so today I wanted to go over this culligan water filter why I bought this
particular one and how to change the actual filter cartridge now this is a
culligan WH - HD 200 C not the most memorable name but there's a couple
reasons why I bought it I like the size of this cartridge it's
for a ten by four and a half cartridge that looks like this um another popular
filter you could have bought is I think it's made by DuPont it's blue it's a
little bit cheaper but I really like this one this was $50 I think the DuPont
ones 20 or 30 I like that this is clear and as you can see we have rust in our
water and I like to be able to see when I need to change your filter this one
looks pretty good this one's ready to be changed real quickly the filter system I
set up I did a video on it earlier real quickly the water system we have set up
here we have a well and we have arsenic in our water a small amount but this
will not get rid of the arsenic we need a reverse osmosis filter to get rid of
that but we also have some other particles including an iron which turns
to rust as you can see here I have a 100 a 50 a 20 and a 5 micron filter to
filter that out these two are the iSpring filters that
are blow offs you just open the valve and they blow out right off now as far
as these filter units themselves they're a lot bigger than I thought they were
gonna be when I bought them and they're really nice and sturdy I thought this
was gonna be a thin plastic or this was gonna be kind of cheap plastic it's
pretty well built it's nice and solid I'm not worried about it breaking once
minor concern was where you're putting the fittings in you're screwing the
brass fittings in are plastic it's not super reliable looking but I haven't had
any issues so far but they're definitely well-built so today you can see this one
is full of rust this is where I have a 20 micron filter in and it's all clogged
up I'm gonna change it our iron in our house is really bad this has been not
quite two months and it's gotten to this point so because of that you don't just
buy one filter you have to buy a whole bunch
to get a good deal if you buy one of these filters you can get them for 10 15
20 bucks maybe I bought a pack of 20 and it averages out to under $7 a filter
again these can use any 10 inch by 4 and a half inch diameter filter there's a
whole bunch there's the accordion style filter there's ones that are woven wire
there's carbon filters so the good thing about these is you can use them for any
situation you want you buy this one filter unit you could put a 5 micron a
20 50 you can do the carbon filter so these can fit any insert you want to put
in there right now you can see I have two in here this is a 5 micron with a
different housing and this is the the 20 micron so I'm gonna change the 20 micron
right now so the way I do with my system is first I close the water coming in at
one end and the other so now this is closed and now I don't have to but I
would open this so now there's still water to the house
it's just bypassing all these filters so now there's no water getting to any of
these valves I can open up this valve to let off the pressure but just so you
know if you don't have this unit there's a blow-off valve a red button on the
tops of these units what I like to do is put a towel on it and push the button
and right now it just got soaked with water so the pressure is now removed
from this filter and you can check that if you don't have this I can open up
this valve and I can see that no water's coming out next you get one of your big
wrenches and it's a little bit tricky you have to remember it's lefty loosy
but you're looking from the top so it's actually so you just slide your wrench
up on the filter cartridge and it's secured to the wall with this big
bracket you don't just want to have it hanging
yeah oh and these can be really stuck on there with all the pressure and the
filter and also you're gonna want plenty of rags and I have a big bucket under
here to catch the water because this is full of water right see house unscrew it
and water will start to pour out like that
also water is pouring out because it's coming out of this whole system right
now and pull it down and now you can see this character just pretty well spent
it's around rust all the way through
next pour that out and I'm not going to clean this one because it looks pretty
clean if it's really bad sometimes rust could get out here and I'll give this a
good wipe to get all this out but one thing you have to be pay extra attention
to is this gasket up here at the top you don't want it to I could see it's gotten
a little bit bigger than the fitting you want to put a lot of grease on this and
good thing is I can still see grease on it from the last time I did this and the
grease you want to use is something like this it says food grade or non-toxic
sanitary
spend a couple hours since I just shot that last clip and that was because I
was trying to get this o-ring to fit back in this groove when I took it out I
noticed it was a little boat and I tried some different things well I tried one
thing and that was to freeze it I put it in the freezer for two hours and I came
back and it still doesn't fit so that's why it's always good to have a bunch of
oring backups that also fit now I'm gonna try to get this to fit I'm gonna
try to put it back up in here if it doesn't fit tightly which it doesn't
right now it's kind of bowed out you can see at the top there's a big bow in it
I'll use another oring another technique they said you could use a heat gun or
try boiling it I'm not going to go through all that trouble yet I'm gonna
try to get it in there um but first you do have to use this lubricant too
because that oring needs to be a floating oring it shouldn't just be
sitting in there it needs to freely move and not get pinched when you seat it so
I like to use a lot of this uh lubricant jelly put it down here so that it okay
so I put a quite a bit of the lubricant on the whole ring then I take the new
filter and I put it down in the coverage there's a little bump that sticks up
there if it's right in the center and now you have to thread this back up in
there and making sure that this hole lines up with the inlet hole on the
filter and I'm also gonna try to get this o-ring to fit in there to be
pressed back into place if it doesn't work on though because it will start
leaking pretty tight one little cinch with this there we go
should be all installed back I'm gonna turn the water on now
let's turn the bypass off slowly turn the mainline back on we should see it go
up yeah now we'll know if it leaks or not
okay the water is back on I opened up the filter line and the outlet line I
don't see any leaks I don't feel any leaks that should be it another thing is
if you don't have shut offs like I have where I can shut the water off there is
you can turn this and you can go to bypass you can bypass this and it will
not leak out so you just turn this blue ring to bypass on here and water won't
come out also after you reinstall the filter it's a good idea to push this red
button to let out any air because air is trapped up here you can see water shoots
out so that gets any air out of the system but overall I'm really happy with
these culligan filters are super sturdy I haven't had an issue knocking on wood
again they're they're a little bit plasticky the fittings plastic it takes
a big fitting the big 1 inch fitting but overall they've held up great I can see
right in when the filters dirty I can see if I have how the rust is if it's
ready to be changed but I'm really happy with the system I have overall these are
much more convenient when they're dirty you just open it up close it all that
stuff is washed off but overall these handle a lot more through the filter and
I haven't had an issue with flow into the house some people might say oh you
add a filter you're gonna reduce your pressure you're gonna reduce your
gallons per minute I haven't had an issue I'm using 3/4 inch pipe the
fittings are one-inch coming in so I haven't had an issue with flow through
the system at all I did just a non-scientific test trying to fill up a
tub or a bucket up in the upstairs I haven't had an issue with the flow so
overall I'm really happy with it how they how these filters have worked so
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