Old neighborhood tap water safe to drink? Choosing the right water purifier is the key! Detailed guide to avoid the pit is here!

Old neighborhood tap water safe to drink? Choosing the right water purifier is the key! Detailed guide to avoid the pit is here!

Speaking of “old neighborhoods”, many people's first reaction is the environment is mature, easy to live in, downstairs food market, stores all around, the neighborhood is also more humane. However, live a long time, we must have found a headache - the tap water at home always feel not too clean. Have you ever turned on the faucet at home, and the water that comes out is a little yellowish or sometimes smells a little strange? After boiling the kettle under the thick layer of white scale, is not every time to remind you that the water may not be so pure?

In fact, many of the old neighborhoods built years earlier, the underground piping materials and new developments will appear to be a little “backward” compared. A long time, not only easy to rust, but also often have sand impurities mixed in. If it happens to the neighborhood renovation or unexpected pipeline maintenance, the tap water is cloudy to the naked eye. Drinking it not only affects the taste, more people worry about health problems. At this time, a reliable water purifier is particularly important.

So the question is, in the end, what kind of water purifier can be really suitable for these old neighborhoods? There are too many styles on the market, from dozens of dollars of small cartridges to thousands of dollars of large RO reverse osmosis equipment, look at the quite high, but the actual effect is very different. If you choose the wrong, not only spend money to buy a psychological comfort, but also may be used with a bad, jammed or even leakage, when the trouble will only be more.

The first thing to be clear is that there are two outstanding problems in old neighborhoods. One is the pipeline aging brought about by rust, sediment, suspended particles and other physical impurities increase; the other is the disinfection by-products (such as residual chlorine) as well as some of the possible residual heavy metals exceeding the standard. These things can't be blocked by ordinary cartridges alone. So when choosing a water purifier, we have to keep an eye on it to see if it can handle these two major problems. Now the mainstream household water purifier on the market according to the filtration method is divided into three categories:

The first is called “pre-filter”, the volume is generally more pocket-sized, most of them are installed directly in the main pipeline into the house. Its main role is to rust, large particles of sand and these visible dirt stopped, to protect the subsequent water equipment is very helpful, but the bacteria and dissolved pollutants have no way.

The second is the “ultra-filtration machine” or “activated carbon machine”, which is usually installed in the kitchen under the counter, next to the sink. There are activated carbon sticks inside, which can adsorb odors and some harmful gases, while the ultrafiltration membrane can isolate some bacteria and viruses, which is an extra layer of protection for family dietary safety. But because of the large pore size, some like heavy metal ions or pesticide residues will still miss the fish.

The third is the hottest and most controversial “RO reverse osmosis machine”, which is loaded with a very fine layer of internal semi-permeable membrane, can be the vast majority of dissolved impurities (including heavy metals, bacteria, etc.) are retained. Out of the purity and bottled mineral water not much difference. However, this machine usually need to work on electricity, at the same time will produce waste water, and out of the purity is very high, some friends are worried that the water becomes too “soft”, long-term drinking is not good?

Must pay attention to the filtration accuracy, generally speaking, only RO level can completely solve the heavy metals, safety hazards].

Many people ask, in the end, which type of home installed the best? In fact, this answer is not absolute, because everyone's needs and budget are different. But for typical old neighborhoods, due to the complexity of the network conditions, water quality fluctuations, if the economic conditions allow, the choice of RO reverse osmosis + front combination of programs can be basically “one step”. The front is responsible for coarse filtration, the large particles of dirt first blocked, and then RO is responsible for the fine processing, so that every drop of direct drinking after the plant are more at ease. If the budget is limited, you can also consider a high-precision ultrafiltration and activated carbon machine, and then with the boiling use, can also play a good effect, but try not to rely only on cheap and simple small hanging cartridges, which can only improve the taste, and can not guarantee the real health and safety.

About the installation location, in fact, there are some practical tips worth noting, for example, if the home has plenty of space, give priority to under-the-counter hidden installation, which is both beautiful and good care. And don't forget to regularly check the replacement of consumables, let's say PP cotton generally 3 ~ 6 months should be changed once, otherwise the clogging is serious, it will affect the efficiency of the whole system. Incidentally, now many brands have launched a smart monitoring function, you can detect the real-time flow of water and consumables life, to the point of automatically remind you to change the core, perfect for busy families.

In addition, the big brand after-sales service is more reliable, if you meet the leakage of the installation and removal of such a troublesome thing, you do not have to blindly figure out the delay. Choose regular brand products, avoid “three no” cottage goods, be careful of poor quality plastic or fake filter element secondary pollution] In addition to the hardware itself, there are many friends often ignore the daily cleaning and maintenance. Sometimes obviously just after the new machine, not long after using the factory feel the taste back to the “previous flavor”, in fact, probably because of the joints or storage tank hygiene is not in place. At this time, remember to contact a professional in time to do a deep cleaning and maintenance, the replacement parts never hesitate, so as to maximize the life of the machine, so that drink every cup is healthy and good taste!

To summarize, as long as in the old neighborhood, a little sensitive to the quality of tap water, it is very worthwhile to seriously put some effort to pick a reliable water purifier. After all, this is the most basic but most easily overlooked daily entrance to the smallest, it is directly related to the health of the whole family. Whether the pursuit of ultimate safety or simply improve the quality of life, please combine the actual needs of careful selection of the corresponding products, not greedy for cheap, do not follow the trend in order not to lose out on stepping on mines. If you have decided to upgrade the family drinking standards, you may wish to check in advance the reputation of the neighbors, take a look at the online evaluation video, to find a suitable solution for their own actual situation, and when in doubt, you can also leave a comment to exchange experience, I believe that through the joint efforts of all of us, we will be able to drink a cup of real peace of mind and comfort of good tap water!

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