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11-12-2011, 07:16 PM
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So, they replaced the main water lines coming into our house and the water tastes awful. Any filters or anything to help get rid of it? |
11-12-2011, 07:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | run a faucet for 24 hours, it'll pass. |
11-12-2011, 07:19 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz Benz Amplification | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Nashville | | | I have a Brita filter that you fill up from the tap. It has a spout like a water cooler so it just sits in the fridge. Holds 18 cups, filters in about ten minutes. There are also filters you hook right to the faucet, and ones that install under the sink. |
11-12-2011, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve  run a faucet for 24 hours, it'll pass. | Its been like a month. It was a pipe for the whole street AFAIK. Quote:
Originally Posted by lowfreq33 I have a Brita filter that you fill up from the tap. It has a spout like a water cooler so it just sits in the fridge. Holds 18 cups, filters in about ten minutes. There are also filters you hook right to the faucet, and ones that install under the sink. | Yeah, could those remove the taste? |
11-12-2011, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | unless something is leeching into the line that should have cleared out by now, especially if it's supplying the whole street.
How does it taste terrible?
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11-12-2011, 07:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | | It tastes kinda plasticy or like some slightly gritty maybe although I could just be making up the gritty part.
I can smell it when I get in the shower too. |
11-12-2011, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by DerHoggz Yeah, could those remove the taste? | It should. My tap water isn't good, it's an older building with older plumbing, there's a metallic taste and a bit of chlorine smell. The filter makes it taste like bottled water. I got mine on sale at Walmart for $25. You have to change the filter about every 2 months, they cost $8-$10. Before I got this I was buying 1 or 2 gallons of water a day for about $1 apiece. |
11-12-2011, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by lowfreq33 It should. My tap water isn't good, it's an older building with older plumbing, there's a metallic taste and a bit of chlorine smell. The filter makes it taste like bottled water. I got mine on sale at Walmart for $25. You have to change the filter about every 2 months, they cost $8-$10. Before I got this I was buying 1 or 2 gallons of water a day for about $1 apiece. | +1
We have a Brita that hooks up to the tap.
$30 (not on sale) and filters cost about the same. Works great!
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11-12-2011, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by lowfreq33 It should. My tap water isn't good, it's an older building with older plumbing, there's a metallic taste and a bit of chlorine smell. The filter makes it taste like bottled water. I got mine on sale at Walmart for $25. You have to change the filter about every 2 months, they cost $8-$10. Before I got this I was buying 1 or 2 gallons of water a day for about $1 apiece. | I used to chug through water all day, but I can't even deal with drinking a glass of it now.
The taste is similar to iron, but not. Same sort of aftertaste. |
11-12-2011, 10:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | You need to talk to the city and have them test the water.
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11-13-2011, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Pilgrim You need to talk to the city and have them test the water. | This ^ |
11-13-2011, 11:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: northeast Ohio | | | yeah you shouldn't have any kind of taste after replacing a line a month ago.
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