Writersblock,

There's a lot that goes into considering the "best" water filtration system for your needs. Do you know specifically what is in your water that you want to filter out -- is it particles, chemicals, both? If chemicals, what is present? Also, I'm trying to figure out why you're trying to filter warmish water. Is your cold water warm?

I'd be happy to offer suggestions once I have some additional information.

>Do you know specifically what is in your water that you want to filter out -- is it particles, chemicals, both? If chemicals, what is present?

Yes, both. Carbon tetrachloride is the biggest chemical present (the board president's wife dislikes the sulfur smell from the water in its native state), but also a number of others. It's quite a long list. My O2Pur does claim to filter for all of them, if that helps any. There's a lot of iron, also.

And for much of the year the water temperature here is at or above 80º, out of the cold faucet. It only goes below 72 or so for a few days during extended cold spells.

Sorry for the double post. I don't know why this is happening, but when I hit post it seems to post but also tell me my message was rejected.

You probably want to consider either a 2-stage undercounter system or a reverse osmosis (RO) system. An RO system will take up more room under your sink and it takes about 3 gallons of water to make 1 gallon of filtered water. However, RO systems tend to remove more contaminants than 2-stage filters. With any of these filters, you'll want to look at the specs to see what contaminants they remove and how the efficiency of removal is affected by water temperature. I recently installed a Sears 2-stage and I just quickly checked the literature and it says that it works up to 100 deg.

By the way, is installing a whole house filter an option? Depending upon what contaminants are in your water and at what levels, you may want to consider this instead as it will filter all the water in your home.

HTH

Thanks, shapco.

>By the way, is installing a whole house filter an option?

Not really. I can probably hide one of the sediment filters behind the hedge where the water enters the house and nobody will see it, but it's a small townhouse with no basement or anything so there's really no place to put a complete system.

utility closet?

>utility closet?

I wish. There's a living room closet completely filled with the water heater and that's about it. These places weren't really designed to live in. They were built for people who'd come down and spend six to eight weeks in the winter and then go back up North to their spacious homes. :)

I'm really asking for one of my neighbors and she's giving up a full sized range to make room for a sink base with enough room for a filtration system. That's how tight it is.