TheMaster

I have a customer who is wanting a whole house water filter. She wants all the chlorine and "other things" as she put it removed. She is most intrested in improving the taste of the water. The home has a 1" pvc water main and plenty of bushes to hide it behind. Any one have a sugegstion on a quality unit?

Kind of ironic when I suggested just last week for some one to install a chlorine injection system. Their water almost boils its so hot...maybe they wont have any stink issues.

Protech

If the chlorine taste and odor is the main concern, a high volume carbon filter is the ticket.

Now it you want to remove everything it's gonna get expensive. You'll need a softener (if the water is hard) and then a whole house RO unit and then an acid neutralizer. Big bucks.

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Miguel

Bushes and stuff to hide it??? Oh yeah! You guys can keep your water supplies and equipment exposed to the great outdoors all year round! Must be nice.

If cartridges aren't an issue (they have to be replaced periodically) then just calculate the flow requirements and install a cartridge sump(s) sized accordingly and use an activated carbon filter cartridge in it. Someone will have to come and clean, sterilize and replace the carbon filter at 3 month intervals (minimum! mebbe more frequently depending on local conditions. ie: more often in hot weather and/or if the chlorine residual is quite high.)

Another option is a cylinder and valve w/ backwash (1.5 - 2.0 cu ft for most residential uses) that'll still require routine maintainance, however you're down to once or twice annually and the media should last 2 or 3 years before it needs to be replaced.

And if she's really paranoid about all the squigglies and the heebie-jeebies that might be in her water then you'll also want to filter down to 1 micron absolute to take care of that.

But activated charcoal is the best at removing taste and odor, especially from chlorinated water. (I'm assuming she's connected to a municipal system.)

Edit: and what Pro said, too. ^

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vinpadalino

I deal with Masters water conditioning. They have great stackable units. Last week I put a softener/water filter in. 1 unit does both. The best part is no cartridges to mess with. Every 7 days it cleans it self out.
She sounds like more of a taste issue then turbidity. Maybe a revers osmoses under kitchen sink? All I know theres great money in that type of work.

plumjoe

http://www.betterwaternow.com/odorless.aspx use to install these but warn customer if they have kids it also removes fluoride so dentist bills might go up

TheMaster

I want somthing with a stainless steel housing and a choice of filters. It needs to filter the entire home.

Airgap

Aquapure makes a nice ss filter housing that holds several cartridges depending on usage....

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stillaround

Everpure has a good name...T-20 whole house but I've never used one.

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Plumbworker

look into some of the honeywell brass units mainly for sediment removal

http://customer.honeywell.com/Honeyw...CFB4218DD64%7d

Richard Hilliard

http://www.h2oconcepts.com/default.asp

This is a fiberglass unit with stainless wrapping. Very good unit however it is very expensive.Basing price against maintenance of a water softner,ro system and upkeep during its lifetime equals out.


Have installed a few everpures and it needs yearly maintenance and does a nice job .