Lead-free water?

Hi, anyone know of filtration which is guaranteed to remove lead from drinking water?
Concern is house in Rathgar where there is probably lead pipes in supply line. Daughter preggers so hot topic.
Tks
Bib

There should no longer be lead in the pipe supplying the house.
All of Dublin 6 had supposedly undergone replacement back in the 80's.
(I was there, doing building work at the time! )
Suggest contact the Corpo and ask?

The general rule with lead pipes is to flush the mains drinking outlet for several minutes (until the temperature stops dropping plus 5 minutes) first thing in the morning which removes any lead which has had time to dissolve from the supply pipework overnight during times of no or low use. Leads is not considered a problem for washing etc.

A point of use reverse osmosis filter will be effective at removing lead up-to 95% or more and this can be further polished to O lead using resin filter cartridges total approx cost 350-400£ on eBay, but this will also removes beneficial components in the water required for healthy bones, growth, metabolism etc so not an ideal answer for most people.

If you are not sure if there is lead present get a laboratory chemical analysis carried out either the water board lab or independent UKAS water laboratory - use a new clean glass bottle or they may provide one for the test and take a 1 L sample from drinking tap first thing in the morning ask for lead test and tell them it's a drinking water sample.

Irish water

do a search on Irish water website (if you haven't already), lots of information there.
AFAIK they have a program to remove all lead pipes in the distribution system. i.e. up to your door.f

Of course, your daughters children could be having children by the time that happens.

You can buy activated carbon filters from companies like Fileder, www.fileder.co.uk that will remove lead. You would need to enquire as to how efficient they are. A plastic food grade 10" housing plus filter cartridges would not be very expensive, may be ~£100 including 12 catridges but that could be several years out of date.

To be honest, if the worry is only for the nine months or so that your daughter will be pregnant then buy 2 litre supermarket own brand bottled water at around 10p per litre, at least it is in the UK. As lead is a cumulative poison that may not be the most sensible option. Does your water supply company offer a water analysis service? At least you'd then know if you had a problem. If they don't it may cost you something up to £100 to pay for your own analysis by a food standards laboratory, we pay around £150 in the UK for testing whisky samples to check on half a dozen key chemicals that are controlled.

Hope that gives you options and is helpful.

Ooops, too many interuptions, Dane got there first

PPS I believe that if it is found that you have lead pipes they can now line them simply and cheaply by disconnecting the pipe art the supply and rolling in a membrane liner through the pipe work and then reconnecting,. May be something else to enquire about.