How to choose for the home: where it goes, which water, which treatment
Three questions, in this order. Your kitchen answers the first, your habits the second, your mains water the third.
| The question | The possible answers |
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| Where does it go? | Under the sink, with a mixer tap that replaces your kitchen tap, or a dedicated tap next to it: nothing shows on the worktop, and the unit is under 20 cm wide. · On the worktop, next to the sink: also under 20 cm wide, with touch controls. · Filtered tap: the simplest option, ambient water only. |
| Which water do you want? | Ambient only, or also chilled, or also sparkling. Sparkling needs a CO₂ cylinder: the first is included with the purchase (1.3 kg, about 260 litres of sparkling water), refills are separate. Under the sink the mixer is 4-way without sparkling and 5-way with sparkling. |
| Which treatment? | It depends on your water: microfiltration is almost always enough for taste and chlorine, ultrafiltration adds a barrier on the bacterial load, reverse osmosis is for very mineral-rich water. If the problem is limescale on the boiler and washing machine, you need a water softener instead. How they work · Home solutions compared |
The real cost is over time, not on the day you buy
A purifier is paid for once, but it lives for years. The cost that matters has three parts: the system (once, installation included), scheduled maintenance (a yearly fee, with the visit, sanitization and filter change) and CO₂ refills if you drink sparkling. In the quote we put all three in writing, item by item, so you compare with what you spend on bottles today on real numbers.