Water conundrum

Cro55y

I have just taken delivery of an Elizabeth , and was I guess expecting delivery of a Skuma device to address water quality. There has been movement in the Skuma delivery to potentially November. I say potentially as there are stages and knowing my luck it will be the last( just to point out I am not having a go at them !) I would really like to get the Liz up and running would Lockhills be ok for a couple of months? Any other suggestions welcomed

MediumRoastSteam

Cro55y - You should be fine using Lockhills for a few months - but bear in mind it will scale. Not much, but it will.

The issue you have is what if the November deadline is not met?

Inspector

You can get zero jug for £20 then mix it with tap water to use in coffee machine. Dont know how hard your tap water is but you should be able to get over 100 litres out of one filter until November. I know its just an extra plastic for the environment but so does bottles.

Just an idea.

dutchy101

I’m using a Zero jug with my Minima (purchased as a stop-gap whilst I waited for the Skuma). I live in London with very hard water - I’m getting about 35 litres of zero water per filter from the Zero jug for the Minima.

CoyoteOldMan

Same as dutchy101 in terms of Zero jug filter duration/capacity, which is about 30p/litre. A bit less plastic than bottled water, but by and large same cost.

dutchy101

I’ve started putting Britta filtered water into the Zero jug rather than straight out of the tap to see if it gets me any more out of the filters.

CoyoteOldMan

dutchy101 In theory yes, in as much as the ionic capture resin in the Zero filter is ‘good’ for ~18 grams of captured ions, according to ZeroWater (I guess they used some average expected molecular weight for the dissolved ions, or maybe everything is in CaCO₃ equivalents?), and if some ions are captured somewhere else the resin will last longer.

Whether a Brita filter actually strips much out in terms of ions (rather than dissolved gases like chlorine, or heavy metals like lead) remains to be seen… my “normal” drinking water filter (ceramic + charcoal) doesn’t seem to do much in that respect, although it’s very effective at eliminating bad smell and taste (mainly from chlorine).

dutchy101

Yeah, beginning to think it’s a futile exercise.

@Cro55y I’ve just had a look on the ZeroWater website and they’re doing 20% discount on all jugs until midnight on Friday:

https://zerowater.co.uk/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=899140249&utm_content=46702704433&utm_term=zerowater&gclid=CjwKCAjw2rmWBhB4EiwAiJ0mtRCrHTgRylbr2PgvhsFdkF1VCRusGhYPuO1Q-XGh6G4zjcj1BdugIRoCxGYQAvD_BwE

Cro55y

Thanks all for your replies, The Zero water jug wasn’t on my radar but is now !! and thanks Dutchy for the heads up on the discount👍. I too am in London so the water is hard!!

audiomacgyver

I use high quality distilled water and packets from third wave water. https://thirdwavewater.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4tD1tvD5-AIVgSitBh0gNwWvEAAYASAAEgL_lPD_BwE

That might be something else worth looking into if you needed to get up and running quickly.

MediumRoastSteam

audiomacgyver I use high quality distilled water and packets from third wave water

What’s “high quality”? Do you buy it in a bottle, or do you distil yourself?

audiomacgyver

MediumRoastSteam

I bring my jugs to be refilled at a commercial place where we also get our drinking water.

http://www.waterspring.com/purification.htm if I remember correctly the distilled water uses the output of the drinking filtered RO water as the input to the distillation process. The owner was saying that this process yielded higher quality distilled water than typical grocery store bottled distilled water. But that was a discussion a few years ago, so I’m recalling from memory.