EricP wrote in message news:

Our water tastes like a solution of chalk and medicine.
We want a volume source of clean water for coffee, tea, cooking,
drinking and the steam iron.

I am sick of that jug thing that you have to fill up all the time and
fancied turning one of those little taps on. )

carbon, or carbon and exchange resin. Carbon gets general muck out,
resin gets minerals out if necessary. Carbon filtering is very cheap.
Trouble with carbon is they soon become bacterial breeding grounds, so
do need regular relpacement.

RO also works, but at a price, unless youve got means to heat the
filters to red heat yourself to reactivate them.


NT