Water filter advice, anyone?

[Kristine out of lurking]

We need some type of water filter. We're on a well, and our water has a ton of iron in it. We want to avoid a water softener, and we currently get drinking water out of our refrigerator (which of course is filtered).

What about those things that stick on the kitchen faucet? Or are they a huge pain? What DO I want? What kind? How do I know?

:bigear:

I'm all ears....

[Jean in Newcastle]

My SIL has a PUR water filter on her faucet. It seems to work well for her. I would think that you would want to google specific brands to see what exactly they filter out. I've seen charts that show what minerals, organisms etc. are filtered out for some filters. In your case I would want to make sure that iron was one of them. Other than that, I don't really know much about this but wanted to respond to your "lonely post"!

[Sahamamama]

We had a PUR at our apartment and it worked well for us there, but when we moved into our house, in a different town/water system, there was too much sediment in the water -- how reassuring is THAT? -- for the PUR filter to manage.

We had to change the filter all the time, so my sweet and wonderful husband did some research. We ended up getting an Aquasana countertop filter. This filter does do the job -- there is a pre-filter, which we change about every 3-4 weeks. There is the main filter, which we change every 6 months or 500 gallons. My husband has it set up so that Aquasana sends us the replacement filters automatically in the mail. It's great.

If you don't have a lot of sediment, perhaps the PUR will work (we have one in the basement with about 6 unused cartridges -- want it?). But we found that the Aquasana was better for "thick" water. Hope you find something that works for you!

[Mamagistra]

We have very hard well water (a softener is a must) and started out using a Brita filter on the faucet. It worked pretty well, though the faucet part did give out after a while.

After we tested our water and found it high in copper, dee-aitch installed a reverse osmosis filter with a dedicated faucet at the sink. The water tastes very pure and clean.

HTH a bit. :)

[Doran]

...a company called MultiPure (http://www.multipureco.com/)

We opted for this higher end model because we felt the quality of the filter would directly correlate to the quality of the output. We have an undersink model for our kitchen sink, and a countertop model for the bathroom. In both cases, the water comes out from a separate spout and is activated by a little push-pin valve on the main spout of the faucet.

We've been very happy with these filters.

[GVD22]

We use and love the PUR

[Elohcin]

We just got a multipure two weeks ago, two actually-one for the kitchen and one for the kids bath. Love it so far and it really makes a difference (at least with taste) in our water. We bought it from Urban Homemaker.
HTH