I guess you know that they make a special grease. I don't know what Vaseline might do to your drinking water (can't imagine it will harm the plumbing.) It made all the difference when it came time to replace the filter. Lowe's carries these: The Waterproof grease is for static applications (grease the seal, assemble, and it sits.) The Silicone grease works for static AND dynamic applications (cartridge faucets that move & slide when you use them.) The manufacturer told me that the Waterproof version would wash off if you used it in a dynamic application. I have no idea why they make it, since the Silicone grease works everywhere and they cost the exact same amount...I did not think to ask.
Thanks, John, Will check on that, while ordering the wrench. Forget who told me about Vaseline, was a long time ago. Kind of like Grandma's recipes. lol
Drained well today, and topped the bladder with air. Noticed on bacteria ballast light, when on auto, wasn't lighting up when I turned water on, like it usually does, so went in got another bulb, and tried it, still nothing on auto; but when switched to intermittent it works. Will have to check on that and see why. I don't want it on intermittent all the time because it would make the bulb burn out faster. The new filtration system is really working fantastic, "so far".
So far so good with the new filtration system; I have no complaints at all. When I checked the bacteria light the next day, it came on every time on automatic, that I tried it. Not sure why when I changed filters, it would only light up on intermittent. "Working now". These filters are good for a year, but I changed them Nov. 21, 2024; after four or five months; because pressure wasn't as good as when I first put them on, this new system. I think after all the flushing tank, due to contamination, staining sinks and tub ; it kind of plugged them up too soon. But the new ones are working great so far with plenty of pressure. I'll see how long these work.
I have 2 filters in my system that are supposed to be good for 6 months. Since I live alone, I imagine they'd last longer than that, but since I run a cleaner through the softener every 4 months (the unit has a timer that reminds me), I change the filters at the same time. I have a lot of mica flakes in my water. I know your filters are larger (and likely more expensive) than mine are. I wonder if you could get away with just changing the upstream one more frequently and leaving the downstream one in longer. Did you happen to inspect them?
Yeah, I checked them when I changed them out; they looked pretty good, so I was thinking about reusing them; but after I saw how much more pressure difference changing them made; I threw them in garbage can, so trash folks could take them away. I'm going to see how close to a year these last, and still change the six month one, every three to four months. It's the first one the water comes through. As I had said; I believe there was too much build up of gunk, in the tank and lines, when I first put the system on, and it plugged them too soon. Will see how long these last this time; so far so good.
Yeh, what are we supposed to do? If the filters slow down the flow rate, then they're doing their job...that's why we installed them in the first place. The more rapidly they plug up, the better off we are that we've got them.
If the filters are the same size and porosity you can move the downstream to the upstream position and only change one filter, but that isn't common.
The yearly filters; which are three, are the same size. The six month filter, is only about; less than half the size. Not exactly sure what you mean, move down stream to upstream, though.
I think Don means that the flow goes through one filter, then another, then another. The first filter (the upstream one) is gonna grab most of the crap, while the last filter in line (the downstream one) gets the least of it. So Don was saying to move the furthest downstream filter to Posiiton 1 in the flow, since the downstream filter should hardly have any sediment in it (because the other filters have already removed the gunk.) I know my first filter gets a lot of stuff in it, but cannot really tell about the second one because it's a black carbon filter. And I wouldn't put the carbon filter in Position 1 anyway.
Exactly! It will only work if you have two identical filters though. I have used this with technical water filtration when we had multiple filters, two of which were the same. You move the clean one to the "dirty" position and discard the dirtiest filter, then replace only the one furthest from the source.
Thanks, John and Don; I will have to try that, they're all three the same size. May save me some money, doing that.
The farm water is scary and we have a filter but at hubby's house we don't have any. We do distill our water though.