What I can add...Re: Water Distiller Questions-Anne, Telluride & others

I'm working on your 'order' responses now, but I just took a break, so I'll answer what I can...

>>>I noticed on the information for the distiller that it distills a gallon every 5 to 5.5 hours. Since the goal is for me to drink about ½ gallon a day I am guessing it has to run all day? <<<

Ruh-roh-Rastro, I'm either not understanding, or you need to find ye ole thinking cap (lol). It makes 1 gallon in five hours and your need 1/2 gallon day...so why would it need to run all day. Running for five hours makes a gallon, so in one 5 hour period you'd have enough for TWO days (meaning you'd only run it every-other-day for 5 hours, if that's all the water you need.

>>>What do you store the water once it is distilled? I am guessing I need a couple of containers to store the water. Do you know of anything I could purchase? I have Mason Jars but the largest I have is a quart size.<<<

You can use your quart jars to store the water if you want to do that. I run a big glass pitcher full of R/O water and leave it on my counter for drinking, and then I keep a large glass 'canister' (without the top) right beside it for 'cooking water'. You could get a cheap/glass "ice tea jar/dispenser" almost anywhere that'd work just fine, too :)

>>>Uny mentioned that she thought distillers gave off heat? Do you notice that with your distiller? I live in a small apartment with my Mom and I don’t want to be heating the whole kitchen up. We also live in Florida so it is hot enough here!<<<

All water distillers 'give off heat' (because they boil the water so that it turns to steam...so that the poisons evaporate. Then the water condenses and drips back down into the container at the end). Since it's boiling water for several hours, it's basically the same amount of heat as boiling water on the stove. If 'heat' is a problem in the apartment, then you could run an extension cord under the door and do the distilling outside (???). Of course, if you fear someone might walk by and steal your new distiller, that's not an option.

>>>Do I need to worry about fluoride or chloramine?<<<

Distillers remove fluoride & chlorine, but not chloramine. You *need* the activated charcoal filter!

>>>I believe that neither of you use the filter that came with the distiller, is that correct?<<<

I sure hope they're using it (particularly if they have chloramine in the tap water where they are...not all cities use chloramine). Also, distilled water is totally "empty" when it comes out (meaning it can 'pull' various gasses from the air). Making sure you use the activated charcoal filter means the water will not be totally empty.

'Don't know if you saw the FAQ at the distiller site http://www.a1-water-distiller.com/a-faq.htm#maintenance,
but there's a lot of good information there if you didn't.

Heal ON!

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