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This article is primarily about water purification. I knew nothing about it, and I have gone through the process of finding and installing a good water filtration system from a reliable company which is trusted. I did not want to pay a “water company” the typical $3–4k for an RO system, which could be a scam. I wanted regular plumbers to be able to install an RO filter from a brand they were familiar with as a reliable one.
Some Background
Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to design their house. Even without an Architect, you can customize your house to make it work better for you, even by making some choices which your builder may not know.
When we were searching for a house in the right school district, we simply could not find one which was “structurally sound” on “flat” ground (I am cursed to think like this because of the Civil Engineers in my family).
In the end, we were forced to buy a “new” house (not yet built), because it was the only house available in our market (even currently, it is amazingly hard to find any house in this area). It is not too expensive — not anywhere near the $700–800k it costs to buy a house in the SFO Bay Area.
We made a lot of choices, looking back, we could have made even better if only…
