Think I'mma pick up a ZeroWater filter pitcher soon:
- they come with a TDS meter, good for a 2nd opinion on my water hardness (we did a mail-to-a-lab test already)
- I can see how the result compares to bottled distilled water
- if their TDS chart is accurate and their meter agrees with our lab results…we have "EXTREME" hardness and a single filter will only get me like 8 gallons filtered water 🙃
- (with similar ramifications for eventual whole-house softening. tons-o-salt!)
Well, at least we're only in the /second/-worst category of water hardness going by #ZeroWater's "how long to expect your filter to last" scale. And in the middle of that zone, at that.
So ~10-12gal of water per filter (and if you factor in them obviously lowballing it, I'm hoping maybe even 14-15gal??).
OTOH, with humidifiers + some tea, I'm expecting to need possibly ~3.5gal/day, which means at /least/ 1 filter/week even if I round way up; probably more like 2x that.
#ZeroWater #water #filtration does work as advertised: 380ppm TDS down to 000ppm.
Naturally, the filtered water tastes worse; I'll have to see how it does as tea to find out if I want to remineralize it for that particular use case (which I imagine just means "mix it with the charcoal-filtered water from the fridge door", no need to buy minerals 😂)
Jeff Forcier