Ctu Limescale water filters

Water Filtration - It's a question of hardness.

Coffee equipment, as well as coffee itself, can be badly effected by limescale found in hard water areas. If you live in a hard water area it will cause a white fur on your kettle's heating element and can cause scum to appear when making tea. If you live in a hard water area and intend to use a filter coffee machine or hot water boiler then you may choose to filter the water before using it, or in the case of the water boiler if it is plumbed in purchase one of standard water filters to remove the scale. However, if you plan to purchase an espresso machine, then it is really essential that you purchase a CTU water filter which will totally remove limescale from 5,500 litres of water (after this amount you will need to change it, we normally track the water consumption, or you can purchase and additional counter which moniters the amount of water passing through your filter). For a guide to water filtration visit the Drinking Water Inspectorate site. The map below is from the DWI site, and gives a rough guide to hard water in England and Wales,

Source: " A Consumers' Guide to Water Softeners " - copyright British Water

Cuno 2.8 litre CTU water filter cartridge and head - £90 + VAT

Features:-

2.8 litre resin filter
Treats 3800 litres of water at 200ppm
5 micorn carbon block post filter 4lpm flow rate
Input and Output pipework cut to your required length
Fittings for input and output supplied as required along with pipework length, specify your requirement in the special instructions page on checkout
Input options: 3/4" BSP washing machine fitting, Fitting to screw onto a 15mm compression isolater
Output options: 3/4" BSP fitting for most vending/filter machines, 3/8" fitting for connection to most commercial espresso machines
Filter cartridge is disposable, unscrew from the self isolating head and screw in the new filter cartridge
11cm wide, 56cm deep

Traditional types of CTU can be very labour intensive requiring you to get an engineer to replace them, or if you replace them yourself then you have to send back the old ctu for reacharge. These CUNO water filters are simple to replace with a twist lock head and the used cartridge is disposable.