Distilled Water

[Mister Moo]

I bought some of the same stuff (from a grocery store!) and poured it directly on 2006 crop of green foam, then put it all inside a humidor. The foam never cracks and it keeps the cigars... real nice. Great lead.

[Mbraud4]

Best distilled water review I've seen yet!

[Eternal Rider]

Which brand of distilled water is best for cubans?

[ca21455]

You guys are all out to lunch. Here is how you get good water. First you build a house you can't afford. Then since your out in the country you drop $1,100.00 to get a water softener to get rid of the hard well water. Of course you don't want to drink all that sodium so you drop another $600.00 and install a reverse osmosis unit and run in to all your sinks and refrigerators, another $500.00.

[SIZE=4]AND WHAT DOES THE SALESMEN TELL ME AFTER I SPENT ALL THIS MONEY????[/SIZE]

You don't have to pay for water anymore!

Hell for the cost of salt, filters, resins, carbon, etc... I could own a water company by now!

Yes, I had a crappy day.

BTW, nice post Dave.

[The Professor]

Originally Posted by Eternal Rider

Which brand of distilled water is best for cubans?

Have the Friday night Skype bandits returned???

~d.

[Ozone89]

Originally Posted by ca21455

You guys are all out to lunch. Here is how you get good water. First you build a house you can't afford. Then since your out in the country you drop $1,100.00 to get a water softener to get rid of the hard well water. Of course you don't want to drink all that sodium so you drop another $600.00 and install a reverse osmosis unit and run in to all your sinks and refrigerators, another $500.00.

[SIZE=4]AND WHAT DOES THE SALESMEN TELL ME AFTER I SPENT ALL THIS MONEY????[/SIZE]

You don't have to pay for water anymore!

Hell for the cost of salt, filters, resins, carbon, etc... I could own a water company by now!

Yes, I had a crappy day.

BTW, nice post Dave.

In my professional opinion, you didn't need to have a reverse osmosis system. Plus the Water softner is supposed to be by-passed from the Kitchen sink (cooking purposes)and all of your outside faucets. If you water your plants or bushes or whatever..soften water takes the nutrients out..that plants and bushes need.
I'm sure your well is safe to drink, or you wouldn't be allowed to tap into it. Your refrig should be by-passed as well. It's safe to drink soften water..but you shouldn't make it a habit of drinking it.
But everything else is being protected, and if installed correctly, you will rarely see a Plumber because of a hardness issue with your water.

IMO..everyone building a house should make a water softner their first investment.

* Protects all of your faucets
* Protects all of your toilets from getting a calcium or lime and rust build up. Once that stuff gets caught internally in your toilet, it's a matter of time until you start to get a sluggish flush etc.
*Protects Washer machine
*Dish washer
*Boiler or Water heater
* You don't use as much soap when you do laundry

For $1000.00 -$1500.00 installed..is nothing, compared to the Plumbing bills you will be paying to fix or replace those things.

I've had customers tell me.."I don't want a water softner cause..it's going to make me feel slimy". lol.. I've had a water softner for 30 years..you don't feel slimy...your skin feels soft! This isn't ghostbusters were ghosts are going to slim you.

Most people on wells where I live..get the water softner..then get those big 5 gallon jugs of water for drinking purposes.

[a2vr6]

Originally Posted by Mindflux

One should read up on drinking distilled waters. The LACK of minerals in it can cause problems (if used for human consumption). Please folks drink spring water, not distilled or deionized water.

Funny review though.

Actually this has been considered an Urban Myth. One would have to drink hundreds of glasses of regular water to get ones daily Mineral count. Mineral's should come from foods we eat etc. Distilled water is MUCH better for you than regular water.

[ca21455]

Originally Posted by Ozone89

In my professional opinion, you didn't need to have a reverse osmosis system. Plus the Water softner is supposed to be by-passed from the Kitchen sink (cooking purposes)and all of your outside faucets. If you water your plants or bushes or whatever..soften water takes the nutrients out..that plants and bushes need.
I'm sure your well is safe to drink, or you wouldn't be allowed to tap into it. Your refrig should be by-passed as well. It's safe to drink soften water..but you shouldn't make it a habit of drinking it.
But everything else is being protected, and if installed correctly, you will rarely see a Plumber because of a hardness issue with your water.

IMO..everyone building a house should make a water softner their first investment.

* Protects all of your faucets
* Protects all of your toilets from getting a calcium or lime and rust build up. Once that stuff gets caught internally in your toilet, it's a matter of time until you start to get a sluggish flush etc.
*Protects Washer machine
*Dish washer
*Boiler or Water heater
* You don't use as much soap when you do laundry

For $1000.00 -$1500.00 installed..is nothing, compared to the Plumbing bills you will be paying to fix or replace those things.

I've had customers tell me.."I don't want a water softner cause..it's going to make me feel slimy". lol.. I've had a water softner for 30 years..you don't feel slimy...your skin feels soft! This isn't ghostbusters were ghosts are going to slim you.

Most people on wells where I live..get the water softner..then get those big 5 gallon jugs of water for drinking purposes.

I agree, however my wife drinks strictly water, hardly anything else and she really likes the taste (or lack of) coming out of the RO unit. Anyway I do get "free" DI water any time I want it!

[clovis]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Indeed my good Watson. Amatures of water purification often ignore the subtle molecular changes that occur during slow ageing of purified water. Freshly distilled and purified water has 4 hydrogen bonds per molecule. During extended peaceful rest, the number of hydrogen bonds per molecule slowly changes, and ultimately reaches √16 .... I'm sure even an amature water afficianado such as yourself you can appreciate the impact of this change on the quality.

Oh ... and if anybody is interested ... I have mangums of 1961 Chateau la Tour de Morans that I can sell for a VERY resonable price ... $1575 + shipping. Looking at the recent prices that this fine aqueous treat have been achieving at Christies, you can see that this is a substantial discount from retail.

Mmmm....hydrogen bonds
I especially like the 7 yr old burnt variety.

Yup, I recently converted my everyday coolerdor into a what I like to call a "cooler" in which to store my aged water...
I'll load pics at some point for this conversion.

Seangar: I'd like to add that HF tastes even better...about 18% better as F has higher elecrtronegativity, thereby making better hydrogen "bonds"

[Big D]

your nuts!!

[Freeman]

Do you think it would be safe to use water in my humi that was double active carbon filtered, and then passed through another filtering device that uses salt (I believe the salt is an indication that this devise employs reverse osmosis); what do you think?

Ken

[replicant_argent]

an RO unit does not use salt.

A typical RO uses a prefilter including carbon filtration to remove some contaminants, including chlorine, which is detrimental to the Ro membrane, which is the component that performs the lions share of the work, a storage tank, and a post filter, also of activated carbon. The "lack of mineral content in drinking water is bad for you" argument is a fallacy. The form of calcium, for instance, in water is not one that is soluble in the body. As for other minerals, the quantity available in municipal and well water applications would require that you drink about a bathtub full of water to make a dent in your RDA.

Pete
(Ceritfied Water Specialist)
CWS III


http://www.wqa.org/

[fulloflead]

[SIZE="4"]Pure H2O is very corrosive.[/SIZE]

Pure H2O is rather unstable, that is, it 'wants' to bond with other things.

I worked for a printing company that had a system that would filter water down to nearly-pure H20 for our printing chemistry. Stainless hose clamps would rust down to crumble in a couple months.

When compared to water containing minerals, pure H2O is relatively bad for you. As it passes through your body, the H2O, being a substance that inherently wants to bond with other things, will bond with elements as it passes through your digestive system DEPRIVING YOU of those elements which would have, otherwise, entered your body instead of bonding with that pure H2O and then LEAVING your body.

Try it. Put a piece of carbon steel in a glass of tap water and a glass of distilled water and watch which one rusts faster.

All of this, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with how it works in humidification systems.

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[replicant_argent]

Originally Posted by fulloflead

[SIZE="4"]Pure H2O is very corrosive.[/SIZE]



All of this, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with how it works in humidification systems.

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Or the level of purity available in a consumer grade RO.
but yes, PURE water is weird stuff, and you won't find it anywhere near your average Joe consumer. You would find it in manufacturing or laboratory settings.

[RPB67]

No matter what, you want to use distilled water. And here is why.
Distilled water has no minerals, no chemicals and no bacteria.

This is important when we are putting water into a device that is designed to be higher in humidity than normal. We don't want nastly little green things forming, or our cigars to taste like junk.

Distilled water is very pure, and is ridiculously cheap. You can buy it at the super market for around $1.00 a gallon. So go on, cough up a buck and buy yourself the good stuff. You are worth it.

Taken from an email I recieved.