Water purifiers are not something you can just buy, the truth is not as simple as you think!

When it comes to drinking water at home, many people will think, as long as the tap water can be assured that the boiler can drink, or simply buy a water purifier installed, anyway, now ads everywhere, said the sky, “multiple filtration of pure drinking water”, the price of high and low have, look dazzling. But seriously, have you ever thought seriously, water purifier in the end is not everyone needs? Those online blowing God's function, is not really suitable for your home water quality? Today, we will use the most localized words, the matter of breaking open and crumpling to tell a story, so that you have a scale in mind, do not be fooled into casually spending money.

First of all, a real story around. Once a friend moved to a new home, he thought of the most important health, so specifically picked a price tag of several thousand dollars, said to be able to “remove 99% of impurities, retain minerals,” the luxury type of water purifier. Installer came after a simple debugging, he was excited to pick up a cup to taste, the results of the taste is a little strange, not as good as the previous boiled tap water. He later found that his home tap water itself is the municipal secondary pressurized supply, the building has long been equipped with softening equipment, local tap water hardness is not high, with such a high level of complexity and expensive water purifiers in fact, completely unnecessary, not only a waste of money, and cartridges are also particularly difficult to match, often out of stock. This lesson so that he remembered, but also let me realize, in fact, we know too little about the water purifier, always think that the more expensive the better, in fact, it is not the case at all.

For most ordinary families, before deciding to buy which kind of water purifier must be clear about the actual needs of their own homes, in the end, want to improve the taste, remove odors or worry about harmful substances in the water over the standard? If only to psychological comfort or follow the trend, it is really easy to fall into the marketing trap. And between different cities and even neighborhoods, tap water quality varies greatly, some places old pipe network, scale and sediment is more, this time a simple pre-filtration may be able to handle; and if you live on the coast or in the south of some areas, the tap water itself is already very clean, and then add RO reverse osmosis this extreme filtration instead of microelements may be over-filtered out all drink tasteless and tasteless, may not be better for your health. So a sentence to summarize, not everyone must be installed expensive multi-stage filtration machine, not to blindly superstitious about some kind of “black science and technology” function.

Mainstream water purification products on the market now is not too much, roughly divided into three categories - activated carbon cartridge (mainly adsorption of odors and some impurities), ultrafiltration membrane (retain bacteria, suspended particles), RO reverse osmosis (can completely isolate the vast majority of dissolved solids and heavy metals). Each program has obvious advantages and disadvantages, such as activated carbon is cheap, but can not solve the problem of bacteria; ultrafiltration membrane throughput is large, does not consume electricity, but can not remove dissolved salts; RO although the strongest effect but out of the wastewater usually the highest maintenance costs. If you usually like to make tea and rice, sensitive to taste, you can choose to bring a composite cartridge or after the mineral stick kind of model, and for infants and young children or the elderly used as a drinking water, should pay more attention to sterilization and disinfection capacity and long-term stability. Some brands advertise “one year without core change”, sounds attractive, but the actual work half a year after the effect has long been greatly reduced, this must not be ignored!

[Product type and purchase skills] Do not just stare at the selection of the more layers of the better, do not think that the imported brands must lead the domestic goods. The key is still to look at the official test report, and whether the after-sales service is convenient and reliable. Some of the second and third line brands on the surface of the price is low, but the problem can not find maintenance, than to spend a high price to buy intentionally add to the blockage is worse. In addition, the regular replacement cost of the cartridge is also one of the invisible expenditure, some high-end models of a single cartridge can easily be two or three hundred dollars, a year down than the machine itself is also expensive, so when you buy, be sure to find out in advance of these follow-up costs.

In fact, there is a problem that is often overlooked, is the so-called “intelligent detection”. Now many new products under the banner of intelligent monitoring TDS value (total dissolved solids), so that users feel in control of their own health at any time, but in fact the TDS value does not fully represent the safety or not, sometimes natural spring water TDS is high but still very safe, and after reverse osmosis treatment of pure distilled water, although the TDS is very low, but the loss of many nutrients needed by the human body. Therefore, we see the dashboard display digital changes should not be nervous, and do not because the digital decline in the magnitude of the stunning and blind pursuit of the ultimate “zero impurity”!

[Misconceptions Reminder] What really matters is whether the key indicators such as heavy metals, bacteria, E. coli and other key indicators in the report issued by the formal testing organization are up to standard, rather than chasing those gimmicky data games. In addition, the Internet era information explosion, all kinds of people share a variety of experiences, there is no lack of people advocating DIY transformation or cross-border nautical method to save money, in fact, no professional knowledge is very easy to operate errors lead to leakage of seals or even reflux contamination, not only a waste of time but also the existence of potential safety hazards. In this regard, it is recommended to prioritize the purchase of formal channels, there is a perfect after-sales protection brand products more peace of mind.

In the final analysis, household drinking safety is inseparable from scientific and rational decision-making. The real reliable practice should be the first to check the local authority to publish the annual water supply safety test data, if you find that a certain indicator of long-term high and then according to their own budget and use of targeted selection of products. If only a short period of time occasionally feel the odor is obvious, you can use the economic front or activated carbon simple device transition processing, if the health requirements are very high, such as mothers-to-be, children and the elderly living environment, and then consider configuring an upgraded version of the RO system is not too late. After all, anything has the best applicable scenarios, there is no one-size-fits-all option, everyone should be flexible according to the actual situation to adjust the program is considered a wise investment. And the daily use of the process must be borne in mind in a timely manner to replace consumables, regular cleaning and maintenance, otherwise even if the advanced features once negligent management, will also become a new source of pollution, so it is not counterproductive?

[Daily maintenance and use of recommendations] In addition to the timely replacement of cartridges, but also pay attention to the observation of the interface pipeline leakage phenomenon, if encountered abnormal sound or flow rate slowed down significantly, to contact the after-sales inspection to investigate the cause. It is also best to invite professionals to regularly test the overall system operating conditions, so as to ensure that the family drinking health is foolproof.

Finally, I would like to talk about my own personal experience. I used to be a variety of evaluation video brush non-stop, after watching a hot head almost chopped hand to buy a flagship whole-house drinking machine. But calm down and carefully study found that my city's water supply safety factor is high, the neighborhood property owners often check and maintain the trunk pipeline, there is no need to invest in so exaggerated equipment in one step. At present, I chose a simple two-stage ceramic + carbon rod combination, quarterly do-it-yourself dismantling and flushing, very labor-saving and economical and environmentally friendly. Facts have proved that as long as the right method, the right attitude, no matter what the budget can have a clean, sweet and safe drinking experience.

So once again, seemingly insignificant details precisely determine the quality of happy life, rather than blindly follow the trend of money, not as down-to-earth search for the most suitable solution for themselves, so as to guard the health of their families, but also to avoid falling into the trap of consumerism!

I hope that today's article can help you clear the fog, if you are torn in the end whether to install the machine or how to choose, then ask yourself what you really need to solve the problem, and then combined with the actual situation of rational decision-making, I believe that your choice will not be wrong.

If you still have questions, welcome to leave a message to discuss, we exchange ideas together, every drop of health for the family to put a good gate!