There are too many experts here to not ask this off topic question. Can you give me your recommendations for water filters. I'm not sure if I want whole house, individual at sink, a special one just for my on demand hot water heater, etc. I have a big blue whole house now and I'm not satisfied with it. Thanks.
No, I'm not a water-expert, but I gladly tell you my solution:
My watersource (near Gilmer, 75644, East Texas) is a 50 ft shallow-well and I'm using a jetpump.
All the water is filtered by a 1 gal-GE 30 µm filter.
The absorbed clay/sediment by the first filter from my well-water is around 2 gramm per cubic-meter, around 0.0007 lbs clay/cubic yard water.
And in this filtered condition it is used for irrigation. Because the irrigation is using "some" water, this filter is changed every month during summer, more seldom at other times. BTW: an ELK-system is doing regularly a cleaning by backflow. But this backflow-cleaning is not too effectiv because the filter-system does not support this by design.
The wateranalysis showed no abnormal content of anything.
And I'm not operating a swimming pool.
For the house I filter it again in a 2nd stage with a normal (TrueValue Standard) Filter with 3 µm (carbon) inserts. I made me a simple device for cleaning the cartridges while applying additional backflow, because this filter will be clogged every 1-3 weeks. This way I can use a cartride around 4 times.
This filter-treatment for my water seems to be sufficient for WC-flushing, shower, hand-washing and teethsbrushing.
And it is
on the limit for coffeewater, cooking and direct drinking. So I will install an addititional outlet in the kitchencorner for better filtered water in the future.
But every water, especially well-water, has another quality.
;-) Only the water, sold by Coke as Dasani, has the constant quality of ... city-water! But for me, this is too expensive for a shower.