Happy Tuesday! Instead of hitting you with the next installment in our TV stand build, I wanted to do a few posts here and there on some other unrelated home improvement projects. Wasn’t originally my intention of doing 8 furniture posts in a row, but that’s just kind of how it worked out. I haven’t worked on it lately anyway, since Lisa and I were in Florida this past weekend for a destination wedding. It was on Captiva Island. Awesome time. I’m literally covered in bug bites, but it was a blast.
If you’ve been following our blog for a while now, you may remember that we installed a reverse osmosis system under our kitchen sink around a year ago (actually last September). I wanted to do a follow up with our readers to let everyone know how it was going. Were we using it? Did we still like it? This was actually the second water filtration system we added to our house, with the other being the filter on the fridge.
Well, I wanted to let you know that we love it. Big time. We use it ALL THE TIME. It tastes great.
We quickly got sick of our in-fridge filter some time ago, but we’ve been solid fans of the reverse osmosis system from day 1. If you drink a lot of bottled water, then I’d jump to get one of these systems.
We use the water for everything… tea, coffee, pasta and of course plain ol’ drinking water.
We bought the system at Lowes. It’s certainly not cheap, retailing today for just under $150. The filters need to be replaced every six months and they can set you back around $95 per change out. It’s still cheaper than buying bottled water though, at least for us. If you spend around $8 a week on bottled water, then in the first year you’d break even after around 7.5 months. In the second year and thereafter, your entire year’s worth of replacement filters would pay for themselves after just 6 months. It’s like drinking for free half of the year. Granted, I still have to pay for the water from the utility company, but that’s not much at all.
Another advantage has been the lack of empty plastic water bottles around the house. I can’t tell you how quickly our recycling container would fill up with those things.
Installation wasn’t a big deal either. Just about anyone can put one in.
So that’s it. This isn’t a sponsored post or anything, I just wanted to let everyone know how it was going. I’ve always been curious about what a home bloggers project looks like 1 or 2 years after the fact. Thought you might find it useful, especially if you were thinking about picking one up yourself.
Later this week, we dive back into our custom media cabinet and make some doors!
