• Thursday January 20th
  • Whole House Water Filters – Discover How To Choose The Most Effective System To Protect Your Family

  • Let's face it, most of us realize that the quality of our household water is deteriorating. This is the reason why home filtration, especially whole house water filters, are becoming increasingly popular and necessary.

    A whole house water filter protects all the water you use for bathing, cooking, washing and so on. You may think that you only need to filter what you drink, but the truth is you can ingest a lot of toxins from other sources too.

    For example, when you take a shower, you ingest more toxins than if you had drunk over two litres of unfiltered water!

    The reason is that the chlorine in the water is converted into toxic chloroform gas and is easily absorbed through your open pores. It is also a fact that the chlorine levels in your supply are often over that which is permitted in public swimming pools.

    The U.S. EPA recently stated that "Due to chlorine and showering, virtually every home in America has a detectable level of chloroform gas in the air."

    Even when you wash your clothes, a certain amount of toxins will remain on them.

    Quality whole house water filters will remove 99% of the chlorine, lead and all the other main contaminants to leave your water safe and pure. They should use an activated carbon block filter with a 3 stage process for the best results.

    These types can be fitted in a couple of hours by a qualified plumber and the main filter only needs to be changed every 3 to 5 years with average use. Look to pay no more than $1000 for the system as I know many reverse osmosis whole house water filters cost many times this.

    The company I use, Aquasana, even offer to customize your filter to cater for your particular water, making the filter even more effective.

    As you can see, the benefits of the right whole house water filter are immense and can give you the peace of mind that you are doing your level best to protect your family's present and future health, whatever may enter your household water supply in the future.

    Take a moment to visit the Aquasana site and discover like I did, some of the best systems available today.

    To your good health,

    Ray Hamilton 

     Ray Hamilton