Question:
I want to put a whole house water filter in. The local water is fine except for the chlorine in it. I want to get rid of the smell/taste for drinking water and the showers, and maybe filter out the occasional sediment that clogs up shower heads. The only one I've seen is the GE whole house water filter at Lowe's and Home Depot. I don't even know where to look for other alternatives. Any suggestions?

Answer: Visit your Sears store in the hardware dept. They sell whole house water filter housings along either 'taste/odor' or 'sediment' cartridges. If you are getting both sediment and chlorine, you may need the two cartridge unit they sell. Put the sediment filter first in line.

My 30' dug well had a single OMNI whole house filter unit online that always has a activated charcoal taste/odor cartidge in it.

I've used culligan, omni, and ace-hardware and GE charcoal cart's with equal {satisfactory) results. Actually the ACE hardwares didnt last too long IIRC.. Recently I picked up a second ONMI unit and put it inline with the 1st one. In that one I put the 5 micron spun-polypropylene sediment_only filter. So I have WELL---->OMNI/POLY---->ONMI/CHARC---->Pump.

I was swapping the activated charcoal filter monthly, but with the inline pair I now last more than 3 months between changes.

Ive found that buying GE filter two-packs saves about $2 over the others. As far as the filter housings are concerned,, OMNI made-em 1st and waterpic , sears, and culligan are identical. Priceshop. If you go the 2 filter route, install valves on both sides of the pair, and dont bother with the filter units with integrated on/off valves. Save a few more bucks that way. the whole thing

NOTE: There are under-sink cart's that look identical to the whole house carts.. observe the GPM and lifespan (3000 gals -vs- 800gals) when buying cartridges or you'll wind up with trickle-flow showers..