before I begin if you just want to see the installation of the filters on the
water system you can skip ahead I'll put a time down at the bottom but for the
first part of this video I wanted to quickly talk about the filters I bought
why I bought them the system I'm going to set up how much everything costs all
the fittings you're gonna need and why I'm doing this the way I'm doing it so
we just bought a new house and we have a well and we live here in Michigan and we
get really good water pressure but we also have iron in our water and our
Simac in our water we had a test when we bought the house and they said we had 20
parts per billion of arsenic now this system will not get rid of the arsenic
the only way to get rid of arsenic is with a reverse osmosis system and we're
going to be installing two of those on six right under the sink upstairs this
is purely to get rid of sediment and minerals and hopefully iron that's in
the water so all of that isn't slammed into the reverse osmosis filter system
which is a series of filters and that doesn't clog up this is going to filter
everything in the house except the sprinkler system and the spigots on the
outside there's a bypass on the plumbing right over here this is going to
intercept all the other water and it's going to intercept it before it gets to
the water softener so before I bought anything I did tons of research I
watched videos and pictures and read about it and I saw people had done one
filter or they had three filters with the same filter cartridge in it
I saw filters that had been plumbed in parallel so you didn't lose pressure and
this is just the system that I came up with it makes the most sense to me and
what I've come up with is a series of four filters and each of them with a
smaller micron size opening so the way it's going to work is like all other
systems I'm going to tap off the existing line run through the filters
and tap back in I will have valves to isolate it and pressure gauges to
monitor the pressure coming in and out and before I keep going everything I
bought here I got on Amazon and I'll put links down in the description with what
I bought the cost and the quantity and the quantity I'm gonna actually use
because some of these I bought a packet I'm only using four but I'll put all
links and the cost for everything down in the description but for the filters
themselves these are the first two that I purchased and this one is a 100 micron
filter and this one is a 50 micron filter I know they look the same but
they have smaller openings in the fabric itself and the fabric when I say fabric
these are actually turndown filters or spin-down filters you're not actually
changing the filter it's kind of like the screen on your screen window where
it's just gonna catch the particles when this gets clogged all you have to do is
open the valve all of that will get washed out and close the belt and I
really like that idea that I'll never have to change a filter on either of
these two so these are gonna catch the big particles that come in the house
first the next two that I bought I was almost gonna buy there's a real popular
one it's blue from DuPont it was quite cheap there's a billion people that
bought it on Amazon but I won with these because they're clear and I wanted to be
able to see the filter I wanted to be able to see if it was clogged with iron
I'm gonna have pressure gauges but I wanted to see how a clog it was
immediately look at and say oh man I got to change that filter so I went with
these they're from culligan this is the filter casing this isn't the actual
filter the filter gets screwed placed inside of here and these are from
culligan they're on Amazon there's one of the most popular ones on there it
seems super well-built looking at the picture it realize how large it was but
these are really big they take a 10 inch by 4 inch circular filter cartridge that
looks like this and the cool thing about this is I bought two exactly the same
but I have in these I have a hundred micron 50 micron I'm gonna put a 25
micron in here and a 5 micron in here if it starts to get clogged up or I lose
pressure I might change this from a 5 to a 10 or 15 and that is an issue with
this is that as it is now water's running straight up through the house
and we're going to be putting it through bends and pipes and valves and gauges
and filters and we're gonna lose some pressure hopefully not a lot like I said
I live in Michigan we have plenty of water now
is estimated that each of these bends and fittings and tees you might lose a
half a PSI I think maybe each time it goes through these filters
I might lose up to five psi so if I have 50 coming out of that pump by the time
that goes through here it might be down to 30 I'm hoping not and by the time it
goes upstairs it might be 20 I hope not also the next point is I was
originally going to use solid copper pipe and you solder and hook it all up
but I decided to go with PEX piping which is right here one downside with
the PEX piping is the inside diameter it's slightly smaller this is all three
quarter inch pipe and three quarter inches what I have back there but the
inside diameter of PEX piping is a little smaller with the system I'm going
with you can expand the packs and that's one method of crimping on but with all
these different fittings these are actually smaller than a 3/4 inch and
it's recurrence with a copper the copper fitting fits over the 3/4 inch pipe
these are going on the inside of the three-quarter inch PEX piping so we
might lose some pressure by the time it goes through the whole system and
upstairs I'm hoping it's not a lot but it's something I have to look out for
now I went with a cheapest one which is this here and this tool actually works
for 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch and it kind of works like you know a hose clamp where
you put it on a up tube and use a screwdriver and you can tighten the hose
it kind of works in the same way where there's an inner ring and an outer ring
and you're compressing that I would a ring you're just kind of pinching it
together was only 30 bucks 30 bucks these were each each of these filter
casings were 52 and I think these were each 52 as well as pull the system was
right around $400 which seems like a lot but you could just go with one filter
and it would be half the cost but the main cost was in these filter systems
again with PEX piping the cost is a little bit more expensive than a normal
copper tee but these weren't too much I think these were a buck 50 I am going to
use a sharkbite fitting where I'm connecting to the existing system these
were five or six bucks these are the offensive ones you definitely don't want
to use the sharkbite fittings all the time just one or two in certain
scenarios where you can't weld it or you don't want to weld it now like I said I
did a ton of research and I drew the system out maybe 10 times and it helped
me to visualize how I wanted to do this because when I started I didn't really
understand the actual flow of how it was gonna go I know if you've done this
before it probably makes sense but like I said it's going to leave the existing
pipe I'm gonna cut it it's going to come into this sharkbite fitting from here I
want to install a tee which will go to a butterfly valve where I can isolate this
system so there's actually actually about three butterfly valves to where I
can shut off the incoming and outgoing flow of the system and one for the
bypass so if I ever want to change a filter I will close the filter system
valves open the bypass and the water will go straight through and straight
out but for most of the time I'll close the bypass and it will run through the
system now the way this is gonna go I'm gonna take this piece of plywood I have
right here I'm gonna mount it onto the wall I'm gonna fit everything on here
that I need and I'll make the final connection to my water system we're
actually have to cut the pipe on somewhere I'm like a Saturday or a
Sunday where I know I have plenty of time because there's going to be no
water to the house for a little bit while I make this connection but when
you're doing this before you start laying it out you have to decide where
this is going to go and you do want it open and easy and accessible to get to
so that's why I'm putting it on that big wall and tucking it behind somewhere
what I won't be able to get to it I won't be able to access it
this is the point we're on connecting I'm going to be connecting it to this
pipe here so I just set up my laser level just shine a line on the wall just
so I can get a rough estimate of where this is going to be because I want this
one in line pretty close the other one is going to come up drop
down and then go over and connect here but this one I kind of want to keep in
line Oh screwed up I figure it's a better
idea to put some of these fittings on here now and I definitely have to put
this fitting on first I can't mount this screw this in because
I have to spin this to rotate it down so I'll have to mount both of these
simultaneously but I might as well do the ends too
the crescent wrench doesn't fit