brooklyn1 wrote:
> "Janet Wilder" > wrote >

>> We rent the system from Culligan. They service it, including changing the
>> filters. It costs $45 for 2 months and is about what we were paying for
>> bottles water. Our regular tap water tastes terrible.
>>
>>
> Why pray tell are you renting it. You are paying $250 a year for something
> you can buy outright at Lowes and elsewhere for under $200. An RO filter
> needs service only once a year to once every two years depending on usage
> volume... the RO membrane is good for like ten years. Servicving entails
> changing a couple of disposable cartridges, using a few alcohol wipes on the
> fitting threads, and recharging the tank pressure with a bicycle pump. In
> ten years you will have paid $2,500 for what should cost more like $600.


You will go through that procedure but you won't change a car battery?
O...kay!

gloria p