Brita Filters?

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Anyone got one for the fridge, like a jug type?
Moved over to water as my staple goto on doctors advice 2 years ago and been using tap water in fridge in old soda stream bottles.

Time to move up.
 
Used to (and Mrs Nod still does at her studio, rather than use bought in bottled water and dealing with the recycling) but went down the inline filter route for drinking and cooking water. It came from Wickes and the filter element gets changed every 6 months or so. Taint free water from a small spout mounted to the back corner of the kitchen sink. http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Water-Filter-Kit/p/193143
 
Got a kettle with one built in, change it monthly, makes tea taste nicer :)
 
Yes, we use one all the time, tea tastes so much better. Lincolnshire tap water is awful.
 
Mr Bump said:
Anyone got one for the fridge, like a jug type?
Moved over to water as my staple goto on doctors advice 2 years ago and been using tap water in fridge in old soda stream bottles.

Time to move up.
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Yeah i have a brita its a very simple product its just filtered through charcoal. You can now get cheaper unbranded ones and compatible cartridges in budget shops like home or b&m bargains. Its such a simple product you're just as well get a cheaper one i would imagine.
 
I refill water bottles to stack in the fridge as a drink a lot of water.
The Brita makes the foul Kent chalky water drinkable.
 
So glad I get highland water from the tap. Whenever I got to family in London the water tastes so different. Added bonus is very little limescale up here....
 
We used to have Brita which was absolutely fine, however when we did up our kitchen we had an inline filter installed for our Fridge, and another for a tri-flow tap at our kitchen sink.

I don't use the original filters anymore, I use Pozzani now much cheaper and tastes just as good.

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Used to (and Mrs Nod still does at her studio, rather than use bought in bottled water and dealing with the recycling) but went down the inline filter route for drinking and cooking water. It came from Wickes and the filter element gets changed every 6 months or so. Taint free water from a small spout mounted to the back corner of the kitchen sink. http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Water-Filter-Kit/p/193143
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We use one all the time, have done for years.
 
which ones do you vave that go in the fri fridge?
 
We have a Brita filter jug in SA and it makes hard Joburg water reasonably drinkable. The cartridges are expensive though, but they might be cheaper in the UK? Wife has never bothered at her house in SW Scotland, mains water is quite soft and tastes fine.
 
I've got the "under the sink" double filter system from Pozzani (option 1, the scum and limescale add-on, as well as the chlorine/sediment/heavy metals filter) plumbed in, and tee-ed off to feed a drinking water tap and also provide a filtered/descaled water supply to my Coffee Machine... works great, and I find that I actually drink far more water now, purely because it actually doesn't taste awful... (According to a friend who works for the water utilitys we're on a Aquifer fed supply in the surrounding villages , and with all the coal-measures around here, apparently the water needs a fair degree of treatment to be potable...) The limescale filtration certainly works as well - before fitting it, the kettle used to scale up in a matter of months, the coffee machine needed descaling weekly... now, the kettle gets a treatment once a year if that, and the coffee machine, once a month whether it needs it or not...
 
when i was in scotland for two years i drank the tap water and it seemed ok)ish but back in yorkshire i find it not great so i want to try one.
 
We've used a Brita jug filter for years, the water is really hard around here. It's a very simple & effective product. Filters aren't cheap but the cheaper unbranded ones are fine plus quite often you'll find the original ones on special offer.

A month or so ago the little timer on the top of our jug died. We just guessed when the filter needed changing for a while until we found out that Brita offer replacement parts for most of their range free of charge. So, we ordered a new timer and a complete lid assembly. It took a couple of weeks to arrive but the jug looks as good as new. So I would say it's worth spending a bit more on a Brita jug rather than the cheaper alternatives.
 
We use Brita jugs, replacing them about once a year.
Robert Dyas shops have the filters (and Jugs) on special offer occasionally but we usually buy on eBay.
We moved from the softest water area of Godalming a few years to the extremely awful (tap) water of Bognor Regis - and we are still not used to it.
 
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