Home drinking water preferences?

[Kim]

Filtering perfectly good tap water always struck me as a tragically middle-class affectation, and triumph of marketing over common sense.  I can understand drinking bottled water if your local tap water tastes horrid, but it really is rather wasteful.

Never saw the point in carbonating anything.  Given the choice between drinks that cause pain and drinks that don't cause pain, wanting the former is masochism.

Home filtering water because it tastes nasty is not nearly as wasteful as drinking bottled water instead. It's hardly a middle-class affectation when considering sensory issues.

No, that's fair enough.  I didn't consider that option because in my (admittedly limited) experience, I didn't realise it actually worked.  The one time I tasted Manchester Ming™ that had been through a filter, it was basically the same.

[ravenbait]

Filters really struggle in Lincolnshire, too. The water at Mr Bait's mum's house is the most foul and disgusting chewy stuff, and I resort to bottled water there because it's that or gag.

Up here we have great water, it's just that the chloramine is a bit too much like having one of those giant hair clips clamped round my tongue.

Sam

[Kim]

I can't remember if it changes the taste of Canterbury Carbonate™ much.  But TBH, I never minded the taste, it's just the way that you get tea/coffee with lumps in, cleaning the bathroom is full-on chemical warfare and heating elements have a half-life of about 12 months.