My wife is pushing for one of these very expensive home water treatment/filtration systems, but it all feels like a scam to me. No one I know has one, so turning to random strangers on the internet for opinions.

Edit: We’re on city water in a decent area. No well water. It’s more about removing the chlorine and microplastics than anything.

  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    RO is definitely the way to go, though interesting you couldn’t get it below what the meter could detect. Both of my RO setups get to 0 detectable from ~500ppm, and one’s only a three stage.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah I think my RO membrane probably isn’t a top quality one, as it has a rated TDS rejection rate of 97%, so absent of the mineral-adder, that probably tracks. I think the adder does throw about 20-30ppm back in and evens out the pH.

      • LurkingLuddite@piefed.socialEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yeah, a mineral re-adder will definitely bump the numbers back up. A lot of what those PPM measurers detect are those similar ions and such that trigger peoples’ tastebuds.