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Can anyone recommend a good efficient water filter? I spend hundreds of pounds on a fancy one connected to the sink with its own tap but the filters were expensive and had to be replaced every six months.
I want a jug type with cheap filter replacement that works. Our water has a lot of chemicals and I am thirsty.
Mate you are going to love me.
Get your self a bench one that has changeable plastic filters that go into the top of the jug.
You buy a pack of four or two they last for about a 100 litres.
Heres the thing :cool: theres some slits in the cap so once there done after a month or so you can loosen the cap off by prying one off you then have on the inside a light synthetic filter pad under it about three tablespoons of activated carbon then on the bottom another piece of cloth.
Go to a pet shop, get a bag of filter wool,(used for fish tanks) and get a bag of activated carbon.
Every month you empty it out and put a touch of wool on the bottom. Get out some carbon its in little chunks, and you put it in a sieve and wash it under the hot tap and move it around with the spoon to remove any dust,spoon it in until its just down from the top of the cap, then turn the cap upside down and fill that with some filter wool and if you've been careful removing the cap it will snap back into the the top of the removable filter,Do that every month save us a fortune.
Only thing it doesnt remove is fluoride that requires a smaller holed filter and another process only a few of the under sink ones come with.
Cheaper under sink ones mostly have a carbon and wool style filter that you have to replace at a considerable cost.If you get one of those just empty and refill it the same way.
15 dollars buys you enough carbon and wool to last about 10 years its very cheap in pet shops cause tanks use a fair bit to keep freshwater fish alive in pure water.
I think mines a Steffani but it fits brita filters too. Most makes are similar just have different styles of filters that slip into the top section.
mine is this one, About 25 bucks,12 pounds for the whole unit including two filters.
http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j0...Filter-Jug.jpg
If you want to take out all chemicals I think you have to have an under bench ceramic filter or better still reverse osmosis type.
Thanks Andre I will check it out.
My dad boils the water and the puts it in the fridge and drinks from that.
Yeah we used to boil it but really the water isnt germy at all and boiling doesnt get rid of fluoride ,I used to think it did a bit, but I think maybe only a touch of chlorine may go in boiling it.
We have an instant gas hot water service so for hot water it isnt instant and you get between the tap and the hot water service cold water laying in the pipes that first runs out for a minute before it gets hot,so I run that cold water into spare jugs instead of down the sink, then use that through the day to filter for drinking, also use the filtered stuff for in the kettle too.
You know your stuff and water is rare commodity and really appreciated out there.
Every four months I do a CostCo run and buy...
72 two litre bottles of water
30 500 ml bottles
48 bottles of fruit flavored water
I must be gay :-\
That must cost you a fortune why don't you get a filter if you are that obsessed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKO
costco is dirt cheap for water
can't be arsed with filter
you knob
Drink from puddles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
I make water taste better by adding Vimto.
Vimto:confused: Mexican for boxers urine?Quote:
Originally Posted by Memphis
It is like squashQuote:
Originally Posted by AndreVimto:confused: Mexican for boxers urine?Quote:
Originally Posted by Memphis
Cordial?
No more rude. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre
Hahaha,very good :cool:.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterNo more rude. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre
Would you care for an orange juice Sir?
"Yeah I suppose, if it needed me."
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Originally Posted by Memphis
Me 2 I have every flavour known to mankind.
We take water for grant it in this country. No filters needed here but lots use them anyway. The Breta screw on type right to the tap is used a fair bit.
I can go to the river and drink out of it or any stream I come across in the bush.
My dad used to tell me when I was a young adult that he believed the next world war would be fought over water.
He could be right in some areas, unless we change our agriculture around,I read it takes two tonnes of water to grow enough wheat to make one loaf of bread. Australia is about to go into its elnino pattern again so rain will be scarce for 7 years. We just build a water desalination plant so drinking water is fine but our crops will suffer.Quote:
Originally Posted by IamInuitQuote:
Originally Posted by Memphis
Me 2 I have every flavour known to mankind.
We take water for grant it in this country. No filters needed here but lots use them anyway. The Breta screw on type right to the tap is used a fair bit.
I can go to the river and drink out of it or any stream I come across in the bush.
My dad used to tell me when I was a young adult that he believed the next world war would be fought over water.
What the he'll IS wrong with the water in your countries. We have our water here in the US tested for impurities and it is as clean as NVsemins urine. If I were you guys I would move. If my water isn't pure I'm out. We do of course have issues with water around some fracking areas but that usually only effects rednecks so it only half counts.
Clean water? There is nothing between us and sth Africa I think we have that claim owned here.Our governments yours too put chemicals in it and harsh industrial pollution comes down in rain. Truth is if you have open reservoirs in country areas criminals put a few dead people into them too and all the rivers that run into them. Boats can legally zoom around in reservoirs leaving their pollution too,skiers piss you name it its in there. By the time all that is distributed into trillions x trillions of cubic meters of water you dont get to read about any of those little extras on the scale of acceptable microbes per milliliter or whatever it is they've decided on is ok.
Anyway shit is accumulative in your system so you can get those added microbes out of there and what chemicals you can afford to at the tap.
Or trust your government blindly.
Fluoride is a killer, instant if undiluted and thats just if you touch it, you'll lose your hand in a bucket of it then your life a few minutes later. Long term ingestion of small amounts: well at least your cancer ridden corpse or your bodies overloaded lymphatic system will have nice teeth ;D
So with ok teeth you can keep consuming the other deadly poison that causes so much diabetes in the world that sweet poison they allow into everything you buy even orange juice (refined white sugar).
:cool: how cool the whole set up is worth mega trillions they can pretend to care while its really kill, cure, crops, chemicals. Hopefully you have strong dna or a fine bank account to afford the real cure instead of the radiation kill or cure one. They can afford to pretend to care, in between it all are real scientists and medicos who do care but the decisions dont stop or start with them.
I don't trust the government but I live in an area of the US known for good water. I do think the fluoride thing is unconstitutional as it forces people to take medicine but Americans are known for good teeth. A few dead bodies in a large body of water are not going to have much effect. We also have a lot of personal wells for homes here. I bring my water to a lab to have it tested and it is superbQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre
We have fluoride in our water and we all have bad teeth.
Well, that shoots my theory. I guess we just got the good tooth gene over here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdiJOPJT7gQuote:
Originally Posted by walrusWell, that shoots my theory. I guess we just got the good tooth gene over here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
Says it all really, this fuckwit doesnt feed his dawgs right so has to brush their teeth and from what he says also wipe their ass for them!
Processed foods is their problem but they wont stop feeding it to themselves or their dogs.