Questions; What is the best filter to remove fluoride/chlorine/ heavy metals etc. How effective is a Sawyer filter? Is there a filter that does it all in one go? Can I make one? Someone on here will know way more than me. Thanks in advance. Dale x
Water filtration. Fluoride
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This post is in the homestead, so if you mean for domestic use, gravity filters are a good bet with ceramic cartridges which prevent the passage of living nasties filled with activated charcoal to remove dissolved nasties. Stainless countertop gravity filters are around the £150-£200 mark from various manufacturers ready to go.
I'm financially poor but time and tool rich so made my own with two large stainless steel stockpots from car boots, one on top of the other. One of these these in the base of the top pot, and tap installed on the bottom pot. Battery drill, carbide drill bit and cobalt holesaw were all that was required.
I also modified the cartridges once the activated charcoal was time expired by carefully cutting off the plastic base and making a clamping arrangement and food grade Viton seal so they can dismantled indefinitely. Every 6 months I can now scrub the ceramic and refill with activated charcol bought in bulk. Faff? A little, but running costs for filtered water are now under £1/year and I could use the arrangement to drink ditchwater come the apocalypse....
I'm financially poor but time and tool rich so made my own with two large stainless steel stockpots from car boots, one on top of the other. One of these these in the base of the top pot, and tap installed on the bottom pot. Battery drill, carbide drill bit and cobalt holesaw were all that was required.
I also modified the cartridges once the activated charcoal was time expired by carefully cutting off the plastic base and making a clamping arrangement and food grade Viton seal so they can dismantled indefinitely. Every 6 months I can now scrub the ceramic and refill with activated charcol bought in bulk. Faff? A little, but running costs for filtered water are now under £1/year and I could use the arrangement to drink ditchwater come the apocalypse....
Thank you. Have you got any pictures please so I can visual study the info you just gave me. Thanks. x
I don't have an account on any image posting sites, so here's a commercial version.
A homemade version is two containers of your choice with a tap in the lower container and a hole drilled in the upper container for the filter cartridge to drip through. Nothing more.
A homemade version is two containers of your choice with a tap in the lower container and a hole drilled in the upper container for the filter cartridge to drip through. Nothing more.
Nah. I only use spring or rain water but I would like to learn as much as I can about everything as you never know x
A Good plan.
Best study local mineralogy and any mining records.
Cornish water is full of gack. Some of the streams are red with an oil topping.
This is a century after the mines closed.
They call them `Red rivers`.
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There is a pub near Hayle called The Bucket of Blood.
The story goes there was a gruesome murder, the remains were hid in the well, and when the maid let down the bucket first thing in the morning, well.
But I am wondering if miners got through into the well and it was contaminated.
Best study local mineralogy and any mining records.
Cornish water is full of gack. Some of the streams are red with an oil topping.
This is a century after the mines closed.
They call them `Red rivers`.
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There is a pub near Hayle called The Bucket of Blood.
The story goes there was a gruesome murder, the remains were hid in the well, and when the maid let down the bucket first thing in the morning, well.
But I am wondering if miners got through into the well and it was contaminated.
Water companies are obliged to provide details of treatments which go into your tap water if asked. I'm lucky here, mains water (my only mains service, which feeds a single tap over a Belfast sink, with a lead pipe leading to the ditch for drainage) is from a local borehole treated only with chlorine, which my gravity filters removes. Or I could boil it off. Or leave out for 24 hours to evaporate out.
