water filters

TechWriter wrote:

down home wrote:
You can still put a prefilter of 25 micron or smaller in a big ten inch canister filter housing such as sold t Home Depot or Lowes.

Some of your micron numbers are goofy. For example, you could drive a car through a 25 micron filter.

I suggest a 5 micron sediment filter as your first line of defense as this size filter can be washed off. Smaller sizes, like 1 micron, should not be washed.

Also, Home Depot and Lowes would not be my first choice for water filtration supplies. Try one of these: www.h2odistributors.com, www.freshwatersystems.com, and www.filtersfast.com.

I used the one from Lowes, essentially the same sans monitor for our well.They were close to home. It was carbon block and silver and a membrane on the outside. Don't know what they ahave now, that was 6 years ago.
The list on it says it gets rid of most things and sediments. Only a bit of sediment but it cleared it up and the calcium in suspension that adhears to the surface of any filter may gather some of the dissolved lime.
I've ended up with several filters in the bay for future use.
The blue one sold by CW which is very expensive 39.00 for the housing designed for it is 10 inch and may work in other housings but I've had it load up a little too quickly sometimes depending on water source.
I think it is 5 or either .5 micron and the list that it removes from water includes most nasties.
So the first housing if i decide I need a prefilter may only be one to catch sediment and let the main filter deal with any nasties.
in South Ga and La I had a good prefilter carbon block, I think. 5 micron and a ceramic primar both stop up from sediment sulfur iron magnesium. The ceramic looked brown and black and I could not clean it up. It really doe not have enough capacity.
The primary filled up and bypassed the stuff to the main filter.
The big ten inch housing will take the big 10 filter from Home Depot or Lowes or somewhere else that the best they had in stock was 25 micron with silver. It got all the chlorine sediment and lead, iron and so on.
I have some .9 micron and .5 micron and without a prefilter they can stop up pretty fast if there is anything in the water at all.
It all depends if you wash clothes and shower and so on every day and how good or bad the water is.
At a campground in Michigan I quizzed a neighbor about not using a filter. He said they only washed clothes in it and bathed. their laundry was lovely shade of yellow brown.
Those small straight blue filters. I used several of them.
When the campground is full there i lots of sediment in the water. It fills up the little filter and then every time you turn on the tap again it flushed sediment on through and the dirty water just keeps coming. I rigged on in front of big filter with clear canister and next morning after showering and laundry the day before and that morning that clear canister was a quarter full of dirt.