Do any of you have bottled water delivered to your home? Dispensers?

I am looking into Sparkletts. We would have a dispenser that has cold and room temp spigots and five gallon bottles with purified, floridated water. We would use it to drink and cook with (and coffee, stuff like that).

I went to the Sparkletts web site and there's a good introductory offer, but you rent the dispenser ($11 per month) and it looks like it's about $40 a month for the dispenser rental, and three or four five gallon jugs per month (can't remember three or four). $20 of that is a deposit fee.

www.sparkletts.com

I can't find any information for how much it is exactly per month, though. And the description about that $20 deposit is confusing. It seems to be for the bottles, so is it partially refunded? Can't find out! :grr:

Does anyone do this? Is it worth it?

It's $0.40/ gallon but you have to bring in your own containers.

If you decide to get delivery I think it's a lot cheaper to buy your own dispenser for the hot/cold ones. They're about $100 at Costco.

but I finally decided it's not worth the money and bought a Pur filter for the faucet. Clean water, and way cheap. If I need it *cold*, I keep 6 or so "recycled" bottled water bottles in the fridge. Cost me a whole $15 or so and after 2 years of more or less constant use, I'm still on the original filter. Looking at the indicator, it's still got from 6 months to another year left, and then the replacement filter is all of $5 or so.

If you need a larger volume, explore an inline filter mounted under the sink. I'd bet if you do the math, it's way cheaper than delivery. We used to have bottled water delivered to work, and management decided it would be cheaper in the long run to buy case lots of bottled water and stick in in the break room fridge.

On edit: spelling (or some of it anyway)

The deposit is a one-time only fee. You will pay this once for the 3-4 bottles you get delivered this month. As long as you put out 3-4 empty ones for refill next month, that same 20 bucks covers the new ones as well. And so on and so forth.

I'm guessing they're charging about 5-6 dollars a bottle for deposit, that sounds about right. As long as you don't get more than the 3-4 delivered each time, you won't pay extra. If you bump up your usage, which happened to me each summer, they'll add an additional deposit for each extra bottle. But still, they only charge that fee once.

I hope this helps.

That cost around $600 a year.

Bought a Brita water cooler recently, which will pay for itself in about 6 months. You just fill the jug with tap water and the cooler; filters, cools/heats it. I drink a lot of water and I figure the cost of replacement filters to be less than $50 a year. It's less expensive and sweeter knowing you're not using extra resources having water delivered.

http://www.brita.com/products/coolers.shtml

I got the 'Tier 2'. I love it! Ice cold water or instant hot for tea.

Water delivery men are invariably hot.

My previous office had perhaps the only ugly water delivery man on earth; my current office has a filtration/cooling system.

I think I'm just going to look into putting a filter on the tap (but it can't be one that filters out flouride) and using a Britta for cold water in the fridge.