Aquatec

C_Ronaldo

Ive done a search on the forums but i cant see any posts regarding aquatec, has anyone got a water filtration system from these guys, heres the website http://www.lovelypurewater.co.uk/

Adrian_S_2

Just had the sales rep from Aquatec in - does anyone have any hard evidence of the savings these systems can deliver?

moonrakerz

I would steer well clear of something that claims to "polish" your water !!

Probably "because you're worth it" !

Ememem_2

Hi - just signed up - but might cancel... does anyone have any evidence or comparisons if this is a good thing to do... it certainly seems it? Need answers ASAP please.... thanks

OxfordshireSaver

Well we had one of these guys around for an hour.
3 hours of hard sell later he was kicked out. Monday morning I received a phone call with more hard sell by quite an offensive person.
Heck when I mentioned 14 days cooling off period the reaction was that would be wasting their time so he'd have it installed in 5 days and that's that so I should write him a cheque out and just go for it.
Frankly I don't have much time for these sales ethics. If I was elderly or vulnerable in any way I expect I'd have my high tech water filter installed and be out of pocket by 4 grand by now.

If you ask me you should steer clear and go with independent reviews.
Apart from the hard sell and 4 grand price tag it actually looks like a nice system but then theres a few nice systems for a lot less money.

walmslei

Looking at what it is trying to do I would have thought you could produce 'similar' resulks with the following equipment.

• A standard metered water softener (circa £450)
• A 20" Big Blue Carbon Dechlorinator (circa £100)
• A 20" Big Blue Sediment Filter (circa £75)
• Any under counter reverse omsosis system - circa £200

That to my mind is an approximate cost, parts wise of about £825, and you'd be looking for most domestic applications in paying maybe £250 to £400 or so to a plumber for installation, so at a push £1200 or so. Worth having an independent plumber take a look and pricing up the kit yourselves in my opinion.

I work in the water filter industry (see previous posts). If you want just good quality drinking water then an RO system will achieve that without any of the other kit. The bulk of the cost is in treating 'other' water, which does have benefits (a softener is actually a pretty good investment), but some people are not too concerned about this, and worry more about the drinking side.

With a system spec'd as above you'd save a fair bit initially and then you'd be looking at running costs of something like:

• £7 per month for a bag of salt (mabye every six weeks - depends on use)
• £60 every six months for whole house carbon/sediment filters
• £30 every six months for replacement RO filters

That gives you a running cost, in my reckoning of somewhere near £240 per annum or thereabouts which when you consider the amount of kit you've got installed and the product water you'd be getting is not too bad really.

You can skip an RO system if you can get a bypass before the softener to the kitchen sink of course. There should always be a supply of 'sodium-free' water on any artificially softened system.