Water filter

The water around here is nasty! There's a very definite sulfur smell and all kinds of other stuff in this very hard water. So we've had a water softener installed to remove much of the minerals. Last weekend I installed an under-sink water filter to remove the chlorine and some more of the yuck. In the apartment, we were buying distilled water for drinking. It is so nice to no longer have to mess with all those plastic water jugs and thinking of how many eons those things would sit in a landfill.

The bummer about the install, however, was that I had to buy $20 worth of fittings to tap into the water line. The other sinks in the house have water valves like what I have always seen in the past at every place I've lived. But in the kitchen, the sink was plumbed with these weird valves that have the valve and hose as a single, integral unit. My guess is this was a cost-saving measure. For the hapless homeowner (me), however, this meant a trip to the store for several adapter pieces. It always seems that the jobs I think will take an hour end up taking 3!