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I'm thinking of getting a Berkey water free finally :cheer

I'm looking at the Big Berkey. How often do you need to change the filters? Does it use one filter at a time? Is water left on the counter for 2-3 days still safe to drink or is that taken care of in the filtration system?

Which Berkey do you have and are you happy with that one?

Tia! :heart

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Ours is one of the smaller ones. Your filters are good for 5-10 years and need cleaned once a month or so.


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I have the Light. I like being able to see when it needs refilling.

We use it for the dogs, cooking, indoor plants, and drink a ton of water. I refill it about twice a day. I haven't replaced my black filters yet and we've had it 3 years. I have the fluoride filters also and those need to be replaced every year.

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I don't know the brand (being an Australian :wink) but I assume you are talking about a house water filter? We are looking into getting one of those in the next year.

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We have the one that's a little less than 3 gallons. We've had it about 18 months and have not changed the filter yet. Cleaned it maybe 2-3 times, it needs to be cleaned again I think. I refill it every other day in the winter, every day in the summer.

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We have the Royal Berkey. I should probably clean the filters. I should probably look up how to clean the filters.

For our family of 6 using it for drinking water, a perpetual crockpot of chicken broth, making kombucha, and a decent amount of coffee, it's adequate, but I have to remember to refill it twice a day, which means it sometimes runs dry.

If you get the flouride filters, they need to be replaced every 6 months to a year, depending on how often you fill it.

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We have the second to largest size. For the longest time we didn't have enough water and we would run out every night at dinner no matter how many times I refilled it throughout the day. Finally I convinced dh to try scrubbing the filters and now it works great. So just remember to scrub your filters when the flow slows down!

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We have the light. We LOVE it! Everyone loves our water. My parents and sister both bought theirs because of ours. :) My parents have the....Big one? I think?

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How do you scrub yours?

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Thank you everyone, this is all very helpful :)

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Dh just used a clean scotch brite type pad. It took him about 10 minutes and solved a problem that had been going on 6 months or more:doh

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I have the BIGGEST one. Well, not the one recommended for orhpangages but the second one down. I am so glad I have the big one. First, it's not plastic. Second, I fill it nightly. We use that much water. Drinking water, tea, cooking rice, making broth or other soups, we almost empty the whole thing every day. I think we have 2 filters. You can have one or lots. The more filters you have the faster it fills the lower tank.

You're supposed to clean it once a week (it's very fast) but I probably two mine twice a month. I've been using it this way for 2.5 years without problem.

The Berkey also alkalizes water naturally. The first house we lived in (the on you visited :heart) had very rusty, acidic water. The pH of the water was 5! After running it through the Berkey it was rust-free, delicious, and with a pH of 7.5

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ETA I have the Royal Berkey.

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I think we have the Imperial Berkey. We only use 2 filters.

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Where do you guys keep it? We don't have enough counter space and our counters are high and our cabinets are low:-/

I worry about it getting tipped over. My husband hates the water here and has been buying bottled water. It is just so wasteful to me and I could put that money towards a Berkey instead.

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When we first got it, I used a small table that the top was about 15x15 and was about the height of an end table. Maybe just a tad higher. I think it was for plants or something. I bought it for $5 at the thrift store. It was functional, but not exactly what we would like to have had. I considered painting.

When my MIL was moving in, she was going to get rid of a table that was the same height, but a bit bigger with a drawer and a shelf under/in it. It has enough room to also keep a pitcher for filling it up. It sits on that in the corner of the dining room. I can reach it to fill glasses without getting up during dinner. :O :lol The table is caddy-corner to decrease the chances of it getting knocked over.

At my mom's, she has an alcove next to the fridge just big enough for a microwave cart. She has hers on that, right next to the fridge.

Oh, I forgot that until we got the first little table it was on the end of the island. I didn't like that *at all*. Always afraid it would get knocked over and it took up a lot of space. It was also really high for refilling.