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KBSA Consumer Guide
Our FREE guide contains practical advice for consumers who are considering buying a new kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or home office.
Water filters
It used to be quite cool to tell people that you only drank bottled water – ‘we don’t drink tap water, we prefer mineral water’ – but whilst it may have been cool, it certainly didn’t keep you cool, humping home huge bottles of water from the supermarket and taking up much of your fridge space, week in week out! Neither is it very economical.
Of course the market for bottled water is still massive, but you might be interested, even surprised to know that one of the largest growing sectors in water consumption at home is in the installation of water filter systems, that provide virtually unlimited quantities of pure water, straight from the mains, through a dedicated tap that provides water, pure and simple.
And vitally, at a fraction of the cost of the bottled stuff!
Very few people buying a new kitchen do so today without the offer of a water filter system as part of the deal. Water filters are taking the UK by storm as the man and woman in the street discover that they can have the luxury of pure, clean tasting water in their kitchens for far less than the cost of a pint of milk a day! The water filter systems knock the costs associated with bottled water for six. Especially when you have virtually unlimited quantities of the stuff, pouring from a tap in your kitchen!
You can have it chilled from the tap as well and choose either a dedicated tap or a three way tap that provides your normal hot and cold water and a supply of chilled, filtered water, all from the same tap over your sink in the kitchen. Things are really looking up!
So whilst it won’t exactly be farewell to bottled water or to those ‘fiddly’ filter jugs, the new water filter systems are taking off in a big way and will, we expect, soon be as popular in the UK as they are in the USA and on the continent.
The way they work is very simple. The water filter system is attached to the mains water inlet pipe, close to the rising main and a supply of that water makes its way through the ceramic filter that is attached inside the cupboard under the sink, before making its way through a dedicated tap usually situated by or close to the sink. These water filter systems remove upwards of 95% of impurities and leave you with pleasant tasting, clear water with no nasty smells or cloudy deposits. Whilst most people actually accept gratefully that the tap water in the UK is as safe as a water supply anywhere in the world, filtered water quite simply looks, tastes and smells better! It’s time you found out more!
