[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by olecapt

As I said my experience was in the industrial world. If you are going to have problems with your system they will likely occur after 6 years and perhaps after 10 or 12. And you will know if you have the problem at that time. The standard way for a PEX system to fail is to flood all or part of your house.

There are lots of people out there selling whole house RO systems. Generally pitch them to people dumb enough to fear trace elements. "You would not want to be ingesting uranium etc." Lots of the gullible buy that.

Originally Posted by olecapt

Arrowhead spring water is certainly filtered and uv disinfected and may in fact be ozone treated...Arrowhead drinking water is likely ROd.

I would expect the mineral content is doctored to make a uniform product.
I use a water softener and a point of use RO. I am on a well but also have no fear of trace elements.

So are you admitting to being gullible or am I misunderstanding something? I know that sounds snarky, but it honestly isn't meant to be. I am curious as to the difference between the two that makes you have a strong opinion about the whole house system, but have a POU unit.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

So are you admitting to being gullible or am I misunderstanding something? I know that sounds snarky, but it honestly isn't meant to be. I am curious as to the difference between the two that makes you have a strong opinion about the whole house system, but have a POU unit.

Actually it came with the house but I do maintain it.

I find the taste of our hard water undesirable in things like coffee. I am also on a well so contamination, while highly unlikely due to the nature of the well, is possible.

But pretty much of a taste thing. And I do drink our water directly...and it tastes a lot better than SNWA water.

One of my prize possession is a bottle of SNWA water given out by SNWA at a public disclosure meeting. Why I love it is that it has a disclaimer that the water in the bottle was ROd in Phoenix.

[MSchu]

does anyone know if there is a correlation with high calcite content water and gout disease?

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Actually it came with the house but I do maintain it.

I find the taste of our hard water undesirable in things like coffee. I am also on a well so contamination, while highly unlikely due to the nature of the well, is possible.

But pretty much of a taste thing. And I do drink our water directly...and it tastes a lot better than SNWA water.

One of my prize possession is a bottle of SNWA water given out by SNWA at a public disclosure meeting. Why I love it is that it has a disclaimer that the water in the bottle was ROd in Phoenix.

That's funny!!

I'm the same about hard water. Mrs. Tek is originally from Chicago. I hate drinking the water there. Somehow a layer of "something" floating on top of my cup of coffee just doesn't strike me right.

[wwu123]

Are folks distinguishing between RO and RO/ DI systems? The latter is commonly sold for aquariums, but they usually have a splitter before the de-ionization for drinking water.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by wwu123

Are folks distinguishing between RO and RO/ DI systems? The latter is commonly sold for aquariums, but they usually have a splitter before the de-ionization for drinking water.

No, folks are not distinguishing. They're taking some third-hand thing they heard about industrial RO systems and plumbing problems, and applying that "knowledge."

My GE RO system came with a 20-year warranty on the existing plumbing in the house, which is one of the reasons I bought it. But Cap'n Baloney obviously picked up a PhD in chemistry somewhere between being the lead engineer on the Nautilus and the head designer of the "third straw" system in Lake Mead. He says he knows better. Of course that's what he says. That's what he ALWAYS says, after all.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

No, folks are not distinguishing. They're taking some third-hand thing they heard about industrial RO systems and plumbing problems, and applying that "knowledge."

My GE RO system came with a 20-year warranty on the existing plumbing in the house, which is one of the reasons I bought it. But Cap'n Baloney obviously picked up a PhD in chemistry somewhere between being the lead engineer on the Nautilus and the head designer of the "third straw" system in Lake Mead. He says he knows better. Of course that's what he says. That's what he ALWAYS says, after all.

And I am sure the fact that it is you who has the GE RO warranty guarantees that no plumbing leak could occur.

A fool and his $5,000 are soon separated.

DI is an overkill for drinking water. I suspect though I don't know the field that it comes up in things like salt water aquariums where they want precise control of everything in the water. Overkill for drinking water. And I suspect reasonably expensive for volume use.