Fridge without water dispenser. Sink water filter sufficient?
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Comments (3)Instead of using the small, overpriced filter that comes with the fridge, install a large, multi-cartridge filter system. See link for the company I have dealt with for years. Beside using larger filters, all the ones they sell are standard-sized units, meaning lots of available choices. An under sink unit (which can feed both a fridge and a faucet with a simple 'T' connection) with 2 or three filters should do the trick. Just figure out which cartridges you need, then buy a system that will hold that number of cartridges. If in doubt, give them a call for assistance. Here is a link that might be useful: Water filter systems...See MoreBest way to get filtered water if NOT in your fridge?
Comments (34)Fishes, There is basically not a single best fit answer for everyone. Do you know about the quality of your water? What do you want to filter? In our case we have very hard water and a very high level of nitrates and phosphates as some of the city source is well water. So we are going with the K5 reverse osmosis system by kinetico..same as Beekeeper'swife. More expensive but we need it. Our softened water will feed it and I hope to get a drinking water faucet in the prep sink and also feed the pot filler. The K5 system can be installed in the attic and feed the storage tank(which incidentally is bigger in kinetico). I am actually not doing any ice maker. Decided to buy ice instead as we use ice rarely and the ice maker takes too much room in the sub zero freezer drawer. I am tempted by the instant hot (it would be lovely to quickly grab green tea when I am busy during the day but Then with the induction, it does seem a bit much. Lalitha Lalitha...See MoreFridge Water Dispenser AND a Filtered Water tap??
Comments (6)it makes sense to think about this now and not later. it makes sense to protect your coffee machine. Your filtered water can feed a supply that then itself branches to the fridge AND to the bar tap / coffee tap. Where the water supply branches to go to the fridge is where you can put a filter behind the scenes, or anywhere else near the fridge, near the sink, or in an unused space around there, even on the far side of the fridge. The additional elbows do not reduce flow by anything significant. It's the filter that will reduce the flow, but this is not a concern for the two lines you are discussing. some people have a filter on all the cold tap in all the faucets, including those faucets that mix with hot water. In that case, they want a higher flow (not a reduced flow) so it's either a cheap filter that doesn't remove much, or it's a 2-tank system. That is what i have seen or heard. anything i write out is given as background information, not a recommendation to take any action. You could have two filters in line: one cheap, one expensive. The cheap one intercepts the bulk stuff; the expensive one does the higher quality job it is supposed to. Cheap might mean a GE bought at HD for 2 or 3 of your cute $20 bills. Expensive might mean the kind of filter that costs many times more than that, and which you can only get from a high end kitchen showroom, and only if you ask. You could put an RO rnear the bar / coffee spot, instead of running RO water through supply lines. (less chance of leaching minerals out of the pipes on the way to the spout). If anyone local tells you that RO is not needed with your water, they may have a very strong point. RO may be overkill, but a high end filter may be good. This is another subject. I don't know what Toronto water is like, speaking minerally; I have heard that it's taken from somewhere deep in Lake Ontario and therefore always really cold even in summer. I suppose that Some of the people who work in high end coffee machine sales or kitchen fixture sales will be able to guide you about minerals....See MoreConnecting reverse osmosis water filter to fridge only
Comments (2)A different and inherently more expensive type of RO system may be needed, depending on whether you can adapt what you have. Nominally, an RO membrane (preceded by some set of filters) will produce filtered water and waste (brine) until the back pressure approaches some fraction of the input pressure. The filtered water would go to a pressure storage tank and thence to the faucet or refrigerator, the brine is dumped into a drain pipe. Unfortunately, this simple description would lead to a brine flow that was always on. Hence the special faucet that controls the input to the RO filter. To get more output pressure and avoid this type of faucet, pumping schemes that lower the pressure on the output of the RO membrane while increasing it into the pressure storage tank are used along with simple controllers. (SpectraPure sells pumps for this purpose.) One type uses the brine pressure itself to drive the pump. For control one also needs pressure sensors, a controller, and a water flow cut-off solenoid. kas...See Moreskipper328
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