The Rise of Tankless Reverse Osmosis Systems: Benefits and Considerations

If you are still trying to decide what type of water filtration system is right for you, but you’re gravitating towards reverse osmosis (RO), you will come across a major decision you have to make: do you want a conventional reverse osmosis system, or would a tankless version be better?

This is not a major complication: either would do a great job, but one or the other would be better in your situation, so here are the points to consider.

What Filtration Efficiency Do You Need?

This depends on two things that can seem to fight each other: how big your household is, i.e., how many people use water, and how big the house is. If you have a fairly big family, there are a lot of baths and showers going on, plus more water being used in cooking and washing up, you need a plentiful supply of purified water which has already been through the reverse osmosis system and is ready to use. A conventional RO system has a tank to store the water that has been processed.

How Much Space Do You Have?

Tanks take up space, and how much of that do you have? This is not a question of right and wrong, just practicality and suitability. If you use a lot of water and you have some spare space in a convenient location, you could be checking the conventional box. With lower demand and/or less space, you may lean towards the tankless option.

The Installation Factor

This goes hand in hand with the space issue. A conventional RO system with a tank will require more work in the installation process, which in turn means higher labor costs. If you’re doing this on a budget, you’re making a good decision in general, but you may want to consider the initial cost, which is lower with a tankless system.

Maintenance Matters

Filters need to be changed regularly to keep the system operating well. After all, why bother to filter your water if you’re going to allow the system to deteriorate? If there is a storage tank involved, this will have to be cleaned from time to time to make sure there are no undesirables developing while the water sits there. The point here is that water that just sits there is stagnating, which is no good. Water is a lively thing, and if it is allowed to stagnate, things get in it: bacteria, airborne material, and microscopic organisms. You’ve got to keep it fit and healthy, just as we all have to pay attention to our health and fitness. Sitting around all day doing nothing is asking for trouble.

In many ways, the tankless system is the modern way. Wells and cisterns are symbols of the past, when people were less informed about potential dangers and science wasn’t so advanced anyway. Today, we know a lot more and are more in control of our destiny in many respects.

How to Make Your Decision: Conventional Reverse Osmosis or Tankless?

If you feel this is all getting too complicated and you don’t really know what to do, consult an expert. Find yourself a good, reputable water purity company and get them to test your water, because you need to know exactly what the local H2O is like in terms of purity and potential hazards anyway. Then you can run the whole issue by them, looking at all the facts discussed above, and see what their experience tells them is best in your case.

You have decided on reverse osmosis – an excellent choice, by the way – so just get some specific local advice on conventional vs tankless and you can get your optimum system installed.