How much is your water bill per month? And how is the quality?
Edited on Sat Jul-12-08 05:39 PM by NNN0LHI
Mine is getting up near a hundred dollars a month for normal usage. That seems like a lot but when the town used to be on a well the water was almost worthless. All you could do with it was bathe and wash clothes with it and it still ruined your clothes even with a water softener recharging every night. We had to carry home all our drinking water and water used to cook with so this is still better for us. Used to us 6-8 bags of water softener salt per month too. That was just to prevent the high calcium in the water from eating the chrome off of our kitchen and bathroom fixtures. Now its only one per month. They installed a water pipeline from the Kankakee river about 5 years ago and now the quality is really good.
One of thr fringe benfits of living near the Great Lakes. Our quality is excellent. I can drink ours right from tap no problem. We're the Saudi Arabia of fresh water.
Even after running the towns well water through a water softener and a charcoal filter there would still be scum (lots of it) on top of my coffee. It truly was undrinkable.
12. A couple of bucks? whatever it cost to run the UV light filter for my
mountain spring water. and the aggro of having to tote some clay up the hill every 3 - 5 years to seal the pick. Good tasting sweetwater low in contaminants.
Normally it's cloroxy but Brita solves that. sometimes it comes out smelling like sewage. On those days the husband unit takes a 5 gallon drink cooler to a friend on a different water source and fills up out of the hose (with their permission of course) - and we run that through the Brita for cooking and drinking.
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