Water Filters

[fft100]

With a couple of young ones in the house, i have been looking at installing either a whole house water filter, or under counter ones that would supply both the hot and cold water feed.

But, researching this is proving to be a highly frustrating job.

As always when buying something i like to get some comparisons/tests to see if it actually does what it says on the tin.

The comparison and consumer sites in europe and usa have many water filters, but they dont seem to be available in Thailand. They are available in Malaysia, Singapore etc, but not here.

On the flip side, the filter companies that you see in Homepro and elsewhere appear to be Thai only companies. Clarte sounds french - but no sign of it anywhere outside Thailand. Fujika sounds Japanese, but it was founded 5 or 6 years ago in Thailand.

Given the lack of consumer protection laws, consumers associations, trading standards, environmetal acts etc, how much can i trust the claims on the packaging here ? I always remember back in the 1970's on nationwide (before watchdog came along) when a 'stereo' radio was taken apart and found to be no more than 2 cardboard tubes (toilet roll style) going to the speakers.

How confident can i be about products that dont seem to appear in any independent tests, and dont seem to be exported (to face tests overseas). In the tests in USA and elsewhere, with a far more stringent marketplace, not all the filters did what they claimed. What is the chance here ?

I am still in the market for water filters, but short of importing one (which i am sure is prohibitively expensive), how can i tell that it is actually doing what it is supposed to. I could buy one and then check water samples, but that seems like putting the cart before the horse....

Anyone any ideas, useful websites (perhaps Thai ones have more info), or just practical experience.

thanks

[Nereus]

The first thing to establish is the quality of your existing water supply. Is it from underground or Government?
Do you have a holding tank that will settle out some of the heavier contamination?

You need to know what you are trying to filter out before deciding how to do it.

[c.g]

we can offer a filter as in the attached below we run the filter with zelbrite media and then we recomend the use of a 3 chamber filter in the house if you are wanting drinking water. i use this on my house and have no problems with drinking the water we have goverment water not ground..


http://www.powerbuy.co.th/ProductDetail ... B000177245



http://www.zelbrite.com/

Cheers Chris
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