What's up everyone? Welcome to The Durbin Compound. In today's episode we are talking about water filters,
choosing the right water filter for you, in your situation. If you're just joining the channel
or you're a longtime subscriber, well, my name is Devin Durbin and I'm here to bring you the tools,
tips, and tricks to make you more self-sufficient. Hopefully after today's video, you will be able
to make an educated decision on your water filtration. And if you're looking at putting in a system
and you have any questions or concerns, well, let's see if I can answer them. Stay tuned.
All right guys, so we're downstairs in the utility room of The Durbin Compound. So I wanted to show
you guys some different thoughts when it comes to choosing your water filter.
So, first and foremost, you want to get a water test done at your property. So, whether you're on a well
or you have water from a municipality, all water is different. So, if you're on a well
you are pulling that water from an underground aquifer. So, that aquifer is basically a product
of its environment. So, if you're in a sandy climate or a clay climate or a rocky climate
it gathers sediment and stuff as the water filters through the ground and collects in the aquifer.
It is a product of all of the stuff that is around it. And that is what's going to be in the water.
So you need to do a specific test for your water that you're dealing with and then you need to combat
that in a filtration way, or a water treatment way, so that you can have great water on the other end.
So, I always recommend a whole house filter for any setup, whether it's a, you know, a municipality water
which their standards before a boil alert are kind of scary. A lot of stuff can be in your water
before they do a boil alert. So, it's just one of those things. But if you're on a well
you have some different water that would be different in different areas.
So, if you have a sulfur smell or that egg smell that's really, really bad
those are certain things that are going to be treated by different systems. So what works best
for you is all dependent on your water. So I'm going to go over what I do for my water and then
maybe that will help you along the water journey and fitting filters for you in the future.
So first and foremost, coming out of the well I have a sediment filter down here.
So, these usually come white just like this, pure white. And this is a five micron filter that is replaced every,
about every three months. I replace this one about every 30 days. So this is about 20 days
on this filter and you can see the iron deposits here and the sediment just coming from the ground.
It's just one of those things. It collects all the crap that you don't want to go through your equipment.
So, after it goes through this sediment filter, it goes into my water softener. So if you
don't know what a water softener is, I have a video on that. I recommend that you go check it out.
I'll put a link in the description below, just so you can educate yourself on what a water softener does.
But a water softener can have all kinds of different guts inside of it. So, it can
have activated carbon. It can have coal in it. It can have resin beads. Mine is filled with resin
because it is combating calcium deposits. So the main reason for my water softener is calcium.
So that takes care of my sediment and iron. This takes care of my calcium. And then after the
water softener, you see these blue PEX tubes come over to this filter. Now this filter here is
a carbon filter which takes care of taste and odor. So, I have a small egg smell or a small sulfur deposit
that comes and goes. So it's not constant, but I have my taste and odor filter to take care of that.
So, this provides me with pretty darn good drinking water. So it is very good. We like it a lot.
I drink a lot of the water here and it's just some of the best water I've ever tasted. So I chose to do this.
This wasn't installed when I bought this home, but I chose to do this setup because stuff
like this, where you have the the iron deposits in the filter, this shows up in your toilets,
in your sinks, in your bathtub. So, I have this filter to make sure that I'm not having those deposits
in the appliances. The calcium will start to soap scum. The calcium will start to
build up on your aerators underneath your sink and in your shower heads. This combats that and takes care
of that for me. And then I don't like to smell that egg smell. So, I've got the taste
and odor filter. So this is my setup. There are a bunch of other different setups. And there are some
water softeners that have double elements, some that treat chlorine.
If you have a really, really bad sulfur taste or a sulfur smell, you might have
a chlorine injection system. So there's all kinds of different stuff. If you have a huge iron problem,
you can get a softener that's designed just for iron. I think it's called an iron blocker,
or something like that, and the softener is designed exactly for that. So get with a water treatment
place or company and have them test your water and then make a system that makes sense for you.
If you'd like to filter on past this, there are filter systems like reverse osmosis.
If you're looking into reverse osmosis, one thing I will tell you, in my opinion, is that it is
tasteless and just does not quench your thirst. And that's why I really don't like reverse osmosis
because no matter how much I drink it, I'm going to the bathroom a lot, but I don't feel like my thirst
has been quenched. So I'm usually always turning to a carbonated beverage or something
that you can taste. So, I have a lot of friends with RO (reverse osmosis) and they just love it, but that's not for me.
I really like to taste a little bit of, you know, deposits and stuff in the water that I haven't filtered, okay?
This is stuff that, you know, if your iron isn't filtered, it's not really bad for you.
If your calcium isn't filtered, it's not really bad for you. It's not going to kill you,
but it's just those appliance things and making things last longer around your home.
So, I hope I educated you in a couple different areas when it comes to deciding what filter is best for you.
If you don't want to go to a water treatment place and get your water evaluated, well, you can do
the old shoot from the hip, and you can say, "Hey, I've got red staining in my appliances and so
I obviously need a sediment filter or an iron blocker." You might want to run Red-Out salt
in your brine tank for your water softener. If you're getting a bad smell, hey taste and odor,
let's put a couple of those in. There are so many things that you could do, mild to wild.
This is just my setup. This is not the end-all, be-all set up, but this is just what I've chosen to go with.
And a filter that I can replace every month or every couple of months and enjoy
nice water around my home. So I recommend it for you. And I hope this video helped you out.
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