Most of the hotels I stay at are well-managed and have maintenance contracts on this stuff...and they conveniently put stickers on the filters showing when it was last changed and when it's due for replacement.Nice tip, provided that they swap out the filter periodically.
For years we had a faucet mounted "Water Pik" filter. One day the knob snapped off. I took the unit apart, and it was a simple twist valve that would be easy to replace.
I wrote the company asking for the replacement part, and I'd buy four filters from them so that it would be worth their while to get a valve and send it to me. Instead, they sent me a whole new package, complete with a filter. And told me that they appreciate my business, and to just buy the filters locally. As a result, I'd never hesitate to recommend a
Water Pik product.
I'm on the road for my job most of the time. My fav. is usually getting ice from the hotel ice machine and letting it melt. All of the hotels I've stayed in have some sort of filter before the ice machine, and the way commercial ice machines form ice tends to cause the impurities to get flushed down the drain.
At my temporary condo, I'm the first customer straight from the water plant so I have a carbon filter and that's it.
Plus, everyone else that gets ice, potentially exposes everyone else to infectious agents. One person with a Noro virus...Having worked at hotel during college... that's gonna be a hard NO.
The filter is there, but I NEVER saw the freezing 'grid' cleaned. Ice machines can be unbelievably nasty.
As can be ice cream/milkshake machines - Poorly cleaned ice cream machines tied to three listeria deaths in ...Ice machines can be unbelievably nasty.
I agree that ice machines can be nasty.. You're not wrong. I've maintained them and at one place I worked, there was only ONE ice machine I'd get my ice from -- the one I maintained...and that wasn't the one the restaurant used.Having worked at hotel during college... that's gonna be a hard NO.
The filter is there, but I NEVER saw the freezing 'grid' cleaned. Ice machines can be unbelievably nasty.