What do you use RO water for, besides brewing?

[Buckeye_Hydro]

And although I try to avoid it, when I have to wash windows, RO water is the way to go. No spots.

 

[Braufessor]

Sourdough bread. Fermenting Veggies. Fermenting Peppers. I keep a tub of 5-10 gallons of star san mixed with RO water on hand for throwing brew stuff in while brewing, tubing, ferementers, cold side stuff, etc.

 

[Indian_villager]

I think the stuff is great for drinking, and it makes clearer ice. Other than that I use it for humidifiers, making star san, making seltzer.

I live in Delaware and I used to be a Chemical Engineer for DuPont, I don't trust the water here.

 

[TimLa]

Our well water is over 4,000 ppm tds. Basically full of dissolved gypsum. It will dissolve granite (takes a while, but the effect is noticeable). Bought the house 5 years ago, replaced the existing softener system with whole house RO, which rocks. the brine/concentrate will kill most vegetation, so it is disposed of in the drainfield, bypassing the septic tank.
What do we use RO for? Everything. There is still a small amount of mineral content - made a Dry Irish Stout that came out near excellent last month.

 

[Buckeye_Hydro]

Our well water is over 4,000 ppm tds. Basically full of dissolved gypsum. It will dissolve granite (takes a while, but the effect is noticeable). Bought the house 5 years ago, replaced the existing softener system with whole house RO, which rocks. the brine/concentrate will kill most vegetation, so it is disposed of in the drainfield, bypassing the septic tank.
What do we use RO for? Everything. There is still a small amount of mineral content - made a Dry Irish Stout that came out near excellent last month.

Hopefully you still have a softener as pretreatment to that RO system. If not, you'll be going through membranes in short order. Unless maybe you're injecting an anti-scalant? That can work too.

 

[TimLa]

Vitek 7000 anti-scalant, and I need a new jug (45 pounds) of it. Fairly spendy, but my membrane is now 5 years old, and puts out RO water with ~ 80 ppm.
That softener was consuming insane amounts of salt.