The quality of your water source is the first thing you should look into. If you are worried about chlorine, unpleasant color and odor and sediments then a decent under sink or counter top filter can fill your water filtration requirements.
However if you are in a sprawling metropolis with a vulnerable water source to industrial pollution you will have to install a whole house filter for two reasons: first, you need a very good system that can filter a whole lot of potent contaminants and second, you have to make sure that all the water in your house is filtered in a centralized manner before reaching the tip of every faucet. Heavy metals and pesticides can enter the body through skin pores. If you are drinking safe, filtered water but taking a bath in raw water, your preventive efforts are worth nothing. The water you drink, bath in and cook with must all be filtered and accessible to your bathroom, kitchen sink and even bath sink (for brushing teeth) all at the same time.
Because of this huge filtered water requirement, your whole house water filter must be able to have a capacity of up to 10 gallons per minute (gpm) to make sure you do not find yourself all soaped up but unable to rinse in time. Besides, it doesn’t make any sense if you are filtering your water centrally without the needed quantity all the time.
One very important thing to do before buying your very own whole house water filtration system is to look back and study your house’s blueprint. Remember that you do not want to end up with a system that will oblige you to do re plumbing for your whole house. Your whole house filter must complement your built in plumbing for you to have easy installation.
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