[Edward[_7_]]

We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

Thanks

Edward

[JimK[_2_]]

On 4 May, 13:09, Edward wrote:
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

Thanks

Edward

depends what sort of filter it is (i.e. what it's supposed to be
filtering)

if just a sediment filter - it wouldn't bother me if it weren't
changed too often - as it will filter out more the more bunged up it
gets..

if "activated charcoal" filter or similar (for taste purposes removing
chlorine for e.g) then it may start tasting less good the longer the
filter is in place (as the filter is "used up")

Cheers
JimK

[Andrew Gabriel]

In article ,
Edward writes:
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

You need to switch it off or cap it off if it's not being maintained
anymore, so it can't be used. The bactericide (normally silver for
drinking water) has a limited life. The filter slowly builds up
materials to support bacteria growth during use, and relies on the
bactericide to keep it safe.

The person responsible for changing the cartridge has been given a
H&S related responsibility for which he isn't competent, which is
a management failure.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

It doesn't, as I can't quickly find what the filter claims to do,
although it probably wouldn't make any difference if I could.

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[Rod]

On 04/05/2010 14:03, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In ,
writes:
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

You need to switch it off or cap it off if it's not being maintained
anymore, so it can't be used. The bactericide (normally silver for
drinking water) has a limited life. The filter slowly builds up
materials to support bacteria growth during use, and relies on the
bactericide to keep it safe.

The person responsible for changing the cartridge has been given a
H&S related responsibility for which he isn't competent, which is
a management failure.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

It doesn't, as I can't quickly find what the filter claims to do,
although it probably wouldn't make any difference if I could.

Agreed.

I have also seen the suggestion that once 'full', the filter can release
some of what it has filtered out periodically. No idea of the truth of
this...

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Rod

[Toby]

"Edward" wrote in message
...
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

Thanks

Edward

They are only £6.75 from the first place I looked FFS!
http://www.qvsdirect.com/Bayhall-Fil...-pr-20251.html

That is about the price of just one 19L bottle of water for a cooler!

As Andrew said, I would not use it, plus send a formal email to his manager,
explaining the situation, and the small cost of the new filters.

I think the whole unit needs to be cleaned out every so often too, if it is
also a cooler that has a storage tank inside.

We have water coolers in our ofices with a bottle on the top, and they are
fully sanitised every three months, but these are coolers that store water,
if yours is just a filter tap, not a cooler, then I don't think you need to
do this.

There are water test kits you can get for fish tanks that test the nitrate
level - might be worth testing the water from the old filter with that, and
then do the same with water that has not been "filtered" (but make sure you
test a mains water supply (at the same site), not water from a tank!)

Toby...

[Colin Wilson[_2_]]

We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow.

The woman who was supposed to get air conditioning maintained but
didn't bother because it still worked got prosecuted for causing
seven deaths by legionaires disease a while ago...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/5061752.stm

[John Whitworth[_3_]]

"Edward" wrote in message
...
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

Thanks

Edward

In addition to this, what's the score with those screw-on types that sit
under the kitchen sinks, which look a bit like a car's oil filter? I stopped
changing ours ages ago. I could never really be sure that it was actually
doing anything - when I first replaced it, it didn't seem very 'wet'
anyway - and I figured that as it protects everything apart from the kitchen
sink (and washing machine for that), that if it was contaminating anything,
it would only be the bathroom, boiler and toilet.

JW

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Colin Wilson
saying something like:

We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow.

The woman who was supposed to get air conditioning maintained but
didn't bother because it still worked got prosecuted for causing
seven deaths by legionaires disease a while ago...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/5061752.stm

Found not guilty of manslaughter, though.
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/D...220005cp.shtml
Quite rightly, imo.

[Andy Dingley]

On 4 May, 14:51, "Toby" wrote:

There are water test kits you can get for fish tanks that test the nitrate
level - might be worth testing the water from the old filter with that,

Only if you have goldfish crapping in the pipes.

(Or you're in East Anglia)


I've worked in many offices with plumbed filters. Don't think I've
ever seen one changed

[[email protected]]

On Wednesday, 5 May 2010 11:59:50 UTC+1, John Whitworth wrote:
"Edward" wrote in message
...
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

Thanks

Edward

In addition to this, what's the score with those screw-on types that sit
under the kitchen sinks, which look a bit like a car's oil filter? I stopped
changing ours ages ago. I could never really be sure that it was actually
doing anything - when I first replaced it, it didn't seem very 'wet'
anyway - and I figured that as it protects everything apart from the kitchen
sink (and washing machine for that), that if it was contaminating anything,
it would only be the bathroom, boiler and toilet.

JW

Sounds like your changing the sink's trap,which is there to stop smell of drain water rising out of the plug. You don't change these "car oil filters" you neep. they're a permanent feature of all sinks and you're throwing these out for no reason other than the;re dirty looking?

[Tim+[_5_]]

wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 May 2010 11:59:50 UTC+1, John Whitworth wrote:
"Edward" wrote in message
...
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

Thanks

Edward

In addition to this, what's the score with those screw-on types that sit
under the kitchen sinks, which look a bit like a car's oil filter? I stopped
changing ours ages ago. I could never really be sure that it was actually
doing anything - when I first replaced it, it didn't seem very 'wet'
anyway - and I figured that as it protects everything apart from the kitchen
sink (and washing machine for that), that if it was contaminating anything,
it would only be the bathroom, boiler and toilet.

JW

Sounds like your changing the sink's trap,which is there to stop smell of
drain water rising out of the plug. You don't change these "car oil filters" you neep.

Ho ho. "Neep". The irony...

Tim


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[FMurtz]

Tim+ wrote:
wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 May 2010 11:59:50 UTC+1, John Whitworth wrote:
"Edward" wrote in message
...
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

Thanks

Edward

In addition to this, what's the score with those screw-on types that sit
under the kitchen sinks, which look a bit like a car's oil filter? I stopped
changing ours ages ago. I could never really be sure that it was actually
doing anything - when I first replaced it, it didn't seem very 'wet'
anyway - and I figured that as it protects everything apart from the kitchen
sink (and washing machine for that), that if it was contaminating anything,
it would only be the bathroom, boiler and toilet.

JW

Sounds like your changing the sink's trap,which is there to stop smell of
drain water rising out of the plug. You don't change these "car oil filters" you neep.

He is talking about a water filter that is common under sinks not a trap
you NEEP, whatever that is, these filters have a use life and after that
they can breed bugs and should be changed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=unde...hTIkrN Sc1ZM:

https://tinyurl.com/y9kn5enh

Ho ho. "Neep". The irony...

Tim

[Brian Gaff]

Where did this 2010 post suddenly spring from?
Brian

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On Wednesday, 5 May 2010 11:59:50 UTC+1, John Whitworth wrote:
"Edward" wrote in message
...
We have a plumbed-in water filter at work, but the person responsible
for changing the cartridge says he's stopped bothering because the
water continues to flow. He argues that, if the filter were failing
to work properly, the flow would diminish or cease. For my part I
think the water has stopped tasting very nice.

It's a Bayhall Filtamate if that helps.

Thanks

Edward

In addition to this, what's the score with those screw-on types that sit
under the kitchen sinks, which look a bit like a car's oil filter? I
stopped
changing ours ages ago. I could never really be sure that it was actually
doing anything - when I first replaced it, it didn't seem very 'wet'
anyway - and I figured that as it protects everything apart from the
kitchen
sink (and washing machine for that), that if it was contaminating
anything,
it would only be the bathroom, boiler and toilet.

JW

Sounds like your changing the sink's trap,which is there to stop smell of
drain water rising out of the plug. You don't change these "car oil filters"
you neep. they're a permanent feature of all sinks and you're throwing these
out for no reason other than the;re dirty looking?

[Adrian Caspersz]

On 04/09/17 08:48, Brian Gaff wrote:
Where did this 2010 post suddenly spring from?
Brian


Gargle ...

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