Which type of water filter should I buy?

[Batty]

Hello chaps

 

I would like to get a water filter system installed at home, but I see there are a whole bunch of different options available, and my mind is a little blown by it all to be honest. I havent been in the best of health for a month or two and I am just absolutley knackered half the time - I havent got it in me to sit online reasearching this.

 

Could anyone just give me a heads up on what type of system to buy? Very loosly speaking I am after those cylinders that are fixed under the sink, attached to a small pump and connected to the kitchen tap.

 

I cant go crazy on price - just a budget option around 5,000 THB.

 

Im not expecting anyone to give me an actual specific model (unless you want to) but rather just a heads up on what it is I need to be looking for. What 'type' of system to purchase?

Really appreciate it

Batty

[Crossy]

What's your water source? Do you have a holding tank and pump?

 

We have an incoming "crunchy bits" filter that keeps the grit out of the holding tank (we have a decent mains water supply). Drinking water goes through an RO + UV unit, the rest of the house just uses water from the tank.

 

Something like this https://globalhouse.co.th/product/detail/2011172029956

 

 

The RO unit does make the water taste a bit better but I still clean my teeth in the water from the tank, I've not grown an extra arm yet.

 

 

[connda]

Reverse Osmosis at home.
Berkey water filter for emergencies.

[connda]

22 minutes ago, Crossy said:

What's your water source? Do you have a holding tank and pump?

 

We have an incoming "crunchy bits" filter that keeps the grit out of the holding tank (we have a decent mains water supply). Drinking water goes through an RO + UV unit, the rest of the house just uses water from the tank.

 

Something like this https://globalhouse.co.th/product/detail/2011172029956

 

 

The RO unit does make the water taste a bit better but I still clean my teeth in the water from the tank, I've not grown an extra arm yet.

 

 

Me too. 

[rwill]

One bad thing about RO systems is that they waste a lot of water.  Most of the water doesn't pass through the membrane is sent down your drain.

[rwill]

If you are just using it for drinking water you don't need to put a pump under the sink.  A lot of the units come with their own little faucet which you can put through your sink if it has an extra whole in it.  Like the one Crossy put a picture of.

[proton]

Pure or Coway are the better ones, pure has UV filter as well. We have pure system but the mrs still wants to buy bottled ????

[khunPer]

4 hours ago, Batty said:

Could anyone just give me a heads up on what type of system to buy? Very loosly speaking I am after those cylinders that are fixed under the sink, attached to a small pump and connected to the kitchen tap.

 

I cant go crazy on price - just a budget option around 5,000 THB.

Actually, you should have the tap water-supply checked for what kind of filtering is used, especially if you intend to use it as drinking water.

 

Otherwise a two or three filter system on the water inlet would be sufficient.

 

A 5-10 micron dirt filter, which need to be changed regularly depending of dirt, which can be one a week or once a month; those kind of filter costs less than 50 baht each, and can be bought either in Mr. DIY or from Lazada, the latter offers the best quality, like US-brand Lambda-filters.

 

Eventual a charcoal carbon filter – if a three filter system is used – to remove bad taste and smell from the water.

 

A 0.5 micron ceramic filter, which states to remove up to 99.99 percent of common bacteria and other nasty stuff. The ceramic filter might need to be changed semiannually or yearly. It costs around 300 baht, cheapest to buy online from for example Lazada.

 

If you are going to use the water as drinking water you might consider an UV-lamp also – which is what is used for cleaning water in ice-factories – but that feature might be beyond your budget.

 

The tree filter type I mentioned...

[unheard]

@Batty

"Im not expecting anyone to give me an actual specific model (unless you want to) but rather just a heads up on what it is I need to be looking for."

 

It largely depends on the quality of your water source.

It's usually recommended to get a Reverse Osmosis system (RO).

 

RO systems remove pretty much all impurities.

With RO you have two options - a cheaper one with a tank and a more expensive one without.

The more advanced tank-less systems work in "real time" - they don't need to use storage tanks (which need to be periodically sanitized) to store filtered water, have higher output, normally monitor the quality of filtered water and use filter replacement alerts based on the filter's actual usage.

 

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Edited March 14, 2023 by unheard

[Luuk Chaai]

We use a FL-001   5 stage   neatly packed under the  sink inside a cabinet ..  skipped the  seperate faucet that comes with it and use a dual inlet faucet (seperate controls and outlet ) from Mex 

that's after it comes from  a   holding tanks out back     going thru a big blue 20 sediment then a carbon filter into another holding tank

all going thru a salt/brine automated  softener system 

all well water  30 meters..   torpedo/smurf well  pump.   into tank 1  then thru  the system that has 3 Hitachi pumps

it  thru the system,, into the house and various outlets around the  property  (6) all run off an automated control system with cut off for each level float and pump ....  we can run 2 showers 3 hoses and flush a toilet.  and never drop in pressure

kitchen sink and all bathrooms heated water