Water filter

[bobquasit]

I give up. The DuPont faucet filter had the same problems that all the other ones did; roughly one out of four filters worked properly, and the rest lasted a week or less.

Our water is NOT hard or particularly bad. So my best guess is that hot water is occasionally feeding into the cold water, and thereby ruining the filters.

So this weekend we bought a Brita dispenser, one of the big ones with a tap in the front, and put it in the refrigerator. We'll see how it works out. I'm going to fill it by filling up a pitcher and then pouring that water into the dispenser; that way if there's a surge of hot water, it will never reach the filter (the heat being moderated by being mixed with all the water in the pitcher first). Also, the filter itself will be cooler because it's in the refrigerator!

Unfortunately the Brita filter apparently doesn't filter anywhere near as much stuff as the DuPont did, but we can't afford to buy new filters every week.

Comments

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Its weird that your plumbing system is doing that.... usually the feeds for each line (Hot/cold) are different pipes. My guess its a problem with the sink valve. Is it a single valve control for hot and cold, or different valves underneath the sink?

Is there anything else that they say the filters have trouble with, like Chlorine levels? It could be the city/county is randomly pushing thru too much on the the line.... I know RI is notorious for water problems in various areas and random 'Boil only' rules because of contaminations that get into the system.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if there's a single valve, but there's a single control - a lever that you move left, right, forward and back to control temperature and flow.

Maybe the problem is because we have a coil hot water system, instead of a tank.

I had no idea that RI water was notoriously bad!