Gold water distiller

I needed to use distilled water for my humidifiers in the winter, but constantly buying jugs of distilled water was not really an option. I searched around and decided to purchase this distiller. It was definitely worth the money! I used it all winter, distilling roughly a gallon or two a day, and it worked great. It does take a while, but that was not a problem for me. The sound of the fan was not a problem. It's not much different than the sound of a regular floor fan. It does let off a little bit of warm air. Because I really only need it in winter, that's not an issue for me. However, just be aware that it may warm up the room a bit. I had no leakage, and it was easy to keep clean if you leave a little bit of water in it and don't distill every drop. For this, I followed someone else's recommendation of using an Amazon outlet to turn it off before all of the water was distilled. I just wiped it down after every use and only had to de-scale one time at the end of winter.

I recently lost my job and also recently started using a C-Pap. I convinced my wife, who also has a C-Pap, that we should distill our own water. Larger up-front fee, but in the long run, much cheaper. So glad we went this way. I'm recycling the original distilled water bottles now. Even using it for my coffee and cooking water.Helpful hint: Get a countdown timer switch to shut the machine off while there's a small amount of water left. I picked up one of these: https://a.co/d/cVnK5tZ and set it to a 3:30 timer. Then when I refill, I just hit the confim button on the switch and the process starts again. Now I don't have to make sure I'm home to stop it in time.I haven't had any leakage issues, it's built great, and the fan isn't as loud as many people have stated. Yeah, it takes a bit to get used to, but every desk/floor fan makes noise, this is quieter than most.

We have well water that stains everything orange, tastes horrible, and stinks. Since we started distilling our water with this device we haven’t bought a bottle of water. We were going through like 8 gallons of distilled water jugs a week before buying this. It paid for itself in like 8 weeks. Not to mention it helped reduce our waste. It’s really easy to use even though it feels intimidating at first. All you have to do is put it together per the instructions, fill the tank up to the full line, put the top on, plug it in, set up the glass container with the piece that keeps the water from spilling out of the spout and turn it on. When you’re done, turn it off or let it shut off on its own (I usually shut it off a little before it’s done so the sediment doesn’t get caked to the tank), let it cool for 20 min bc it’s super hot inside, and then you pour in some regular citric acid and let it soak for 15 min and use that water to wipe down the sides and rinse. But you don’t have to wait for the tank to cool before using the water since they are separate components. My only wishes is that you could refill it right away instead of waiting for it to cool so you can get more water faster, I wish it had a timer so you could know when it’s close to being done, and I wish the tank was larger. If you hate the taste of your water this is a must buy.

I bought this so I wouldn’t have to buy, lug, and store gallons upon gallons of distilled water in my apartment to run the humidifier I use to keep my guitar from drying out and cracking in thecwinter air. This distiller works like a charm, so 4 stars. 1 star off because I do have a list of complaints:- I have very hard city water. The amount of junk left over in the metal tub after a cycle is shocking. It bakes on (stinks!) and is impossible to wipe off. Better than spewing it all into the air via humidifier though.- The cleaning process is both easier and harder than it looks. It ships with a bottle of citric acid crystals. Go ahead and order yourself a bulk 2 pound bag or two of those things, you’ll need them. Throw 3 or 4 tablespoons of crystals into a fully filled distiller tub, and run a cycle with the top off. The scale will disappear in about 30-40 minutes, no muss no fuss. I like to poke at the scale now and again with a spatula while this is going on, but I’m a neurotic overachiever. It is NOT clear or easy how (or whether?) to clean the top part with the coils and fan. Do these need to be unscrewed, taken apart, cleaned, reassembled? Who knows??- This thing uses a lot of electricity and puts out a lot of heat. I ran it about 15 times and my power bill jumped $9 for the month (from $50 to $59, so it was noticeable). That could be because winter and price increase, or distiller use. Can’t tell yet. It does release a LOT of heat. I run it in my bathroom and it makes the room into a sauna. Great for winter! Toasty tile floor! That’s not great energy efficiency though.- It’s loud! I run it in the bathroom so I can close the door. If I ran it in my apt kitchen I would not be able to hear anything else, it’s about as loud as the over-stove fan set on low.- If you have long hair and run this thing on the floor, FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULU hold your hair back when you turn this thing on. The fan on top WANTS to grab your hair. You will cry.Over all, this thing does the job and even with my list of complaints and increase in electricity bill, it’s nice having distilled water on demand instead of having to go to the store and put more plastic jugs in the recycle bin where they probably won’t be recycled anyway. And even with that $9 jump in power bill, for at least 15 gallons worth of water it’s half the price of store bought.

We live on a farm and our well water is very very hard. This removes lots of the gypsum so we can use it in my husbands cpap and our humidifier. We would use it in our coffee maker if we drank coffee. We drink it as well. When the cycle is over, there is a lot of crud in the bottom that it has removed from the water. Easy to clean. Highly recommend ordering more of the cleaner to remove all the “hard water” junk once a month or more frequently if needed.