Barrier filter for water: under the sink, jug (reviews)

Drink pure water directly from the tap can, and today, despite its poor quality in water supply - enough to buy for her filter barrier. This modern brand of affordable systems designed for home use. The company produces both inexpensive pitchers and highly effective flow models can be easily connected to the water supply. But all of these items one purpose - to provide its owners with safe drinking water, regardless of its quality in the pipes.

flow-through filters

In fact, this whole multi-stage purification system, which simultaneously works several cartridges. Each of them is doing its job, removing water contaminants, heavy metals, salts, rigidity and pathogens. And together they give the output a "clean tear" that is suitable for drinking. Components of such modules depends on the amount and characteristics of operation of replaceable cartridges. So that at any fluid composition in the water, you can achieve the desired effect by simply connecting one set of filters that will cope with the task. However, the Barrier already have a few ready-made solutions - they suit most buyers.

expert Stiffness

Provides comprehensive cleaning notoriously hard water and are all multi-manufacturer system is equipped with its own crane, installed on a sink. Resource Expert 10 cubic meters, which is considered to be a very decent rate. To achieve this specialist Barrier managed by optimizing the operation of the filter. They are "smarter" and now hold the water hardness at the level of the norm of 1.5-2.5 mEq / L, that is, make it soft, not completely depriving mineral salts.

The set includes three filters:

• Expert Mechanics - performs a pre-cleaning of rust and other suspended solids larger than 5 microns. Resource from 6 months to a year.
• Expert Mitigation - removes Mg ions²⁺ and Ca²⁺But it has a bypass channel, which transmits part of brackish water to the output it does not turn into overly soft. Resource 1-3 months.
• Expert PostKarbon - ion exchanger, providing the finish cleaning and conditioning of water (eliminating the unpleasant smell of chlorine and its compounds). Resource 6-12 months.

Expert set Rigidity is additionally equipped with a special lock, which prevents unscrewing removable cassette, if the system is under the pressure of the water. When replacing it saves the trouble of hitting the fountain from under the sink - SmartLock just will not let you do reinstall, unless you block the gate on the pitch.

pros Hard

Another set of hard water, but with a simple connection to the system and the installation on the hanger. The set consists of the same three of the filter: "Mechanics", "Mitigation" and "PostKarbon", but all of them are already in the pro-version. What gives?

• Magazine prefilter to remove insoluble contaminants with the same size as that of the series expert, has a large field of filtration area. This makes it easier to perform the processing of all incoming water flow.
• Softening unit with an ion exchange resin, not only delays the hardness salts, but replaces them with a small amount of sodium ions. Their deficiency in the body leads to dehydration at the cellular level.
• Tertiary treatment, except chlorine, delays and dissolved iron, which is not able to catch the mechanical filters. Plus Pro PostKarbon disinfects water due to the granules of activated carbon and silver processing.

Pros Complex and Pro Ferrum

These systems are specifically designed for water with a high content of dissolved ferrous iron. Conventional tape to "catch" it can not, because in the solid state, it passes only after oxidation. But a three-stage filter of the barrier is quite able to cope with such a task. Is responsible for this is the first cartridge in the system - Pros FerroStop creating conditions for precipitation of dissolved Fe⁺² in the sediment. Thereafter, the solid became a slurry delayed mechanical filter with a purity of up to 1 micron. The total resource kit 6-12 months.

Barrier Expert Complex and Iron are also able clean water from the dissolved and colloidal Ferrum. But other than that, "experts" and even soften it, removing the salts of magnesium and calcium - the main culprits of scale in kettles, and kidney stones. In this case, the ion exchange takes place in the best traditions of the manufacturer: effective, but without fanaticism.

pros Osmo

Powerful five-water purification system using a reverse osmosis technology and softening effect. Absolute security is provided by special osmotic membrane with tiny holes. They stream is fed under pressure through the net but can pass only water molecules - other impurities barrier does not pass, sending them to the sewer drain. Of course, such a complex system must be properly connected and water supply, and to the drains, but the output you get a crystal clear stream.

The average life of the entire system, depending on the quality of water at the entrance and the intensity of its use is within 5-10 months, but each filter element complete your expectancy work. The design Pro Osmo two mechanical cassette provided, the delay value of the solid particles of 5 microns in the first stage and from 1 micron - the third. There are also new filters Barrier:

• pros sorption

A second purification step where the removal of chlorine compounds not only harmful to the human body, but also for the osmotic membranes. It uses granules of activated carbon obtained from coconut shell. In the cassette are arranged so as to increase surface absorption. Filters six months or a year.

• Pro Osmo 100

The fourth step, in which water gets rid of impurities such as lead, benzene, hardness salts (calcium and magnesium), and even bacteria. Cell size trilayer osmotic membrane only 0.0001 microns resource from 10 to 20 months.

• pros Postfilters

The fifth and final stage, in which water removes odors, and she finally disinfected. Cartridge yield 5-10 months.

On a similar principle works kit K-osmosis, where all the filters are compactly installed in aesthetic plastic box. However, purification steps are only four - there is no fine "Mechanics", but the sorption unit holds not only chlorine but also carcinogenic benzene. A shared resource system 5-10 months.

Other types of filters

Beauty - original filters for water barrier, installed in the shower. They do not reduce flow pressure, but manage to clear it of chlorine, which can provoke various allergic reactions. Resource sorption cartridge is small - only 2-4 months, but in all that time it will be possible to get rid of the constant feeling of over-dry the skin after bathing.

Aqualino - single filter for flowing water with quick release fittings and mounting rack. It is a compact integrated water purification system that does not require additional softening. Resource from 3 months to six months. Use this cartridge can be where full-size systems simply do not fit. When this cassette is built in one portion able to remove water from a huge number of various harmful impurities:

• solids rust and sand;
• chlorine compounds and benzene;
• copper, mercury, lead.

Pitchers - simple and effective drinking water filters, consisting of two tanks. The top liquid is poured from the tap and gets rid of contaminants passing through the inserted mini-cartridge. From it, already cleared and safe, it flows to the bottom of the jug. The total amount of these wonderful devices 2-3,8 liters, so drink enough for the whole family.