All a whole house filter usually is, is a sediment filter. It wouldn't do much for drinking water quality except for removing particles in the water. It would help faucets with screen filters and such from clogging so fast from sediment. But they don't do much for lime buildup, if you have a dissolved solid content in your water. Adding a carbon filter would clarify and remove a lot of odor from the tap water but would likely restrict flow too.
For drinking water a Reverse Osmosis system is what really works. But they have limitations too if your water supply has bacterial matter in it. I've had RO for years now. It strips just about everything out of the water, leaving it at or below 10ppm dissolved solids. (ppm is parts per million) That water is always good. I haven't changed my filters for at least 5 years and the water is still good.
Every region has its own properties in the water. Here, in Southern California, the water is hard, alkaline and has, at times, dissolved solids content of over 400ppm. It leaves water deposits on everything. Almost nothing dissolves in tap water here. Other regions have soft water with an acidic property. All the situations above and below a PH of 7.0 are caused by dissolved solids of one type or another. Acidic water is usually caused by water near a peat bogg or rock formations that are acidic in nature. RO will solve both situations for drinking water. Only the water gets through them.
Steve
I am thinking to install a whole house water filter, but I wonder if any of you have had experience with a water filter like that. Does it really make drinking water better? Because we live in an area with city water, but as I understand it, the water quality is awful. So wondering if a water filter will really help the content of particularly the drinking water so as not to pass on junk and that I don't have to continually carry bottles of water into the house. Thanks.
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