Are Water Filters a Major Concern
Looking for info on water filters. For 40+ years we’ve been primarily in MI and have not had problems with water quality. At times a smell but we now use bottled for drinking and cooking. I do re...
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Yes, Filters are important. Some Campgrounds use well water and in the Midwest that means lots of dirt and not a little bit of stuff from agriculture.
A larger 10 inch x 4inch whole house filter will flow more water than the smaller 20x 2.5 inch filter, if it has effective filtration.
Some of the filters will get lead and so on and a bunch of biological nasties. The blue filter from Cw for the 10x2.5 filter has very good specs but won't flow a much as we like. It does pretty well though. The filter I was getting from Lowes has has been cheapened since, I bought the last one over two years ago. and only specs sediment and chlorine but it will last al ong time and flows great. It's only 25 microns.
I'fe got one ceramic filter that .09 micron but doesn't flow great and is a bear to clean. So...I'm going to order a 10x4 ceramic off the net. They will get all the nasties and use the other filter for pre filtering sediment etc.
When in La two or three years ago. The large filter got a lot of stuff including sulfur but the ceramic filter after that caught a lot of stuff that got through. It left the filter black and brown.
So the best filtering you can get is not too much. You can get by with less maybe. Look at all the older Folks, and some younger, from Michigan etc that drank well or even municipal water. Their teeth are horrible. That is from feretilzer and chemicals and natural things now in farm country water. And all those nasties that cause our bowels to explode and more.
A larger 10 inch x 4inch whole house filter will flow more water than the smaller 20x 2.5 inch filter, if it has effective filtration.
Some of the filters will get lead and so on and a bunch of biological nasties. The blue filter from Cw for the 10x2.5 filter has very good specs but won't flow a much as we like. It does pretty well though. The filter I was getting from Lowes has has been cheapened since, I bought the last one over two years ago. and only specs sediment and chlorine but it will last al ong time and flows great. It's only 25 microns.
I'fe got one ceramic filter that .09 micron but doesn't flow great and is a bear to clean. So...I'm going to order a 10x4 ceramic off the net. They will get all the nasties and use the other filter for pre filtering sediment etc.
When in La two or three years ago. The large filter got a lot of stuff including sulfur but the ceramic filter after that caught a lot of stuff that got through. It left the filter black and brown.
So the best filtering you can get is not too much. You can get by with less maybe. Look at all the older Folks, and some younger, from Michigan etc that drank well or even municipal water. Their teeth are horrible. That is from feretilzer and chemicals and natural things now in farm country water. And all those nasties that cause our bowels to explode and more.
