| When buying a home water filter, most people don't | | | | water filtration system will cost you over the year: |
| take into account how much the water filtration | | | | Initial system cost + [Cost of filter x {12 months |
| system filters that you have to replace cost. Here's a | | | | how long each filter lasts}] = TOTAL COST |
| simple way to assure that you understand the full | | | | Then to find out how much is cost on a monthly |
| cost of a water filtration system before you | | | | basis, divide that number by 12. This will give you a |
| purchase it. | | | | much better idea as to how much a water filtration |
| A perfect example of this happening is when people | | | | system and filters cost. |
| buy those pour-through pitchers. They are the most | | | | Another way to bring the cost of water filtration |
| popular type of water filter, simply because they only | | | | system filters into perspective is to calculate a per |
| cost around $25 to get. But what most people don't | | | | gallon cost of use. To do this, all you have to do is |
| take into account is how much and how often the | | | | take the cost of each replacement filter and divide it |
| water filtration system filters have to be replaced. | | | | by the number of gallons it's able to filter effectively. |
| Each filter needs to be replaced around 3 times a | | | | Since I've already looked at tons of systems, let me |
| month, and a pack of 3 filters costs about $24. So | | | | give you an idea as to what I settled with... |
| over the course of a year, it actually costs around | | | | The filtration unit I ended up getting attaches right to |
| $300 to use it! | | | | my kitchen faucet and sits on the counter. It initially |
| Now don't get me wrong: paying $300 a year on | | | | cost $100, and the replacement water filtration |
| home water filtration is pretty reasonable. But for | | | | system filters last 5 months, cost $50 and can filter |
| that much, you can get a much more effective and | | | | 500 gallons of water. So for the first year, it only |
| higher quality system. | | | | costs $150 to use and then every year after only |
| Without getting too mathematical on you hopefully, | | | | costs $100. That works out to a per gallon cost of |
| here's the general formula to calculate how much a | | | | use of only 10 cents a gallon! |