Under Sink RO System

[spierceisu]

With the increase in Nitrates my wife and I are considering getting an undersink RO system for drinking water. Does anyone have experience with these? I was looking at an ISpring one. They offer one that has an alkiline remineralization filter. Does this affect the taste of the water?

 

[ianoconnor]

Our house had one already installed when we moved in (Culligan). I've kept up with filter replacements myself. Ours does not have the remineralization thing.

 

[Triggermv]

#1 cancer state is Iowa. Plus, my wife (kids 50/50 chance) has the BRCA gene (raises cancer rates substantially on everything), so I had the exact same thoughts. As a result, I got a home one that is installed in our basement and runs both to the tap in our fridge as well as to one at the sink. It was installed last week. Love it so far. We did not to remineralization. From what I read through AI, I'm not sure it is necessary.

 

[Cyclones01]

We may end up installing one at some point. We're currently having our water delivered through Crystal Clear Water. The water is great, and it's nice to know my family is not drinking cancer water, but it's not cheap.

 

[Clonedogg]

With the increase in Nitrates my wife and I are considering getting an undersink RO system for drinking water. Does anyone have experience with these? I was looking at an ISpring one. They offer one that has an alkiline remineralization filter. Does this affect the taste of the water?

ISpring is nice, I went with a geekpure system, we like it. I have ordered a alkaline remineralizing filter, but haven't installed yet, not much help, sorry. In my research it will change the taste some.

 

[BCClone]

#1 cancer state in Iowa. Plus, my wife (kids 50/50 chance) has the BRCA gene (raises cancer rates substantially on everything), so I had the exact same thoughts. As a result, I got a home one that is installed in our basement and runs both to the tap in our fridge as well as to one at the sink. It was installed last week. Love it so far. We did not to remineralization. From what I read through AI, I'm not sure it is necessary.

Are there other states in Iowa I’m not aware of?

 

[psycln11]

We just installed a Waterdrop under sink RO last week for our kitchen sink. We did not but the re-mineralization filter but it looks like it's an easy add-on if we want to later.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B098...d_r=ee7584d9-27c2-4afa-add6-59698ab85049&th=1

 

[StratCY]

We got an ISpring RCC7AK off of amazon almost exactly a year ago. Happy with it so far, installation was relatively easy. It does take up some space under our sink, but worth it for peace of mind in this cancer ridden state.

 

[Cloned4Life]

With the increase in Nitrates my wife and I are considering getting an undersink RO system for drinking water. Does anyone have experience with these? I was looking at an ISpring one. They offer one that has an alkiline remineralization filter. Does this affect the taste of the water?

We installed the Cloud RO Water System under our sink, attached to the fridge waterline not the faucet. It has been great, nice to have clean ice and drinking water. Pressure is fine. This system has a nice app too.

 

[FarmerCy1]

For those with a whole home RO system- how much space does it take up? Space is already at a premium in our utility room and was wondering how much space it would take up or if it was even feasible with what we have to work with

 

[spierceisu]

We installed the Cloud RO Water System under our sink, attached to the fridge waterline not the faucet. It has been great, nice to have clean ice and drinking water. Pressure is fine. This system has a nice app too.

I would rather attach to our fridge but the sink is in an island and the basement is finished so not a good way to connect to our fridge without tearing stuff up.

 

[spierceisu]

For those with a whole home RO system- how much space does it take up? Space is already at a premium in our utility room and was wondering how much space it would take up or if it was even feasible with what we have to work with

I had thought about going that route, but I have heard the cost is around $10k for a whole home system so not really in my budget.

 

[spierceisu]

Has anyone done a tankless under sink system? I like the fact it takes up less space. It costs more but most don't have good or very few reviews online.

 

[Cloned4Life]

I would rather attach to our fridge but the sink is in an island and the basement is finished so not a good way to connect to our fridge without tearing stuff up.

Yes good point. We did this one in the basement as the bar fridge and sink are very close. We sort of did this as a pilot to see if we liked it. We may potentially look at a whole-home situation at some point.

 

[packattack425]

We installed the Cloud RO Water System under our sink, attached to the fridge waterline not the faucet. It has been great, nice to have clean ice and drinking water. Pressure is fine. This system has a nice app too.

Just installed this as well.

Cloud RO has the top level certification of RO systems.

 

[JP4CY]

Those doing a basement whole home, whats the $ been?

 

[AgronAlum]

Anyone do this for the line running to the fridge?

 

[Triggermv]

For those with a whole home RO system- how much space does it take up? Space is already at a premium in our utility room and was wondering how much space it would take up or if it was even feasible with what we have to work with

Everything you see here cost me $1,800 all in with plumbing, build out and everything running to both sink and refrigerator from the basement. Would have been a bit cheaper with smaller water tanks. This was done last week.

 

[cyfan964]

It's important to know where your water is sourced from. If it's Des Moines water works... I'd absolutely be getting an RO unit. I live in the country and my rural water comes from the the Newton area aquifers (Dolomite Devonian aquifer (often linked to the Cedar Valley aquifer) and the Jordan (Cambrian-Ordovician) aquifer) These aquifers are over 2,000 foot deep and offer way more natural filtration than what comes out of the raccoon.

 

[FarmerCy1]

Everything you see here cost me $1,800 all in with plumbing, build out and everything running to both sink and refrigerator from the basement. Would have been a bit cheaper with smaller water tanks. This was done last week.

Thanks for the photos- your room looks comparable to the space I have, so really helpful!