Buy water purifier must calculate these 4 “late bill”!

Have you ever had this impulse to spend? Thinking of home tap water taste is not good, health, but also have to drink some pure! So bite the bullet, picked a big brand online home water purifier, high sales, value online, reviews are also good. Installed on the day really happy, a mouthful of pure water down, always feel that they live than the neighbors are exquisite.
Unfortunately, the good times do not last long, with more than a year, I realized that I fell into the water purifier “invisible traps” - originally a few hundred dollars of small machines, how to use the more expensive? Obviously buy when said “save money and health”, now I really want to go back to the beginning, the impulse to spend the hand chopped off! Below to talk to you about these four let me bowel regret blue late cost pit, if you are thinking of getting a water purifier, be sure to read before making a decision!


1. Filter replacement frequency - more diligent than gas?
When I first bought it, I thought it was enough to change the cartridge once a year, after all, the business page is written vaguely, “service life of up to 12 months”. As a result, when I carefully read the manual, I realized that this is the ideal state of the data - in real life, one to two families may be able to hold out for a year, but if the family has a large number of people, drinking frequently, three or five months on the alarm prompted to change the cartridge. And the price difference between different brands of cartridges is huge, some high-end models, a cartridge top half a new machine. One time I spent more than 400 dollars in customer service reminded only to change a main filter, not counting the front, after those small parts. This calculation, every year just the money of the filter can buy a new entry-level machine!

Warm tips: Before shopping, be sure to check out your target machine each filter element of the approximate life and unit price, do not just focus on the price of the host, see clearly after-sales maintenance fees is the king!

2. Installation and piping remodeling fees - master door-to-door is not a free lunch!

Some brands advertise free door-to-door installation, but in fact this “free” is only a basic project. If your kitchen is not reserved interface, or cabinet space is limited, the need for additional drilling, extend the pipeline, the master will directly reported dozens or even hundreds of dollars in material costs. Especially in old houses or duplexes, the installation difficulty increases, the cost goes up. There are some imported brands simply can not find the official after-sales, can only ask the third-party master to install, you know, these costs rely on their own price cutting. A friend touted his then in order to hide the pipeline, spend 300 dollars more, please install hidden alignment, said good money into the “harvest”.

Friendly advice: take pictures in advance to consult customer service, describe your kitchen situation clearly, so that the other side to estimate the true cost of installation, and then decide whether to start.

3. After-sales repair and maintenance costs - not bad to pay so simple 
Do not think that only the machine is broken only need to pay the maintenance fee, in fact, many high-end water purifier recommended cycle to do in-depth maintenance, such as professional personnel at home to dismantle and wash, and replace wearing parts. A few years down the road, if you do not regularly maintain, it is easy to flow low, water quality deterioration, minor problems. Repair once less than a few dozen, more than a few hundred dollars, but also delayed to affect the daily use. Sometimes encounter small problems (such as water leakage or alarm), non-original parts can not be used casually, otherwise the manufacturer also does not give warranty. In this case, you can only admit it, and then obediently shell out money to buy the designated supporting products. Compare the cell phone film, which is often hundreds of thousands of big pieces ah!
Question: How often do you need to call someone to maintain your water purifier? Share your experience in the comments section.


4. Disposal of discarded cartridges & environmental protection expenditure - it takes effort to throw away garbage 
I never thought about how to dispose of discarded cartridges before, and I thought it would be fine to just throw them into the garbage can. Later, I found that many areas categorize it as environmental waste, which requires special placement and even payment of recycling fees. Some environmentally conscious neighborhoods also require the payment of a certain disposal fee, otherwise the property owners will not be allowed to put. And used cartridges residual impurities and harmful substances, environmental pollution can not be ignored. I once threw directly into the trash can downstairs, was reminded by the neighbors to pick up, only to find a formal recycling channels. Not only trouble, sometimes also have to ride a little freight ...... 
call on everyone to pay attention to environmental protection, do not arbitrarily discard waste consumables, for the Earth to reduce the burden!

Speaking so much, does not it feel like you instantly mature a lot? In fact, I am not against everyone to buy a water purifier, on the contrary, in today's complex environment, tap water impurities on the high side of the background, a reliable, guaranteed equipment can indeed improve the quality of life. But as a “veteran” sincere reminder: "Don't just greedy cheap, don't just listen to the ads, to all the accounts are clear! Otherwise, after a long time to realize that the real burning money is these seemingly insignificant hidden costs.

If you have been in the pit, may as well take the time to sort out the actual expenses of their own home, the necessary maintenance listed in the schedule, the annual disk of the total expenditure; if you have not yet bought, the patience of the goods compared to the three families, the long-term cost of each item to ask for clarification, and then again and again before placing an order to consider.

[Interactive topic] What little pitfalls have you encountered regarding the invisible costs of appliances? Welcome to leave a comment to spit out, so that more people to avoid the mine!