A home made big berkey | General Homesteading Discussion | Forums

We have made bucket berkeys before with 2 of the 5 gal. buckets. We used 4 filters in it. We used it for quite awhile until the bucket valve wore out and then I put the filters into the smaller 2 gallon stainless Doulton made for them. We intended to put a new valve on the bucket setup but it never got done. I've used my filter continuously for 15 yrs now? I don't trust the black filters due to their high failure rates in the past, so I use the ceramics only and they only fail if you drop one! I have scrubbed the heck out of them to clean off the silt from the cisterns, put them right back and good as new! We rely on them for all our potable water here, and at our first farm too....