there it goes there it goes it's almost to the top
oh that's perfection i'm going to show you step by step how to create your own diy filtration
system and we're going to see how well it has held up after two and a half years coming up
so my makeshift home brewed inexpensive water filtration system the pump has finally gone out
on it but i think it's time to replace these components anyways they're fairly inexpensive
i think i spent about 135 dollars for the pump the bucket a couple filters got a new bin
pvc primer and cement so i'm going to take this thing apart we'll see how
much crap is in the bottom of that bucket and how well it's done whether or not that
plumbing and so what or not as to whether or not the plumbing is getting clogged up
or anything like that uh how how good of a job it did so let's check it out
bye-bye little pup served as well
i don't know why i'm doing this i could just drag the whole thing out
oh the pipe is actually looking really clean
see i can scrape my all that there was just from me sawing at the
pvc pipe but
nothing and we've done a lot of screens thousands of screens through here
not dirty at all so it's doing its job same thing over here on the other end it is nice and clean
it's got these little bits here from sawing this thing up not a big deal get that out of there
and you can see most everything gets caught hey by this filter which this is going in the trash
and our pump is coated pretty badly what happened to give out was this little float here
it just didn't want to turn on without rattling it a whole bunch so it started overflowing
you can see that aside from paper towels and some leftover pieces of filter
not a whole lot of residue down in here for the pickup but where most of it's going to be at
is this guy right here look at that so the filter catches quite a bit then this bucket catches a
lot of the heavy sediment that just down that just sinks down to the bottom then spills over
this catches even more sediment and then the pump just kicks it out and i imagine it has some sort
of filtration inside the pump itself i'm going to reuse this tube here so we're not wasting anything
so i just have to unscrew this guy probably end up cleaning it up a little bit
or i might not you can see after two this thing has lasted two and a half years it has started
to bow a little bit so it's time to replace this anyways uh on the other hand i can't say that uh
this area over here is spotless i'm not gonna worry about that went to the hardware store
because i got the wrong size couplers but let's go ahead and hook this thing up and
get a fresh new setup installed here is the fresh new pump i already opened it up just to make sure
nothing had changed on the pipe dimensions got ourselves a box instructions all that great stuff
i've already been through this spill once here is a little bit of an adapter we go down to
one inch but we're using the full one and a half inch
so we're going to thread our pipe straight into there here's our float that kicks it on and off
and then our power cord this thing is screaming bald eagles because it's made in america so
that's awesome atlanta georgia something you're gonna need is some primer and cement
this was about seven bucks i'll show you the receipt so 797 for the cement and primer
96 bucks for the pump dollar 32 for the coupling i didn't need to get the
piece of pipe that i did so there's about seven bucks that was just a cost really didn't need but
all in all 133 dollars nine cents cheap setup will last you a good three years if you're looking it
lasted us two and a half years this floor are so soaked right now all right again very simple setup
i'm gonna move this thing into place
here is our pump i'm gonna put our bucket to the back we're gonna grab our cement
and close this thing up this will go on top of here water comes out into the bucket through
the filter overflows down into this tub and then the pump kicks all that stuff out down
the drain once it starts to fill up all right i got y'all in for a little bit closer of a shot
i'm just going to thread this in here we're using the same stuff so not a whole lot of waste
if any just adding a coupler i'm just going to tighten this up
and tight looks like we cross started it that's not good let's try that again
there there we go that's feeling better now we got it so there we go from there hand tight
we'll just unravel our power cord we got a plug right up there route this outside
scoot this guy all the way to the back so our pump is pretty close to the front here
i apologize if i'm getting y'all's way but we're just gonna mock this up real quick
looks good now it's time to seam it in
these lids can be a little difficult to get off so a wrench might be needed to unlock it
now this softens the pcv or pvc pcv i forget the pvc it softens it and it also cleans it
so we're going to go around this end this end here hopefully i'm not getting in the way
so it softens it cleans it it gets it make ready to join up we're going to do the same thing
with our little coupler here where we cut it it's just going to join it
down in there there's probably maybe a quarter of an inch right there where you're gonna have
a little bit of a gap but that's not that big of a deal then we're gonna take our cement open it
up yeah spilling a little bit of cement
first thing i'm going to do so i'm just going to put a little
around this pipe here all the way around and on the inside of the fitting here
these two glued ends i'm going to slide them together and then give it a a turn i'm going to
give it at least a quarter of a turn this is going to bond really quickly like i can't even turn that
now it's already bonded well enough so make sure your placement is where you want it i'm going to
put a little bit of glue on the inside here and i'm going to get a little more glue for this pipe
and you want to work quickly and we did talk about that turn this about as much as i can turn it but
i am turning it some going to press it until it's flush give it a turn and i'm just gonna
send it home all right this thing it's only been a few seconds but i imagine it's pretty
much ready to go doesn't take very long putting my bucket in there um i'm going to take my float
and set it over on this side here so it can float up not sure if you guys can see that but here's
the float we just want to make sure it has plenty of space to actually float up then we just take
a filter and set it over and she's ready to rip tater chip only other thing we need to do
is plug this bad boy in and now
this might take a while it's got a five gallon bucket to fill
and then it's got that appeal so we'll check back once it's getting close
it's almost there it's almost there
apparently it's already gone off once but it's busy pouring water down
look at that ladies and gentlemen there we go
back in action
and drained it rather quickly so there you have it got everything reset up refurbished to an extent
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