Homemade Water filter??

hansass

hansass

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Hello my dear rollitups. Someone know some method for clean the house water?

I think the osmosis filter have a cilinder with activated charcoal.

Someone try this in a plastic bottle ?

Thanks for all my dears!!
 
Banana444

Banana444

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The osmosis filter is not a charcoal filter, it is a type of memebrane, that allow water thru but hold onto everything else. My ro system has two carbon filters besides the ro filter, some systems have more and bigger filters. You could make a homemade filter out of just carbon and it would filter the water. Im sure there are diy ideas all over the web for homemade filters, i dont think one the size a water bottle would have much filtering capacity.
 
jijiandfarmgang

jijiandfarmgang

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Banana444 said:
You could make a homemade filter out of just carbon and it would filter the water. Im sure there are diy ideas all over the web for homemade filters, i dont think one the size a water bottle would have much filtering capacity.
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What'd you'd be making is called a camper/rv filter.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Camco-Water-Filter-with-Hose/14504321

I suppose its good if you have a known healthy water source thats potable, and you want to have a neutral taste when you drink it.

For anything else, its a lost cause.

- Jiji
 
NVGrower

NVGrower

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Bought one of those RO Britta systems for under the sink. Make sure you get one that produces a lot of water a day. Took all day to get 6 gallons. Beautiful water though with 0 dissolved solids and we live in Nevada!
 
dbkick

dbkick

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NVGrower said:
Bought one of those RO Britta systems for under the sink. Make sure you get one that produces a lot of water a day. Took all day to get 6 gallons. Beautiful water though with 0 dissolved solids and we live in Nevada!
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The waste is insane to achieve 0 ppm. I don't see the point of ro unless your water is really bad.
 
dbkick

dbkick

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As for OP, look at a hydrologic small boy or tall boy, you won't be filtering to 0 ppm but you'll be removing sediment and chlorine.
I just don't see RO being worth the waste in water.
 
Dumme

Dumme

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It might not be what you were intendin on, but I built a DIY moving bio filter; currently waiting for it to finish cycling.
 
NVGrower

NVGrower

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Banana444 said:
My ro system was also under 200$ w replacement filters costing 90$ for 5 months usage...damn i thought mine was slow at 35g a day but it does the job
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I'm using DWC.
They say filters should last a year on the Britta, it's got a a small 14gallon tank under the counter. I just have to change resivours seperately over three days. Around the end of the week since the water is changed I put 1oz of hydrogen peroxide and then give them another 4 days and then 1 oz of hydrogen peroxide and then give them around 4 more days.
 
kmog33

kmog33

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I do dwc and use straight tap water with great results. Our water is fairly decent in la. But comes out around 6.7-7.1 ph and 150ppm. If you just want to remove choramines and basic metals you're better off buying a water conditioner for fish tanks. It's much cheaper than using a standard Brita carbon filter.


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