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At $.88 a gal. from Walmart, why would you want to go any other way. I go thru a gal. every 13-15 days, thats right around $1.76 a month, $21.12 a year. You gotta be kidding me.

Guest wrote:At $.88 a gal. from Walmart, why would you want to go any other way. I go thru a gal. every 13-15 days, thats right around $1.76 a month, $21.12 a year. You gotta be kidding me.

uhh..some people are homebound. Some live in a rural area where you have to go many miles to get distilled (28 miles from my brother's house). Still others travel by public transportation. Have you ever tried lugging groceries on the bus? Want to add another gallon of WATER to your 1 gallon of milk and multiple cans of veggies?

Plus, some people use RO for all their cooking and coffee.

I've always used tap water. When I start to see deposits, I put about a tablespoon of CLR in and flush it out thoroughly with running water. A small amount of CLR removes those deposits very quickly, and then it's just a matter of rinsing all the CLR out.

Guest wrote:At $.88 a gal. from Walmart, why would you want to go any other way. I go thru a gal. every 13-15 days, thats right around $1.76 a month, $21.12 a year. You gotta be kidding me.

That assumes there is a Walmart where you can get at it. Now I have a car but before in order to get to a Walmart I had to take a bus and two subways and then hike across 6 lane expressway with 4 lanes of service roads. That when it is -25c with blowing snow is just wonderful.

Oh and a gallon here is about $2.99 Cdn.

Guest wrote:At $.88 a gal. from Walmart, why would you want to go any other way. I go thru a gal. every 13-15 days, thats right around $1.76 a month, $21.12 a year. You gotta be kidding me.

Why bother with schlepping gallons of water at all when you can have an under counter RO system and use it for everything? My wife no longer goes through a case or more of bottled water a week (saves 200 bucks a year right there but for me it is the convenience, not the cost)

Sorry, I stand corrected

A gallon of distilled (Walmart - $.88) lasts me about 2 1/2 - 3 months using "passover" (non-heated) humidification.
Occasionally, I use Brita filtered water to stretch it out.
No problems.


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Wulfman... wrote:A gallon of distilled (Walmart - $.88) lasts me about 2 1/2 - 3 months using "passover" (non-heated) humidification.
Occasionally, I use Brita filtered water to stretch it out.
No problems.


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when it comes to usage, I am with the OP; I use a gallon every 12 to 13 days

flightco wrote:

Wulfman... wrote:A gallon of distilled (Walmart - $.88) lasts me about 2 1/2 - 3 months using "passover" (non-heated) humidification.
Occasionally, I use Brita filtered water to stretch it out.
No problems.


Den

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when it comes to usage, I am with the OP; I use a gallon every 12 to 13 days

Me too, with my airsense 10 auto and p10 nasal pillows and humidity set at auto. Two weeks is about the most I can expect. Still it seems to work well because I don't have any excess moisture in my mask or hose.

I'm also a member of the "top it up" club - I don't empty and wash the tank but just add enough distilled water every night to get to the fill line. It hasn't killed me or caused any problems yet!

I pay 15 cents for filtered water per gallon. It takes a tank full per night if I used the heated option, too expensive at 88 cents.
It's already almost perfect from vending machine.

palerider wrote:

gravyv wrote:The pamphlet I got from my respiratory tech says to use water that has been boiled for 10 minutes if I don't have access to distilled water.

that just makes the mineral concentration worse.

that's bad advice.

If you do want to boil your water, turn the heat down once it starts to boil and let it boil gently. If you don't boil off a large percentage of the water, you won't increase the mineral concentration very much.

Boiling will kill most of the germs, but if your drinking/bathing water has a lot of dangerous germs in it, you're in trouble already.