OPUS offers several types of drinking water systems, of course, but what if you have more than one kitchen in your home (a basement apartment or ‘granny suite,’ e.g.) so you’d have to get and maintain more than one, or if you are so bothered by the chlorine in the water supply that you don’t want to shower or bathe with your existing tap water either, or even wash your clothes with it? Granted, there are dedicated shower filters by Sprite and others to do that, but they are becoming increasingly expensive (as of 2024) and may need to be changed relatively frequently.
Instead of having a series of filters at every water outlet (including many modern fridges which have built-in water coolers or ice-makers and have filters of their own, which may not work that well), a more efficient and ultimately less-costly solution is to just filter all the water entering your whole house, at once, regardless of which rooms it is headed to next.
The OPUS KDF-55 Whole House System is a whole house point-of-entry filtration system designed to filter the water for an entire home or business. (Point of Entry systems are installed where the water enters your home or business, as compared to Point of Use drinking water systems that are usually installed under the sink in your kitchen with a dedicated faucet that dispenses purified drinking water.)
This Whole House system uses three 20″ x 4-5/8″ filter housings equipped with pressure gauges to help determine filter changes, and includes 20 and 5 micron pleated prefilters, and a two-stage filter combining KDF Media and Granulated Activated Carbon (GAC).
KDF Media combined with Granulated Activated Carbon: KDF Media is a zinc/copper formulation that utilizes the principle of electrochemical oxidation reduction (more commonly known as the redox process or redox reaction) to eliminate bad tastes, odors, and water contaminants including lead, chlorine, heavy metals, silver, aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, copper, iron, nickel, zinc, chromium, barium, hydrogen sulfide, radon, selenium, mercury, trihalomethanes, algae, manganese, chloroform, VOCs, trichloroethane, lindane, pesticides and fungi. For municipal water supplies with normal to only slightly elevated levels of iron, the KDF-55 is the appropriate choice.
Because our skin is our second largest organ, we actually absorb more chlorine through the skin in a five minute shower than from drinking 8 glasses of chlorinated water! With a KDF-55 Whole House Filtration system, you can bathe and shower in chlorine-free water. In addition to the bad taste and smell, chlorinated water can cause an increase in a variety of health problems, including asthma, food allergies, birth defects, and bladder and rectal cancer, Another benefit is chlorine-free water is softer and gentler on the skin as compared to chlorinated water, which is drying to the skin and hair.
Included Components:
1. Triple filter 20-Inch Big Blue System with three integrated pressure gauges, to be mounted on a wall in a basement, as close as possible to the point where the water line enters the home or building.
2. Stage 1: 20 Micron Pleated Filter, to filter particles 20 microns and larger.
3. Stage 2: 5 Micron Pleated Filter, to filter particles 5 microns and larger.
4. Stage 3 & 4: KDF Media combined with Granulated Activated Carbon: KDF Media is a zinc/copper formulation that adsorbs chlorine, heavy metals, and eliminates a wide variety of harmful chemicals and contaminants, and improves bad tastes and odors.
5. Filter Wrench, to enable easy opening of the filter housings (the three vertical components) that hold the filters.
6. Five Year Limited Warranty if filters are changed annually.
Please note, this system does not remove fluoride, so if your municipality does fluoridate your water supply, we recommend combining this system with an OPUS drinking water system that adsorbs fluoride (namely, an Advantage, NANO, or AlkaPlus).
More Information > The OPUS KDF-55 Whole House Water Purification System is available at Aviva.
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