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22 Feb ’12
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Is anyone here filtering their drinking water?
Our property is on a rainwater system and while the water tests 'safe' it is being collected from our roof which I know is definitely not clean and the water has a muddy taste. At the moment we are using a simple Britta carbon filter jug as we have only been there on weekends but when we are living there full time I think that an under sink system is definitely the way to go.
Are reverse osmosis systems worth the extra cost or are the carbon ones perfectly fine? Any brands I should be looking at (or avoiding)?
15 Feb ’12
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have you thought of a berkey that you can just keep on your counter for drinking water?
is there a flush diverter off your roof?
22 Feb ’12
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No flush diverter as far as I know, though now I've looked them up I shall be installing one shortly.
A Berkey would definitely be an option, it just seems like a hassle to have to fill it as opposed to having something permanently plumbed in?
15 Feb ’12
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from your roof, where does it go to? A in ground cistern? Tanks outside?
22 Feb ’12
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A big concrete tank, which then has a pump to bring the water back into the house.
I probably ought to clean the tank out but it can wait until winter when we actually get rain and I won't feel terrible dumping a couple of thousand liters...
15 Feb ’12
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have you thought of putting a slow sand filter in between the roof and the cistern?
22 Feb ’12
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I'm not sure that would be possible, the inflow for the tank is not far below roof level.
15 Feb ’12
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anywhere it could go after the tank? you can make a pretty small one out of 55 gallon barrel, here are some different designs
http://www.slowsandf.....index.html
a diverter and a slow sand filter would take care of a huge amount of your issues with zero energy, our town was on a slow sand filter forever till the powers that be forced them into a more modern system
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