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luvmydogs
Explorer
Jul 28, 2015

Help/Advice on those water filters

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right forum, please tell me if I'm not. We are full timers for about 4 months now. We travel with 2 dogs and 2 cats. We buy bottled water from the grocery for all of us. Our last rental house had awful well water so we started buying bottled water. At about a dollar a jug it's getting expensive, but I'm not sure that I want to take the chance of us or my animals getting ****py water. So this weekend I saw a few trailers with this filter thing hooked on to the water connection. So I'd like to ask for opinions or advice on these things. If I was to connect one of these, would I be able to stop buying bottled water or do they just make bad water better? It's a white canister looking thing and I did see a Camco one in Walmart for about 20 bucks. Any advice? Buy one or stay with bottled?
  • darsben's avatar
    darsben
    Explorer II
    Jul 28, 2015
    As all cg water must be tested and chlorinated why are you worried. The filters DO NOT remove germs and most contaminants.
    By the way some bottled water is worse than city water as far a contaminants.
    IT IS A MYTH THAT BOTTLED WATER IS BETTER AND CONTAINS NO CONTAMINANTS. All bottled water has to do is meet the same standard as tap water
  • Trackrig's avatar
    Trackrig
    Explorer II
    Jul 28, 2015
    What you suggested may work for you, it does a lot of people. One of the things you'll quickly learn full timing is the water is different all over the country. The easiest way to take care of it is get a three filter system. One would be a carbon filter, one a sediment filter and I forget what our third one is. Go to the RV filter store web site, look around and then call them.

    On our DP there was one filter already so we only had to buy an additional two filter set up to go with it. This set up also takes care of calcium spotting dishes and glasses when you're in the south west.

    RV Filter Store

    We've got about 14 months on our first set of filters and we travel with two sets of spares, but haven't had to change them yet. After 14 months I think they're still doing well as no spotting from calcium, and there's no slow down in water volume.

    Bill

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