Whole House Water Filters in Layman's Terms

There are quite a few whole house water filters available for use today. These vary widely in quality, cost and effectiveness. So which whole house water filter should you choose? That’s what I’m going to help you to decide.

Let’s begin with the highly touted system known as reverse osmosis or RO whole house water filters. These are the most expensive systems on the market with a starting cost of $10,000 per unit. You would think that with a price tag like that they would have to be the best, right? You couldn’t be more wrong in that assumption.

The shortcomings of the RO whole house waters filters far outweigh the advantages to owning one. They are basically nothing more than de-mineralization systems in that they will remove only ‘seeable’ particles from your water. The units do absolutely nothing to rid your water of any of the many chemical and biological contaminants that are present.

RO whole house water filters also waste 5 times more water than they clean an take a large amount of power to run which only takes more money out of your pocket. Add that cost to the professional installation costs of the system, plus the additional price tag for maintenance and frequent filter replacements. A lot of money spent for a system that can’t even complete its primary objective, which is to clean your water.

Next on the list we have our featured $6000 system known as the Wellness whole house water filter. These units block 99% of chlorine, have the ability to remove microscopic entities, and can block lead. They don’t waste water, run on no electricity and have a large capacity. Overall it’s a good machine but not worth $6000. So why does it cost so much?

The people who bring you the Wellness whole house water filters have included in the unit "magical" Japanese stones which will bring healthy benefits to you and your family. Of course they do claim to have a practical purpose for adding the stones, which is that that have antifungal and antibacterial properties. That’s pretty funny, huh?

The next model is the Life Source whole house water filter valued at a mere $4000. This unit leaves a lot to be desired. The unit is capable of removing chlorine from your water, but doesn’t do much else. Let’s move on.

The last two of our top five run for about the same amount of money, so we’ll just group them together at $2800. Neither SKW whole house water filters nor the ECO whole house water filter offer much in the way of service at all. They will remove bacteria, but not as well as some of the other models mentioned, and SKW is not even certified despite the fact that it claims to remove chlorine.

There is my review of the top listed units on the market today. There is another system that costs around $1000 by direct purchase, and will do everything that you need it to. It, and not these overpriced models, is probably one of the best whole house water filters being sold today.