hello hello thanks for tuning in all right guys today i wanted to share with you a five-stage
water system water filtration system that i built for my house with everything that's going on today
with coronavirus leading back to flint michigan and the water crisis up there with lead piping
you know america's infrastructure is coming on you know over a century old in most places
and these pipes have been underground for 100 plus years now so there is issues even if you're on
city water it's supposed to be cleaned and supposed to come to your tap clean
especially if you're on well water fortunately we have both here and i have the option to
choose between either or but while you're sitting here looking at these filters hanging on the wall
i want you to take note of the filters inside the housing the brown ones those have been in
about three months and then the filters right on top that are white that i'm going to change out
uh and those are the clean ones and there's some other filters on the system and we'll
talk about each one we'll talk about the ratings i won't bore you to death with the science behind
everything but i do want you to make an educated purchase and live healthier and smarter so
this water is coming in from the city and as you can see we expect to turn on the faucet and we
get nice clean water as you see my filters are catching some rust dirt looking contaminants
that would be going directly onto your skin when you're showering you will be drinking that water
if you drink tap water cooking with that water if you cook with it you know these these are all
things that you can't see with your eye the filter is now catching it and you can see it through the
clear chamber that is actually catching stuff and like i said this is only about three months worth
so filters are going to be sold in a variety of what's called micron sizes and that's the ability
for the filter to stop a certain particulate piece of trash matter whatever you want to
call it at a certain level and then those are broken down into absolute and nominal filters
so i know it's a lot but real quick an absolute filter means that if you're looking at that center
filter right there and you see 20 micron and i'm just zooming in and like i said we'll go
over each one 20 micron and if that was an absolute filter it would mean that 99.99
of all particles larger than 20 microns will be trapped in that filter
a nominal rating filter which most filters are and which this one is a nominal rating one
this one will trap about 85 80 to 85 of everything 20 microns or bigger there are
some instances where it's gonna let 20 microns pass through and that's like if the size was like
19.999 microns it's gonna flow through if it was an absolute it would have stopped it so those are
those little variables that you have in in the systems and how you have to look out for things
all right so with that you know what filters you have mostly nominal filters on the market if you
want to be 100 sure that you're getting that level of filtration go with an absolute filter
microns which is the measure of how the filter filters the water micron is a unit of measure
that's equivalent to one millionth of a meter so that's it's pretty small red
blood cells are somewhere in the 10 micron range or so and human hair depending on how
thick your hair is falls between 10 and 100 microns just to give you a quick example so
we'll go in and we'll look at
exactly what what can be stopped at the micron level and i'll explain what each filter does and
exactly how it works and that way you can make like i said a better educated guess on
how you want to filter your water so for a size comparison one inch is about 25 000 microns
so a micron is really small we're gonna go and zoom in now on the first stage here
and if you see the first stage right there that's stage one that's 100 microns of filtration
so that is an absolute filter it's stainless steel it's made out of mesh it is washable
reusable at 100 microns you're going to be catching some pretty big particles that you're
going to be able to see with the eye so you'll be able to see particles at 100 microns and
some examples of 100 micron particle maybe car and auto smoke beach sand
cement dust could be up to a hundred coal dust could be up to a hundred
coffee grinds fine coffee grinds dust mites can be a hundred
missed i'm just going through some things
radioactive fallout falls in between the 100 micron range
uh pollen can fall into that moss pollen so to give you an idea you're trapping pretty
big stuff you can generally see all that stuff you can generally see cars smoking
generally see coal dust and you definitely don't want to be drinking that so that's the
first stage it hits this and then the water goes right into the second stage which is right there
and that's a 50 micron so a 50 micron again this is an absolute because it's stainless
steel it's washable at 50 microns we're getting everything half the size that we just talked about
so now we're in the range of capturing asbestos dust
again finer beach sand finer smoke particles clay we can start filtering out clay fire coal dust
finer coffee fertilizers we're starting to filter out fertilizers now the bigger ones
um let's see what else pollens all types of pollens you're starting to filter out
so at this point we're starting to really start to filter out some things that we're kind of not
getting able to see unless there was a lot of human hairs in here and everything you can see
a human hair but one single strand is hard to see one spot of pollen is hard to see but you
can see a pollen cloud in the air to kind of give you an idea so at that point after the 50 micron
we hit a 20 micron which is right here and this is a nominal so this is only going to catch about
85 percent of 20 micron so we're going to look at the 20 micron range and
we're starting to get down into bacteria catching some bacterias again more asbestos
let's see what else we got here at 20. calcium zinc smaller dust particles we're catching
again cement dust clay all that stuff all this stuff that may have slipped past the 50
micron the 20 is doing a better job and what's happening is why it's staged
from biggest to smallest is we don't want to clog up the really good filter at the end the most
because usually the smaller the micron the more expensive the filter is so we want to
have several stages of filters collecting as much junk as we can before it gets to the final stage
so again at 20 micron we're starting to collect more and more fertilizer
uh all this stuff and then we're gonna get to the stage four here which is a five micron
now this is a dual filter i put in here which is a absolute filter so it is charcoal activated
along with some type of blown uh polycarbonate or whatever plastic they use in there but this
is 5 micron absolute so 99.9 after that filter anything larger than 5 micron will be gone which
again to give you an idea of what five micron is that's bacteria mold mold spores
anthrax is between one and five microns so you start to filter out anthrax again small pieces of
asbestos atmospheric dust you start filtering out everything else i said before now you can add in
carbon black dust let's see what else we got in here at that level
any type of coffee in the i mean it's funny coffee in the water but any type of water
a coffee at this point at five micron no coffee will make it past there no dust will make it past
there no fertilizers will make it past there you start to filter out insecticides now pesticides
paint pigments start to get filtered out herbicides start to get filtered out
red blood cells get filtered out here
so to give you an idea of that so at this point at five micron absolute
the water you've captured a lot of stuff at this time but you can squeeze even more out of it
so if we swing around now to the very last stage that i have which let me zoom out
let me pause this and try and angle this camera a little better
all right that's the best angle i can get you with the least glare
if you see i'll zoom out real quick
that filter is really not dirty at all the black you see in there is the carbon because that's
the second carbon filter after that five micron look at the one on top is clean as well but this
is 0.5 micron and this one here i believe is an absolute as well it's a point at 0.5 micron
we have now got rid of all mold spores all mold itself most bacteria
all of anthrax all of asbestos you got rid of all your auto and car dust and all that stuff
all of your cement dust all your coal dust coffee is gone dust mites fertilizer
ins all insecticides are gone
you're starting to filter out most lead dust
all your pollens are gone most of your radioactive fallout's gone
start to filter out um any type of like electrical solder smoke rosin smoke stuff like that
you start to filter out sea salt at this level
all your pollens are filtered out and most of your tobacco smoke is filtered out of there
so all in all by the time you hit here you filtered out almost everything out of that
water so the next and last step which i'm going to add later would be a uv light because at 0.5
microns you could send it in and uv it and that would kill viruses and all that other stuff
and then right up on top there i got a pressure gauge
up there so i can always read the pressure coming out so like i said this system is not expensive to
do it's very easy it's a five stage system it's cheap to maintain if you look at the cost of
setup for this you're out you're out a couple hundred bucks you know really if you get all the
pieces and do it yourself you're out a few hundred bucks the filters depending on which ones you get
range between five bucks to fifteen dollars and the more you buy in bulk which i suggest
getting a year or two at a time um you save so your initial cost is high up front but the
system pays for itself in the long run because add up all the bottled water you would use
your skin is softer your hair is softer look at all that rust that you're not drinking just think
of all the carcinogens and everything you're filtering out because at the end of the day
when you're paying for municipal water they're just collecting rain water that god's giving you
and they're filtering it and putting chlorine and all that other stuff in it and it's going
through an old infrastructure that's been sitting in america for a hundred plus years
and you're the end user and this is the water that you get and this is proof
that even if you're on good city water there's still more to be filtered out
before it actually enters your house and your body so i hope this helps you
make an educated decision on your watering needs thanks for watching please subscribe