Anyone filter their drinking water?

NeilF · 22 Sep 2010 at 14:58

Do you notice any difference? (Guess depends on area)

We're fitting a new kitchen so just wondering whether to bother with a filter unit or not for drinking water.

cHk4 · 22 Sep 2010 at 14:59

Yes, tastes different. I prefer it.

chimponarope · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:01

Comes through the fridge and has a filter on the pipe. I can notice a difference, wife won't even touch the tap water, cat won't drink the filtered water, so must be different.

Greenlizard0 · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:01

Really does depend on the area. I've always lived in areas with such bad drinking water I bought a Brita Filter thing.

lurkio · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:01

Filtered F T W

krooton · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:02

Nope. I've found tapwater in London perfectly acceptable.

It has tasted strange in a few other cities, but 99% of the water I drink is London-based, so woot.

We have a Brita filter, but there is never enough room in the fridge for it, and I don't like my drinking water lukewarm.

Koalaboy · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:03

We use a brita filter kettle. All drinking water ends up being filtered and boiled. Not from any 'worry' but just out of habit.

Sp00n · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:04

Nope, I drink it from puddles in the garden because I'm hardkoar!

jack.mitchell · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:04

Perfectly fine up in Holmfirth and suprisingly enough down in Leicester. However all the girls in my house in Leicester use filters.

*All southerners so I just assume they're soft and pretentious.

gjrc · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:06

filter it but only because that means it goes in the fridge.

Narziss · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:06

Chuck Norris would have problems drinking my tap water it's that hard. We use a Brita filter.

Participant · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:06

All ours goes through a Brita fridge door filter, unless it's for tea.

The main reason for this is so it's cold, rather than necessarily more clean or tasty.

Cosimo · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:10

We use a Brita Filter jug for drinking water. It's nice to have it cold out of the fridge.

lucky13 · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:11

At my mums house i prefer the taste of the water from the sink in the bathroom to the kitchen, it is strange but it just tastes so much better.

Im weird!

NeilF · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:13

lucky13 said:
At my mums house i prefer the taste of the water from the sink in the bathroom!

That would be the water that's sat up in her cold water tank (in the loft) with loads of dead spiders in it?

tres · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:13

Love the tap water here - certainly doesn't need filtering

mame · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:15

NeilFawcett said:
That would be the water that's sat up in her cold water tank (in the loft) with loads of dead spiders in it?

if he has 2 cold water tanks, maybe

Wizzfizz · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:15

NeilFawcett said:
That would be the water that's sat up in her cold water tank (in the loft) with loads of dead spiders in it?

lol indeed

The IPB · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:16

I drink tap water, filtered tastes weird.

Semiskimmed · 22 Sep 2010 at 15:19

different areas are totally different,
my house is drinkable direct from the tap
brothers place is awful, tastes bad and he has to filter it, even to make a cup of tea with
mothers place is slightly better but still has to filter to drink