Water Filter System (UPDATE)
Hi Y'all, I'm looking into water filter system Like Reveres Osmosis (RO) but they are expensive. So I lowered my sights to a cartridge system. My question is "How long will the filter cartridge...
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I built a system using 2 GE whole house filters and a 2 gallon pressure tank. One filter is wound fabric sediment type and the other iirc is more carbon based type. We snowbird so I had planned on one time a year which would be 6 months but it depends on what type of water we run into and much of it is well water.
Well water brings up a whole different issue that I ran into last year. To keep this short I will just say that my tank had some water in it when we stored it while staying with my son. You cant drain it 100 %. I put more water in it and flushed the lines and started to drain it again and there were little globs of black stuff on the cement as it drained. I removed the bottom cover panel and with a flashlight could see a black/dart witness mark in the tank. I pulled the tank and realized that it looked like mold or slimey black globs. Not a huge amount but any at all is no good. I put about 10 pounds of misc nuts and bolts in the tank with bleach water and tipped and turned it over and over to scrub the inside . What a huge pita but I got it spotless clean.
Before that I figured we were putting so much water through it that it was fine but this year I'm making more frequent stops at camp grounds after I heavily bleach the tank and agitate it while driving. That is one of the problems of leaving home or being at one place, traveling all over exposes us to unknown water quality and where and when were we exposed. I'm going to be much more careful about it now. In fact, you can call me the bleach guy. :) We had been running all our drinking water through a Berkey traveler too.
The valving allows me to use the winterizing port to suck water out of a 5 gallon jug on the ground when my neck and back were messed up. I prefer not to use it as I bleached the hose and everything before sticking it in the water jug.
Well water brings up a whole different issue that I ran into last year. To keep this short I will just say that my tank had some water in it when we stored it while staying with my son. You cant drain it 100 %. I put more water in it and flushed the lines and started to drain it again and there were little globs of black stuff on the cement as it drained. I removed the bottom cover panel and with a flashlight could see a black/dart witness mark in the tank. I pulled the tank and realized that it looked like mold or slimey black globs. Not a huge amount but any at all is no good. I put about 10 pounds of misc nuts and bolts in the tank with bleach water and tipped and turned it over and over to scrub the inside . What a huge pita but I got it spotless clean.
Before that I figured we were putting so much water through it that it was fine but this year I'm making more frequent stops at camp grounds after I heavily bleach the tank and agitate it while driving. That is one of the problems of leaving home or being at one place, traveling all over exposes us to unknown water quality and where and when were we exposed. I'm going to be much more careful about it now. In fact, you can call me the bleach guy. :) We had been running all our drinking water through a Berkey traveler too.
The valving allows me to use the winterizing port to suck water out of a 5 gallon jug on the ground when my neck and back were messed up. I prefer not to use it as I bleached the hose and everything before sticking it in the water jug.
