteen and remembered to take it along.  I've thought about getting an under the sink filtration system but I've been too lazy and they are expensive.

I absolutely love the taste of NYC water. It really is delicious (we call it "Chez Bloomberg", after our mayor), and I'm a water snob. ;)

In fact, the water out here (in Cleveland) makes me wanting to [gasp] buy some bottled water.

So I don't filter my water at all at home, but when I'm away, I take the low road and buy it.

I think there's something wonderful about being able to drink the water straight from the tap (in a vessel of some sort, I mean) and if adding a filter to your house would allow for that, I would think that $ well spent...