Considering Whole House Water Filters?
The price variable is truly amazing.
They range from a low of $999 to over $10,000.
What's the difference? Here's what I learned.
There is a whole house water filter that will remove everything naturally present in groundwater, except chemical contaminants.
That only makes sense if you know that your well is free of chemicals and you want to drink something that's de-mineralized on a daily basis.
It doesn't actually make sense, because there is no well that is free of chemicals.
Some of them are naturally occurring substances, but that doesn't mean they are safe.
Did you read the stories a while back about the perchlorate found on Mars.
Many people were surprised because the chemical is a component of rocket fuel, but they didn't know that it is also a naturally occurring substance.
It is present worldwide and it can disrupt the function of the thyroid gland.
That's only one example of the health hazards that are in our waters.
A whole house water filter must address the issue of chemical contamination, if you want to protect your health.
Keep that in mind.
The idea of whole house water filters that remove all of the naturally occurring minerals is a little extreme.
The pH level would be unbalanced.
The taste would be stale and unpleasant.
Drinking it on a regular basis could cause electrolyte imbalances within the body and nutritional deficiencies.
A whole house water filter can be a "selective" filtration device, meaning it removes the hazards, without removing all of the minerals.
Once you narrow down your selection to only those products that use selective filtration, there are still some strangely overpriced products.
Whole house water filters that use selective filtration range in price from $999 to $5950.
If you compare certified product performance data, you will see that the most expensive and the least expensive do exactly the same things.
Again, you have to wonder what the difference is.
It took a little research, but I finally learned that the high priced whole house water filter is supposed to provide additional health benefits.
According to the manufacturer, igneous stones from Japan are used to transfer antibacterial and antifungal properties to the waters that pass through their whole house water filters.
My associates and I tried to find some scientific research to support their claims.
We learned that one of the rocks was recommended for use on farms because of its highly porous nature.
But, that didn't support the manufacturer's health claims.
It did explain why they might use it, since water would pass through the porous structure, but we could find no other scientific studies that even mentioned the stones.
The "stones" that a whole house water filter should contain are carbon granules, because they remove a variety of chemical contaminants.
So, as it turns out, the least expensive whole house water filters are actually the best on the market.
For about $20 per month, you can clean all of the water that your family needs.
Why pay more, when you don't have to?
They range from a low of $999 to over $10,000.
What's the difference? Here's what I learned.
There is a whole house water filter that will remove everything naturally present in groundwater, except chemical contaminants.
That only makes sense if you know that your well is free of chemicals and you want to drink something that's de-mineralized on a daily basis.
It doesn't actually make sense, because there is no well that is free of chemicals.
Some of them are naturally occurring substances, but that doesn't mean they are safe.
Did you read the stories a while back about the perchlorate found on Mars.
Many people were surprised because the chemical is a component of rocket fuel, but they didn't know that it is also a naturally occurring substance.
It is present worldwide and it can disrupt the function of the thyroid gland.
That's only one example of the health hazards that are in our waters.
A whole house water filter must address the issue of chemical contamination, if you want to protect your health.
Keep that in mind.
The idea of whole house water filters that remove all of the naturally occurring minerals is a little extreme.
The pH level would be unbalanced.
The taste would be stale and unpleasant.
Drinking it on a regular basis could cause electrolyte imbalances within the body and nutritional deficiencies.
A whole house water filter can be a "selective" filtration device, meaning it removes the hazards, without removing all of the minerals.
Once you narrow down your selection to only those products that use selective filtration, there are still some strangely overpriced products.
Whole house water filters that use selective filtration range in price from $999 to $5950.
If you compare certified product performance data, you will see that the most expensive and the least expensive do exactly the same things.
Again, you have to wonder what the difference is.
It took a little research, but I finally learned that the high priced whole house water filter is supposed to provide additional health benefits.
According to the manufacturer, igneous stones from Japan are used to transfer antibacterial and antifungal properties to the waters that pass through their whole house water filters.
My associates and I tried to find some scientific research to support their claims.
We learned that one of the rocks was recommended for use on farms because of its highly porous nature.
But, that didn't support the manufacturer's health claims.
It did explain why they might use it, since water would pass through the porous structure, but we could find no other scientific studies that even mentioned the stones.
The "stones" that a whole house water filter should contain are carbon granules, because they remove a variety of chemical contaminants.
So, as it turns out, the least expensive whole house water filters are actually the best on the market.
For about $20 per month, you can clean all of the water that your family needs.
Why pay more, when you don't have to?
