As everyone knows softened water makes really bad tasteing coffee. Will a
Pur , Brita or similar faucet mounted water filter or the pitcher make a
difference or should I stick to bottled water for coffee? Anyone tried this?
Thanks for any help...

benick wrote:

As everyone knows softened water makes really bad tasteing coffee. Will a
Pur , Brita or similar faucet mounted water filter or the pitcher make a
difference or should I stick to bottled water for coffee? Anyone tried this?
Thanks for any help...

Get one of the $150 or so under sink RO filter units and feed it with
water from before the softener so you don't waste filter life removing
softener salts.

"Pete C." wrote in message
ter.com...

benick wrote:

As everyone knows softened water makes really bad tasteing coffee. Will a
Pur , Brita or similar faucet mounted water filter or the pitcher make a
difference or should I stick to bottled water for coffee? Anyone tried
this?
Thanks for any help...

Get one of the $150 or so under sink RO filter units and feed it with
water from before the softener so you don't waste filter life removing
softener salts.

Using the water BEFORE the filter/softener is not an option. VERY rusty and
lots sediments. Removing the salt won't be a waste of a filter if it will
save me from buying 5 gallons of bottled water a week for coffee and having
to return said gallon containers to the redemtion center ....LOL. So I
assume by your post that Pur filters WILL remove the salt? If so I'm getting
one the next trip into town....

benick wrote:

"Pete C." wrote in message
ter.com...

benick wrote:

As everyone knows softened water makes really bad tasteing coffee. Will a
Pur , Brita or similar faucet mounted water filter or the pitcher make a
difference or should I stick to bottled water for coffee? Anyone tried
this?
Thanks for any help...

Get one of the $150 or so under sink RO filter units and feed it with
water from before the softener so you don't waste filter life removing
softener salts.

Using the water BEFORE the filter/softener is not an option. VERY rusty and
lots sediments. Removing the salt won't be a waste of a filter if it will
save me from buying 5 gallons of bottled water a week for coffee and having
to return said gallon containers to the redemtion center ....LOL. So I
assume by your post that Pur filters WILL remove the salt? If so I'm getting
one the next trip into town....

Add an additional $20 5 micron sediment filter before the RO unit and
feed if pre-softener. The $2 (buy them by the case at a plumbing supply
store) sediment filters will take care of rust and sediment and still be
a lot cheaper than wasting RO filter life.

I have no idea what the Pur filters will remove. As far as I know they
are simple particulate and charcoal filters, far below the filtering
capacity of an RO filter.

On Aug 10, 8:59 pm, "Pete C." wrote:
benick wrote:

As everyone knows softened water makes really bad tasteing coffee. Will a
Pur , Brita or similar faucet mounted water filter or the pitcher make a
difference or should I stick to bottled water for coffee? Anyone tried this?
Thanks for any help...

Get one of the $150 or so under sink RO filter units and feed it with
water from before thesoftenerso you don't waste filter life removingsoftenersalts.

IMO a Brita or similar 'filter' is a toy when compared to real
filters.

Millions of Americans don't agree that softened water makes bad
coffee.

All ROs come with prefiltering requirements and should be installed
after a softener. An RO has no problem removing the added sodium or
potassium from a softener. But they do have a problem with hardness,
iron, managnese etc..

Gary Slusser
Quality Water Associates