How Do I Know If I Have a Drinking Water Filter?

How do I know if I have a drinking water filter? Hey everyone, Tony the Filter Doctor here. This is our frequently asked questions series, and the question I’ll be answering today is, “How do I know if I have a drinking water filter?” Well, for starters, there are several types of drinking water filters, but here are some really simple ways to verify if you have one. First, let’s start with the obvious. If you have a fist sized object attached to the threads of your regular kitchen faucet; that is almost certainly a faucet mounted filter system. Now, concerning drinking water systems, 75% of the time these have a dedicated drinking water faucet. So, you’ll have your regular kitchen faucet and then off to the side a much smaller, much thinner, drinking water faucet. Get underneath the kitchen sink in the cabinet beneath and follow the water line attached to that drinking water faucet. Follow it all the way to its’ conclusion. If that water line reattaches to the regular water lines, you might have a whole house filter, but you don’t have a drinking water filter for that faucet. But if that water line flows to a filter housing like the ones I’ll show you right now, if it flows to one of those filter housings, then you have a drinking water filter. Often, these will be mounted right there, underneath the kitchen sink, but in some cases the water line will go out of that cabinet because they mounted it in another location to save space under the kitchen sink. Follow the water line to its’ conclusion; if you find one of those housings that I showed you, you have a dedicated drinking water filter. Now, if you own a refrigerator that’s less than ten years old and it has a water dispenser, it is extremely likely that you have an integrated water filter in your fridge. Now, these will never be located in the freezer compartment for obvious reasons, but they can be just about anywhere in the fridge compartment or in the front base grill. So you should refer to your owner’s manual to verify where your fridge filter is located. On older refrigerators or any fridge that does not have an integrated filter, there might be an external filter. Maybe the previous owner installed one. The way to verify this is simply to follow the water line that comes into the back of your refrigerator. And, follow it all the way. You never know where it might be installed. Their often going to install right there, right behind the refrigerator conveniently, but maybe there wasn’t a nice place to put it and so they installed it twenty feet down in a cabinet or somewhere else. So follow that water line to its’ conclusion and then you’ll know if you have an external refrigerator filter that didn’t come with the fridge. So this is how you verify if you have a drinking water filter, and this is our frequently asked question series. I’m your host Tony the Filter Doctor. Thanks for watching.