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

    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.

    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?

      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.

        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.

          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.

            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).

              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!!

              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.