The tap water in most American homes is treated, not clean. Chlorine or chloramine goes in at the plant to kill bacteria, and that residual keeps working its way through the pipes to your shower. It also reacts with organic matter to make disinfection byproducts like trihalomethanes. On top of that you may have sediment … Read more
Cloudy water after a heavy rain, orange flecks in the bathtub, a grit film inside your dishwasher, and a softening resin bed that clogs in a single season all trace back to the same fix: a mechanical filter at the point of entry, upstream of everything else. After logging pressure readings, flow rates and replacement … Read more
If you have five or more people under one roof, the usual advice about whole house water filters quietly falls apart. A unit marketed as a one-year, 100,000-gallon system was almost certainly sized for a family of four washing machine loads on a weekend, not a household running two showers, a dishwasher and a laundry … Read more
Yes, shower filters do reduce chlorine in your shower water, but only the filters built around the right media do it well. Carbon, KDF-55 and calcium sulfite handle free chlorine. Vitamin C neutralizes chloramine as well. Most cheap multi-stage filters do a decent job on smell and very little else. Chlorine is dosed into municipal … Read more
If you are choosing among the best whole house water filters for iron removal, the short answer is that only some of them qualify. The systems that actually pull iron out of well water are the catalytic media and air injection oxidation designs, not the carbon blocks people mistake for iron filters. Iron is an … Read more