When you are shopping for drinking water filters, your first guide is product performance data. In some states, drinking water filter companies are required to provide this information along with their sales brochures. But regulation is not nationwide, so depending on where the company is located, they may not be able or willing to disclose performance facts.
The first rule for shopping for drinking water filters: Don't buy any drinking water filter that does not provide product performance data.
Product performance data sheets will allow you to compare the effectiveness of a product (what it leaves in, what it takes out), as well as the cost of use, either in terms of gallons of water filtered or in terms of time. It may be a little difficult to figure out at first, but here's the simplest formula that we have found.
On the average, each person uses 80-100 gallons of water per day, but most of that goes for flushing toilets and so does not apply to drinking water filters. The effectiveness of a drinking water filter that attaches to the kitchen tap should be based on how many people you have in your family and how much water you expect them to drink from the tap on any given day.
According to the Mayo Clinic, it is difficult to determine how much water a person needs on any given day. Factors like weight, exercise and sex come into play, as well as overall health.
According to the company that provides the #1 rated drinking water filters in America, a healthy adult needs at least eight 8 ounce glasses of water per day. Based on that ?rule of thumb?, their countertop drinking water filter will last six months before the cartridge needs to be replaced.
When evaluating drinking water filters, it is assumed that a family of four will drink about 500 gallons of water in six months. So, the cost of use for a drinking water filter takes into account the cost of replacement filters over a six month period or per 500 gallons.
Some companies are a little sneaky. They charge more for drinking water filters that are supposed to last longer, but the cost per gallon or per day is easier to compare. Let's go back to the #1 company, again. Their drinking water filter cost 9.6 cents per gallon.
In terms of cost per use, it is the least expensive drinking water filter on the market. Less effective drinking water filters cost more.
If you do some research, you will learn that cost is no indication of effectiveness or quality when it comes to a drinking water filter. We often think that you get what you pay for, but that is not the case here. The most technologically advanced drinking water filters on the market cost the least to use and are reasonably priced initially. Shop around, you'll see for yourself.
There are not only many types of water filters, there are many purposes for them. Most of the water filters that people are familiar with are for filtering impurities out of the water they drink. But you can also filter the water in your shower and even the water that goes to your washing machine. If you have a lot of minerals, sediment and other particulates in your water, you may want to filter the water you wash your clothes in to make sure that they will come out clean and white.
Most of these filters work to capture the sediment in the water before it goes into the tub of the washing machine where your clothes are going to go. This is done at a screen on a valve at the inlet to the washer. This allows the water to flow through, while taking out sediment. Since a washer uses a lot of water at a time for each wash, make sure you get the proper sized filter. Otherwise you will have to be changing hate filter constantly to make it work properly.
There are many brands of washing machine water filters, just as there are many brands of air coolers and they are manufactured both by water filter companies and washing machine companies. Whirlpool, Maytag, Kenmore, Frigidair, GE, make washers and excellent filters to use Whit them.
Companies that specialize in water filtering are also a good choice for washing machine filters, companies such as Rainsoft, Sprite Shower Filters, PUR, Omnipure, Aqua-Pure, American Plumber, Moen, Microline, Liquidate, Key tone, Incinerator, Hydro Tech, Holmes Air, Ever Pure, Gilligan and Brita. Even among this wide range of manufacturers, there is a wide range of types of filters for your washer. There are quick change filters, garden filters, ceramic filters and many speciality filters. You have to be careful to pick the right filter for your washer; not all brands of washers will supp port all brands of washing machine filters. Just to be sure, work with a company that will give you a warranty on their filter so that you can return it if anything goes wrong.
One of the most important elements in how well a filter of any kind will work is keeping the filter clean. This is a very small but necessary bit of maintenance that you have to keep up in order for the filter to work at its optimum.
Shut off the power to the washer to avoid any electrical shock, then find the water inlet valve. Visually check the filter for debris that may have collected on it. If there is a great deal of debris, you need to change the filter.
You will be very surprised at how nice your clothes will come out if you use a washing machine filter to keep the water that washes your clothes clean in the first place.
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