MichaelTampa
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Looks like our home needs repiping. Seems like CPVC is the way it is done these days. Copper is at least a theoretical possibility, but is much more expensive these days, and hard to even find someone to take us seriously in asking for an estimate for using copper.
We have been using Katadyn Gravidyn water filter, and some experiments I have done lead me to believe it may not clean the water of the chemicals the CPVC is going to leach into it.
I am thinking we may need to go to using a water distiller with carbon filter, thinking that may get the water more pure. But, distilled water is extremely acidic, I energy test very bad for it. I imagine it needs minerals added to have a chance of being good, but so far haven't found that energy test as being a good combination with the distilled water.
Reverse osmosis I hear wastes a lot of water, which is expensive where I live, and I also hear has the same issues of needing minerals added back.
Any thoughts on what to do for water with toxic CPVC pipes? Anyone have anything they're doing with water that they think would work well for this? Any ideas for adding back in to distilled water? Or any other water purification system you think will work well for this?
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Razzle
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I'd recommend looking into MultiPure water filters ( multipure.com ) - their carbon filters are able to remove quite a long list of chemicals from the water without removing the minerals.
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MichaelTampa
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Actually just did a little more research on prices of utilities. We actually pay about 1 cent per gallon of water, and about 10 cents per kilowatt hour.
This means, even for a reverse osmosis machine wasting 10 gallons of water for every pure gallon made, that is 10 cents per gallon of pure water. Compare this to about 35-40 cents per gallon of pure water for the electricity to make one gallon of distilled water, and it looks like the reverse osmosis could be cheaper. Really depends on how much those filters cost, but that puts reverse osmosis in need of serious consideration as well.
Anyone use reverse osmosis? Anyone add back minerals to reverse osmosis water?
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James1979
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I use RO water all the time, and I use ConcenTrace to add minerals back in before drinking. It's very easy, and it tastes good.
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