Carbon Filter for Water: Installation Instructions

A person needs water for life and be sure to clean. To always get high-quality drinking water, not enough of one boiling. The best solution is to install cleansing devices for water. Popular filters, high-quality water-cleaning and well water, are coal filters for water purification.

Why coal filter? From a long time, people tried to clean the water from small impurities, garbage and alive in different ways. The most effective was the method of purification of water with wood coal. Modern installations work according to the same principle, only inside the flasks are not pieces of wood coal, but the crushed activated carbon.

How water is cleared

Pressed coal is in the filter, along with chopped coal and other materials. Due to the fact that in the coal filter there is enough pores, the device gently and effectively purifies the incoming water from contaminants. If you read more in more detail the principle of water purification with a coal filter, it becomes clear that the cleansing device is equipped with large and small pores. The first are able to delay large particles, and the second - do not give the smallest molecules through the filter.

To make sure the filter is effective, pay attention to the iodine index and hardness of the substance. If hardness is not enough, then the smallest coal particles will be seeded into the water and fall with clean water into our body.

The main task of filters is to clean the water from impurities, remove dirt, fight rust (along with water falls into tanks), and clean the water from foreign odors, remove the unpleasant flavor. And this is not all, because the coal filter is able to delay the living microorganisms.

Unfortunately, filters cannot completely clean water from pathogenic bacteria, remove radioactivity, salts and reduce the concentration of metal ions. For these purposes, it is necessary to use additional stations and fixtures.

Scope of application of cleansing filters

A coal filter for water is used in everyday life, less often in industry due to large volumes of water consumed.

Common release form - in cartridges. This is a small multi-layer block, in which there are several layers of mesh material (different density) and activated carbon. The grid delays large trash and rust particles. Such filters are suitable for home use. In industry it is impractical to install filters due to low efficiency. For large enterprises, magnetic or electromagnetic filters with a reliable metal case are used. Such devices are installed in drainage systems.

Timely replacement filter

Not all consumers understand what the cleansing filters must be changed. If we consider a separately flowing carbon filter for water, then you can conclude that in a few months (it depends on the amount of water consumed) the cartridge will be replaced with a new one. As soon as the water passes through the coal filter, it is cleaned. On the grid inside the cleansing device, small particles and other contaminants are accumulated. As a result, if you do not change the filter for a long time, then these deposits will gradually be seen into the water. And finally, most importantly, when there are no deposits and there is no place for them, they break through the filter and fall into the reservoir for purified water. The quality of such a fluid remains in doubt, water will be even more contaminated than the water supply. Therefore, it is so important to change the cartridge in a timely manner.

On average, the service life of the coal filter is 2-3 months, but each cleansing device may have its own operating time. Therefore, if you buy a filter in the store, get the seller's advice. Water quality and the amount of consumption affect the timing of coal filters. The only thing that can be advised is to change the filter in a timely manner or with a little delay in a few days.

To become clear, we give such an example: you purchased a coal filter with a resin and silver in the store. It is designed for 450 liters of water (maximum), and this is approximately 1.5-2 months of use. After 2 months, the filter cartridge must be replaced.

Installation of coal filter

Install the coal filter can be independently if you read these recommendations:

1. You bought a compact filter in the form of a jug. How to insert a filter correctly, you can learn from the instruction. Look at this image. You see how the filter is arranged. First you need to free the cartridge from the packaging. Then lift the receiving compartment or funnel and screw the cleansing device into it. Then you need to insert a receiving funnel along with the cartridge in the second compartment. All, you can check how the filter works. In order to get purified water, you need to skip the water through the filter several times. During this time, the filter will pass the degree of purification. Pour water from under the tank in the tank and close the lid. Wait until the water takes the filtration. It is possible to pour clean water through the hole (in the figure indicated by the number 5). Repeat actions several times, after which you can drink water. Make sure that the cassette is constantly in water.

2. If everything is clear with the installation of a simple cleansing filter, then put a carbon filter on the crane will be slightly complicated. You bought a filter to be planted for a plumbing crane. It is necessary to immediately decide what carving at the crane: internal or external. If usual, it facilitates the task. Included together with the filter there is a spare cartridge. You need to assemble the filter and fasten it to the crane.
3. Cutting filter on the sink. This is a single-stage carbon filter that needs not only to collect correctly, but also connect. To get clean water, you need to install the filter itself next to the sink and connect it to the mixer using an adapter (this is a sivertor). It will constantly be connected to the filter and is ready for work at any time of the day. The adapter switches the water in 2 directions: water merges into the sink or passes through the filter (passing through a separate hose) and enters the receiving tank. If you purchased a model without a satellor, then you will have to constantly connect the nozzle to the nozzle when you need to filter the water. If you have an old mixer installed, it is enough to just put on the tube on the crane and fix the rubberized washer. If you have a modern filter, then an additional adapter may be needed.

Filter device:

Connection diagram:

4. Installing the main coal filter for water under the sink. Install the stationary filter is needed under the sink and remove a separate crane on the sink to exit purified water. Coal filters can be 2, 3 and 4-speed. Pay attention to this scheme to understand the principle of devices and the operation of the coal filter.

Now let's stay in more detail and perform the filter installation together:

1. First you need to prepare everything you need, discuss with all family members in which place is better to put the filter and try it in a niche under the sink: it is well placed there and whether the cartridges can be replaced there. If everything is in order, you can start training.
2. You will need a tape to sew the joints and tools.
3. Note a place for a new crane and calculate the length of the hose for drinking water.
4. Attention! It is important to overlap water before starting work.
5. Do not confuse: Crane, overlapping water, you need to put in front of the filter!
6. Install the crane for clean water and swipe the filter hoses.
7. Now you can overlap water and drain the remnants. The hoses are disconnected and attach to the fastening of the pipe to the plumbing adapter.
8. The hose (reinforced) can be put in its place.
9. Install overlapping faucet.
10. After that, you can do the filter assembly if you bought it in a disassembled form. In the set of delivery there is everything you need. Check out the presence of plugs and stoppers, you can remove them.
11. Inside the main case there are filters, you need to connect with a hose Crane and a filter with an adapter. At the exit, connect the crane for clean water.
12. On this all, you can check the operation of the filter. To do this, open the water and immediately look attentively if the leaks appeared at the place of connection of the hoses with the adapter, as well as at the output and input, you need to turn everything again (you can climb the ribbon) and check the seals.
13. Open the faucet for purified water and wait. The system will be filled approximately 5 minutes. No need to scare if the water goes muddy. The system is washed and in a couple of minutes, when air will come out of it, clean water flows.

Competent operation of coal filters

To extend the service life of the filter, you need to follow these rules:

• the water pressure in the system should not exceed 8 atmospheres;
• if you connect a filter through a hot water system, then you can not drink such water. The filter will quickly fail;
• it is prohibited to install cleansing devices near the heating devices;
• the distance between the filter and the water heater - from 2 m;
• regularly check the drain hole so that the contaminated fluid go out and did not come back into clean water;
• if the tap water is often subjected to chlorine processing, the coal filter may neutralize it;
• if water comes from deep sources (well), the coal filter is not able to cope with the purification of such water.

How to make a carbon filter for water with your own hands

For a family of several people, you can make a filter yourself, and without significant costs. For the construction of a vessel cleaning vessel, it is possible to use sweater tools, such as a bottle.

So, we need to work:

• plastic bottle of 5 l;
• bucket (from plastic with a lid) or glass jar;
• napkins;
• fabric "Loutrasil";
• cotton;
• charcoal;
• fire or sandpaper;
• electrodel with thin drills;
• a sharp knife.

Construct the filter yourself:

1. We unscrew the cover from the bottle and in the center we conceive the circle marker, it must be the same diameter along the inside with the neck and coincide with the thread.
2. We drill the hole drill (we use a thin drill), and then you can cut down the hole to the sharp knife manually.
3. Sharp edges smoothing the sandpaper or file.
4. I turn over the bottle and cut off the dysheko with a sharp knife.
5. Bottle turn over and insert into the hole. Must work funnel.
6. In it we put fabric, paper napkins and cotton folded into several layers, and then pour charcoal and put the layer of filtration material again.
7. Insert a bottle into a bucket or a glass bottle and fill with water. Water can be taken any, from under the tap, well or from the well.
8. After a few minutes, when water passes through a homemade filter, the bucket will be filled. The first strait should be merged, so we can clean the carbon filter. You yourself want to do this, as you will see that the water from the filter comes out muddy. Fill the new water again and wait, it will already be clean and useful.

Charcoal can be bought in the store or do it yourself. To do this, you will need birch lamps. It is impossible to use pine, as it contains resin. Put firewood in a metal container and burn. Wait until the firewood will run out, black coals will remain - this is charcoal. It is necessary to wait when it will cool, grind and use for its intended purpose.