Hard water filter help

[bigshrimp]

My deep well puts out water at about 300 tds, pretty much all of it is calcium carbonate.

I'm looking for a water filter that i can attach to a standard garden hose that would drop my ppms by a couple hundred points.

Not really wanting to go full RO, i'd really just like to make it a little less hard. I also have no drain accessible for this unit.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks - Shrimp

 

[PetFlora]

You can buy a DI cartridge, which will pull everything, but in so doing, it gets clogged and needs to be cleaned professionally.

Companies that provide large DI cylinders to Kidney Dialysis centers can do it, but probably won't do a small cartridge.

Maybe they will rent you a cylinder and replace as needed

That's the ticket. You could also T it into your incoming water to the house

If you do b careful with the soap. Literally one drop of liquid soap mixed into DI water will create a ton of suds

 

[budleydoright]

There are a few options but they all cost about 50c a gallon. One would be a pour through pitcher (some can give you less than 100 ppm). There are also some car wash attachments that have a no spot rinse that will output pretty close to 0 ppm water. Both of these can be purchased at wal mart, but you can also buy bottled water there for about the same price per gallon.

 

[bigshrimp]

Thanks for the suggestions i'm going to look into those.

I only need to produce about 20 gallons max daily, so this does not have to be a huge system.

 

[budleydoright]

20 gallons a day I would look at a tankless ro from ebay about 80 bucks.

 

[Granger2]

If you want some mins in you water, you can always mix RO and tap. Good luck. -granger

 

[JVonChron]

maybe look into an RV water filter? they fit on standard hose, just need a pressure regulator to get it down to whatever they say the proper psi is but those are super cheap. they last ~100 days and do about the level of purifying you seem to want. found the Camco 40631 EVO Premium RV Water Filter and Camco 40043 TastePURE RV Water Filter on amazon.

 

[Czech Brothers]

Only Reverse Osmosis filter can decrease ppm. Hydrologic water systems manufactures a high-quality tankless ro filter. with little waste.

 

[VAtransplant]

No new input here. I have 700ppm water in an outskirt of Denver. 60 miles up in the city i used to live in it was 30. One of the things I actually miss the most, not only due to plants but aquarium, shower heads, etc. Some foul stuff.

Anyway, I spent a little more than I've seen in above posts but got the iSpring RO unit (wish I had gotten the RO/DI for the sake of my salt water aquarium). But puts out 11ppm now. Huge reduction. Mine has a nice little faucet that I installed in my kitchen sink but the ones that require a little DIY/float valve tend to be cheaper. I fully intend to take mine with me when I leave this apartment so don't let the process nor permanency deter you. Money well spent. I used to haul 5g water jugs from walmart :\

Er edit: No drain? Install RO somewhere else in the house if you have to, unless you want to rig up some rather large waste water catch or dump it out the window. IMO typical water softeners for whole house setups aren't that fantastic.

 

[SourSmoke]

Did you ever try any plants out with the higher PPM water? Was it a huge difference?

No new input here. I have 700ppm water in an outskirt of Denver. 60 miles up in the city i used to live in it was 30. One of the things I actually miss the most, not only due to plants but aquarium, shower heads, etc. Some foul stuff.

Anyway, I spent a little more than I've seen in above posts but got the iSpring RO unit (wish I had gotten the RO/DI for the sake of my salt water aquarium). But puts out 11ppm now. Huge reduction. Mine has a nice little faucet that I installed in my kitchen sink but the ones that require a little DIY/float valve tend to be cheaper. I fully intend to take mine with me when I leave this apartment so don't let the process nor permanency deter you. Money well spent. I used to haul 5g water jugs from walmart :\

 

[VAtransplant]

Did you ever try any plants out with the higher PPM water? Was it a huge difference?

Yeah, they show huge issues ~48 hrs later. Actually just stubbornly tried 25% tap / 75% RO the other day thinking maybe something had changed. Extreme yellowing. With 700ppm who knows what the hell it's comprised of. Better to know exactly what you're giving your plants in my opinion. And it's nice having non-sulfur smelling water to drink. Have definitely gotten my $ out of it.