Green or not green?

I have to profess to not having the slightest idea? I use a lot now for filling the kettle to stop it limescaling up but with the cartridges only lasting 4 to 8 weeks are the seriously unenvironmentally friendly?

no once i have used em i smash em open empty the activated charcoal sand and owt else they bung in em on the garden then bung the plastic bit on the fire well thats just me

ooooh lawd sumfink else to worry about I use them cos I don't buy bottles anymore cos plastic bottles of mostly imported water are seriously ungreen I thought.... But our tap water is very off-putting without being filtered, it's opaque most of the time and last week it was muddy brown for hours

We use them too. Our water tastes foul, don't want to buy bottled water.

I bought one cos our water is like chalk and dead hard. My husband melted the whole thing by leaving it next to the cooker. Bonehead So tap water for us since

I've never thought about this one but then I wouldn't coz I'm a tap water gal

I've not thought about it either, but what I would say Icy is don't worry too much about it, there's loads more other things that need sorting first

Must admit I buy bottled water cos what comes out of the tap is always a bit murky looking We do boil tap water in the kettle and it is full of limescale - was wondering whether to buy a filter for that Will be keeping an eye on this thread for other's opinions

All you peeps need to move up to scotland........... best water in the uk..
straight from the tap anorl

Ours wasn't bad neither - straight out of Keilder

keilder is just the back up for us, ours is from Cow Green and the only contaminants it gets is sheep poo cos there is nothing else up there

You can get a thingmy that you put on the inny water pipe. That's what we have. Still get kettle chalk but not a lot.

You getting all technical on us there Baggy

Thought you'd approve
(by the way I found your seeds today )

I drink it straight from t'tap. No poncing about with it here. Tis dead 'ard but it is from Lincoln and just think, all that calcium in the water must do something to reduce the chances of getting osteoporosis/arthritis

Me Dad only ever lost one tooth to decay in 80 years, and he didn't know what a toothbrush was for . He always put the fact that his teeth were really healthy down to growing up in Scunny where the water is dead hard

My niece has recently moved to Lincs and she's noticed the water is harder there than home which we thought was dead ard

Bet ours harder than yours

no ones is more 'ard than Scunny

mine is yer have to fight it when yer turn tap on to fill kettle

but does it carry a crow bar as compulsary

Mines so 'ard it still fights its way through a turned off tap

I'll call the lot of you.

When we moved into our house, the upstairs loo had a cm of limescale deposited in the pan. It was *disgusting* and I still can't believe the previous owners had let it get to that state.

I tried limescale cleaners; might as well have waved a pot plant at it.

Resorted to a chisel and a hammer. I still don't know what it's like up the u-bend... and I don't want to!

moonbells

ps we don't use a filter. Tap's fine for me!

Apparently Brita filters can be returned to the manufacturer for recycling

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