Undersink water filter

LavaLamp

Not really sure where to post this but I thought this was the best place

Has anyone heard of Gulp - they are offering undersink water filters at a great price, a friend has just has her's installed and I am thinking of doing the same.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of them? They claim their filters remove flouride/chlorine & bacteria which is what I want. I guess the only way is to get the water from the filter tested once it's in place.

Any views/thoughts welcome!
Thanks

dor843088

LavaLamp wrote: »

Not really sure where to post this but I thought this was the best place

Has anyone heard of Gulp - they are offering undersink water filters at a great price, a friend has just has her's installed and I am thinking of doing the same.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of them? They claim their filters remove flouride/chlorine & bacteria which is what I want. I guess the only way is to get the water from the filter tested once it's in place.

Any views/thoughts welcome!
Thanks

Fools and their money are easily parted. Tell your friend they got ripped and thank your lucky stars you have not been as foolish .

Ronaldinho

dor843088 wrote: »

Fools and their money are easily parted. Tell your friend they got ripped and thank your lucky stars you have not been as foolish .

Don't take this the wrong way but you seem very sure of yourself. Can you back this up with any facts/experience/knowledge of the product?

BWSMG

To remove fluoride you need a reverse osmosis system which are usually quite expensive but worth every penny

Transform

mine is from simplywater.ie had it for years and they are one of the original water filter companies in ireland so lots of experience

dor843088

Ronaldinho wrote: »

Don't take this the wrong way but you seem very sure of yourself. Can you back this up with any facts/experience/knowledge of the product?

Google water filter scam . Its common sense I would have thought. Are you going to start disinfecting your apple before you eat it aswell ?

Frank Bullitt

dor843088 wrote: »

Google water filter scam . Its common sense I would have thought. Are you going to start disinfecting your apple before you eat it aswell ?

You put a lot of trust into google searching.

JJayoo

Nom nom fluoride

Sangre

dor843088 wrote: »

Google water filter scam . Its common sense I would have thought. Are you going to start disinfecting your apple before you eat it aswell ?

I could also google the benefits of water filters.

Google results are like statistics, they can be used to prove anything.

dor843088

I tqke it none of you will be paying your water charges for this disgusting filth that comes out of your tap . Or never drink a drop of water that hasnt been gulp filtered in a restaurant ot cafe etc.

Blacktie.

dor843088 wrote: »

I tqke it none of you will be paying your water charges for this disgusting filth that comes out of your tap . Or never drink a drop of water that hasnt been gulp filtered in a restaurant ot cafe etc.

Just because people prefer filtered water it doesn't mean they'll completely ignore the regular tap water. You have a serious all or nothing attitude going by some of your previous posts here.

dor843088

Blacktie. wrote: »

Just because people prefer filtered water it doesn't mean they'll completely ignore the regular tap water. You have a serious all or nothing attitude going by some of your previous posts here.

Im allowed to have the opinion that filtering perfectly drinkable water to make it even more drinkable is a scam . And if your going to the trouble of paying to have all these nasties removed from the water in your home and then go and drink them when your out well then that truly is a waste of money.

Blacktie.

dor843088 wrote: »

Im allowed to have the opinion that filtering perfectly drinkable water to make it even more drinkable is a scam . And if your going to the trouble of paying to have all these nasties removed from the water in your home and then go and drink them when your out well then that truly is a waste of money.

You're allowed to have whatever opinion you want. Just stop trying to force it on other people who have different opinions and then insulting them when they say they don't agree with you.

dor843088

Blacktie. wrote: »

You're allowed to have whatever opinion you want. Just stop trying to force it on other people who have different opinions and then insulting them when they say they don't agree with you.

I didnt insult anyone .

JJayoo

A lot of water supplies are contaminated. Lived in Galway for a bit and on two occasions we couldn't drink the water for several months because of cryptosporidium. Personally I would like to have a fluoride free water source as we the republic of Ireland are the only part of Europe which still adds Fluoride to all it's drinking water.

Fluoride is only beneficial to your teeth when it is in direct physical contact with them, once you swallow the water/tea/coffee/etc the fluoride enters the bloodstream and offers zero benefit to teeth.

Furthermore there have been zero studies to access the impact(if any) that Fluoride plays in the function of the Pineal gland. In Luke 2001 it was shown for the first time that Fluoride builds up in the Pineal Gland. This Gland is situated outside the Blood Brain Barrier and so Fluoride is allowed enter.

Since then there has never been any studies to test if this build up impacts the function. Maybe it does maybe it doesn't but I think it's very odd that they wouldn't investigate as the brain is kinda important.

In conclusion **** you fluoride.

Transform

my water just tastes better than the sh1t tap water so thats good enough for me

juke

Few years ago a flatmate was drinking a glass of tap water and noticed something swimming in it - looked like a miniature shrimp - bit bigger than a grain if sugar.

I called the council (DCC) and was told that there probably was something in the water as there were road-works locally, "and sure, don't worry it's probably harmless".

We kept it as a pet for over a week :eek:

If my filter only keeps live bodies out, that suits me just fine. Ours is from simplywater.ie aswell, replacement filters are easy to get online.

JJayoo

juke wrote: »

We kept it as a pet for over a week :eek:

Where is it now?

juke

JJayoo wrote: »

Where is it now?

:pac:

We kept it initially as the council were supposed to come out and collect it for analysis, but they never arrived. After about a week, it stopped swimming....we just didn't know what to feed it

LavaLamp

Thanks everyone! Still not really any the wiser as to whether their filters really do get rid of flouride (which is my main concern tbh). Will look into a reverse osmosis filter though - sure it has to work out cheaper than getting through dozens of litres of bottled water every week!

amazingemmet

LavaLamp wrote: »

Thanks everyone! Still not really any the wiser as to whether their filters really do get rid of fluoride (which is my main concern tbh). Will look into a reverse osmosis filter though - sure it has to work out cheaper than getting through dozens of litres of bottled water every week!

Here's a little home chemistry which will remove fluroide completely from water. If we can get something to bond to the fluoride in the water then we can precipitate it out of the water and then it won't be absorbed. Calcium fluoride is undigestable and just gets excreted from the body.

So to convert the fluoride we need to add Calcium acetate which can be made from apple cider vinegar and eggshells, just grind up some egg shells and cover with apple cider vinegar leave for a couple of days then strain/filter out the undissolved shell, you can use normal vinegar but apple cider tastes nicer. Then adding about 5ml to 1 litre of water and mixing will remove all the fluoride

Alf Veedersane

amazingemmet wrote: »

Here's a little home chemistry which will remove fluroide completely from water. If we can get something to bond to the fluoride in the water then we can precipitate it out of the water and then it won't be absorbed. Calcium fluoride is undigestable and just gets excreted from the body.

So to convert the fluoride we need to add Calcium acetate which can be made from apple cider vinegar and eggshells, just grind up some egg shells and cover with apple cider vinegar leave for a couple of days then strain/filter out the undissolved shell, you can use normal vinegar but apple cider tastes nicer. Then adding about 5ml to 1 litre of water and mixing will remove all the fluoride

Wanna cook?

rubadub

LavaLamp wrote: »

Will look into a reverse osmosis filter though - sure it has to work out cheaper than getting through dozens of litres of bottled water every week!

Could cost more when water charges come in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis#Disadvantages

Disadvantages[edit source | editbeta]

Household reverse osmosis units use a lot of water because they have low back pressure. As a result, they recover only 5 to 15 percent of the water entering the system. The remainder is discharged as waste water. Because waste water carries with it the rejected contaminants, methods to recover this water are not practical for household systems. Wastewater is typically connected to the house drains and will add to the load on the household septic system. An RO unit delivering 5 gallons of treated water per day may discharge anywhere between 20 and 90 gallons of waste water per day

Not sure if they are all like that.

Stevo11

bought this in 2008, huge difference between it and the tap :
http://www.aquasafe.de/Reverse-Osmosis-Systems/Undercounter-Systems/AS5000-5-Stage-Reverse-Osmosis-Unit::1035.html

TheMasterPrawn

Yea, has anyone here used this product, I was contacted about a free trial, reluctant to have anything "fitted" , seems like a good idea on paper, but site is terrible. Thoughts ?

Jeyjey

I use under sink water filters and completely satisfied with it