IMO if you want to remove chlorine on a whole hose basis, you shouldn't because it is in the water for a couple very good reasons. Remove it as POU, where your use the water instead of POE where the water enters the house,
Most any house with more than one regular bathroom will want more water than 4 gpm.
So what are the "couple very good reasons"? just curious. I know there are different shcools of thought on chlorine removal, but I want to hear every side before I make a decision.
I know one of them is to eliminate waterborne disease, but I just figured that would not be a problem if it was removed at POE as the water doesn't have far to go after the chlorine is removed. Is that short distance in your house enough to pose a problem with manifesting waterborne diseases?
The two reasons I WANT to remove the cholrine are:
1. Complaints from the family of the odor and taste. I do not know exactly how much chlorine is in our city water, but it's enough for us to not want to drink the water without going through a carbon filter. I would just put in a RO in the kitchen, but even brushing teeth is a nuisance in the bathrooms with the extra chlorine.
2. I have heard from many different sources that chlorine will shorten the resin life and in general it is best to remove the chlorine before it enters the water softener as chlorine just tears them up quicker.
So even with a water softener AFTER the slower carbon filter, I will still only get 4gpm at each faucet in the house? In my mind it seems like it would still fucntion the same in the house until the water softener is emptied out of water, then the flow would be slowed down to 4gpm because it is depending on the filter and maybe cause bleeding of the hard water if the softener can't keep up.
I'm still learning all of this so please let me know if I'm correct or way off base.
Thanks!