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Before I was in a position to plumb a filter tap into my kitchen I used a counter-top "Brita" device which consisted of a rectangular box with an outlet tap near the bottom and a filling inlet at the top. The device could cache 2+ liters of filtered water, so when it was necessary to draw some filtered water at once the delivery was as fast as gravity would allow the water to flow through the tap. I still use that filter when I go camping.
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Originally posted by Talk_Coffee View PostNot according to the information I have. Mine is installed horizontally up out of the way and always has been.
hmmm... not according to the instruction sheet it came with... but it was Bombara's instead of Brita... I will double check it again when I get home tonight, but I was in a panic the night before the plumber came as I was trying to find a vertical spot to put the filter
*edit* OK, I must have misread it when I was doing the last minute read up at 11:30pm... it states that "Wall mounts should only be used Vertically"
:facepalm: I did RTFM but I guess I didnt do it properly....
guess I should have open the box first to check before I called the plumber... oh well, lesson learned
by the way... with the By-Pass option... is it higher the % the more filtered the water or less?
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Surely, It will! If you think about it, more than 90% of your espresso is water. You will get a more 'clean' taste to your espresso. Enjoy!Originally posted by okitoki View Post.....Hope it helps with my coffee machine too
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thought I chime in on this... picked up a C150 too from Bombora... very helpful with my queries about how I should deal with WA water (According to someone... it's where coffee machine comes to die
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Looks simple enough, but I ended up getting a plumber in to do the job properly...
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One thing you have to be aware of is the C150 cartridge is pretty tall, and it has to be installed vertically so you may struggle if your kitchen bench is not so tall... If I had known, I properbly would have ordered the C50 instead of the C150, but it did manage to barely squeeze under the sink not using the wall mount...
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I also asked the plumber to install a longer running hose to give me some slack to able to take the whole canister out for when i need to change cartridge... as I found that pulling the cartridge out is a little bit hard, and would be extra difficult if it is installed in an awkward position at the back of my cabinet with no slack...
so far the taste of the water seems sweeter than before... even my GF, who hates drinking tap water, liked it using a blind taste test...
Hope it helps with my coffee machine too
edit: to remove wrong info... sorry
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Inevitable perhaps, but perhaps it's all a matter of time. After four and a half years of consistently using filtered water in my Giotto the mushroom shows a microscopic amount of scale. Most people probably wouldn't notice it unless it was pointed out to them. Compared with some photos I've seen on this site (I'm thinking of you Thundergod) I reckon I can go another couple of decades before scale becomes an issue for me.Originally posted by ThankDog View PostI'm actually not too concerned about scale. I figure that's inevitable and something I can deal with ...
Thanks Bombora and thanks TalkCoffee. Your advice on these issues for me has been invaluable.
BTW My filter for a long time was a from Bombora. It was attached to a rubber hose which I could attach to the bathroom tap. I simply filled a 15 litre container and used that to fill the Giotto as required.
Best wishes, Russell
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Try sponsor Bombora ..
If renting, grab a C150 kit, it can connect in-line to a standard cold water hose feed under your kitchen sink, you will have cold water filtered from the tap
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Ah... I read up on the stuff they add to the water years back and decided I wanted an absolute minimum of that crap entering my body. I've been using RO for close to 20 years. You'd be surprised how bad water smells when what you're used to is pure.
I've been told RO water isn't the best for coffee machines, something about being too pure. But I still had my portable one in use when I got my SB and it worked fine.
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Cool.Originally posted by Journeyman View PostI have an aquaponics system. I let the water sit in an IBC to outgas the chlorine, sometimes for weeks. Doesn't seem to affect the fish and fish are notoriously sensitive to DO. (Dissolved Oxygen) But if you were going to filter the water for your coffee, wouldn't you also use the cleaned water for other ingestion purposes? i.e. the water is not going to be sitting there long enough to worry about.
And you could always just shake the container if it sits 'too long' - the O2 has nowhere to go in a closed container and shaking will call the partial pressure in the water to rise again.
And I used to really hate the taste of tap water. I forced myself to get used to it because I ended up drinking too much coffee and too little water which caused health problems. Now I'm used to it, I figure the expense of filtering water just for drinking isn't really necessary, despite the icky particles.
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I have an aquaponics system. I let the water sit in an IBC to outgas the chlorine, sometimes for weeks. Doesn't seem to affect the fish and fish are notoriously sensitive to DO. (Dissolved Oxygen) But if you were going to filter the water for your coffee, wouldn't you also use the cleaned water for other ingestion purposes? i.e. the water is not going to be sitting there long enough to worry about.
And you could always just shake the container if it sits 'too long' - the O2 has nowhere to go in a closed container and shaking will call the partial pressure in the water to rise again.
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Doesn't sitting water supposedly reduce oxygen or something in the water? I figured I'd just fill the machine's tank as needed from a Brita jug I filled up just before needing it.Originally posted by Journeyman View PostWhat you do is, when needed, fill a 10L container, preferably with a tap on it.
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Originally posted by Talk_Coffee View PostJust check that the holes in the stockings are 5 micron or finer....No fishnets....
Or those grunge types with large holes 'ripped' in them...
Well, you wouldn't do it that way unless you wanted to dedicate a tap to drinking/coffee/cooking water. What you do is, when needed, fill a 10L container, preferably with a tap on it.Originally posted by ThankDog View PostI'll look into the activated charcoal thing but without access to tools, DIY things are a bit out of my league. Plus the idea of using something like that everytime I want to make a coffee is just daunting

I used to have a portable RO filter attached to the laundry sink tap. Now I have an under-sink RO system with a remineraliser that has a tap at the side of the kitchen sink. Surprisingly cheap - cost about $350 and good for a rated 12,000L - if it's anything like the portable one our water is clean enough to get double that. Even at the rated level is about 3c per litre. And RO doesn't remove anything from water, it removes water from everything else, including chlorine, chloramines and fluoride.
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