Hello, just wanted to tell you that this is very close to the system my grandpa put in place in our chalet in the mountains of valencia, Spain, in order to filter the rain water that we drank. It was the best water I ever had
Why does rain water need to be filtered? Both my plants and animals prefer rain water over the tap. The plants I used to test the tap water died, while the rain water plants thrived. So why do we filter rain water?
@@MrJaxparadize your plants and animals have a different and complex system that handles different germs and bacteria different. Imaging it like this : Animals can drink water from stagnant ponds and live another day. If we drink stagnant water its just about one of the most painful deaths we can experience :)
Great job, Robert! People do this in some rural areas in Brazil where the water supply provided by the government does not reach, and it works very well.
Thanks Miriam, sorry for the late reply 🙂 I want to show people that they can have such a filter when the water from the local supplier (government) is not very good and they can improve it
Miriam, do you live in S. America? If so I have a question. I have heard that China has been investing heavily in Brazil and other countries, buying farmland, radio and print media/television. Have you seen any such occurrence in your experience? In the US , China has been buying every farm they can get as well as other things. I am worried about this causing conflict in the future. Thanks for your time.
@@undernetjack election in October in Brazil and they are using the machine Domiant to count not good and the people in charge not good last news from Brazil 🇧🇷
Thank you for the English explanation. So many creators try to avoid this by using captions or robot voice over. It is so much more of a real and authentic creation when the creator explains with their own voice. It is appreciated.
I like such installations! For a biofilter in my optionion the system needs oxigen. I installed a similar system to clean a garden pond. I take some water from the pond flush it over a filter system like yours an give the system oxigen 50l/min. One cycle lasts 2 hours and the water get back in the pond after that time. The next cycle is starting. The principle is similar - seperate biological and chemical dirt or simple dust to clean it with bacteria and oxigen. The result is impressive a murky and musty pond become clear in three month.
I think the flow pipes should enter at the bottom of the barrel not at the top and drop to the bottom. The vertical drop in the pipes in this example are a route for water to bypass the filtration medium. As the gravels and rocks would not form a good seal with the vertical pipe area and lots of water would flow up through this gap route to overflow.
Yes, and no, his system adds water from the top forces it to the bottom of the first barrel, then up the next barrel, then out what you're thinking would remove the Grey drop-down pipe. However, it might have some clogging issues. That is if I understand what your saying correctly
But I guess you could use some sort of flow pipes at the bottom to block out debris too so I mean your way would totally work now that I think about it
I watched this entire thing from beginning to end, no pause. You're great at making get to the point videos and a genius with the other things. Thank you for the video. I appreciate it.
Great video! I love the detail. I use a rain barrel to water my raised bed garden. I prevent debris from entering the water by using a Gutter Helmet to catch rain from my roof. As a result, I never need to remove debris from my rain barrel!
Good job. May I suggest you rinse ALL of the filtering material before you put in the barrels. That will cut down on a lot of the dirt in the second rinse you do in the barrels. Again really good idea. Like the misquote netting.
If he had done it correctly, he doesn't need to rinse anything. The fact one drum is almost a repeat of the other drum doesn't improve the filtration by any means. Notice that he didn't show the final product. I knew from the start with his design that the final water will still be dirty.
@@alphainfinitum3445im no expert by any stretch, so im thoroughly confused by his design. There seems to be a lot of wishing going on. For example, just because pipes go from here to there is not a guarantee that the water will go. And I don't understand the bottom to top filtration at all. Cant this be one barrel, gravity fed top to bottom and work the first time? The mosquito netting was a good idea, but I think I would have sprung for playground sand. And isn't the charcoal supposed to be activated? Sorry to bug you but I'm confused and no one else seems to be the least bit critical.
Only change I would consider is a cut of valve between the 2 barrels & an easy disconnect so you can clean or replace the 2nd barrel with the charcoal with a fresh barrel. This would make it so you didn't have the wait time to recharge the carbon filter half. Just swap the barrels & you're good. Clean the now dirty one & repeat as needed.
Put faucet to open and close in the bottom of the barrels. Then you can flush out your filter system. And back flush each barrel for cleaning your filter materials. This is very similar to setting up a filter system for fish ponds.
Congratulations, you have the best video (than even an old lady can follow). Better by far than the instructions by the US state of Minnesota, who used a person who has probably never even seen an rainbarrel in her life.
I also watched the video, and i really admire and inspired, by his method of laying the pipes in the tanks. i thought since the water flows from the buttom to the top, he could've adopt the small smaller smallest order of applying the rocks sand and charcoal. This could have make the system operationally effective.
If you put in a verticle divider in the barrels you could increase the effeciency of each barrel by 50-70%. The inlet pipe would then discharge near the top of the inlet side. From the top you would start with several inches of large gravel, with several layers of smaller and smaller gravel, each several inches deep. The bottom layer would be small-medium sized gravel, filled in to a depth of about 4 inches above the partition. On the outlet side, would be 1 layer of small gravel, then several layers of sand, getting smaller as you get near the top. Optionally, the top layer of the outlet side could be layered foam. The top layer would be fine foam, then medium foam, then coarse foam, them a layer of "lava rock". This would enhance the filtering by providing a biologic layer. The lava rock has very high surface area (great both as a mechanical filter and biologic filter). The foam also has very high surface area. The lava rock layer should never be replaced. The foam can be removed and cleaned or replaced as needed.
That system is very close to the one my grandfather had for his shallow well water. His cylinders were brick and mortar. His was bigger 24 inches, I think that would about 61cm across and 48 inches deep. Thanks for sharing.
Hello! In the Appalachians here. There are many people in my area with old family homes from the 1800s like mine. Mine is 20 feet deep and 8 foot diameter at the bottom and 12 feet at the top. It holds approximately 7000 gallons. I do not have a filter other than a piece of screen covering a barrel at the top to catch leaf litter and the foot valve is 14 inches above the bottom to keep from sucking up the fine silt from the bottom. If I am home when the rain starts I will turn the water out for the first 15 minutes of the rain to clear the roof of debris and bird poop. My family has used the water from it for all household uses including drinking with no additional filtering for 4 generations. I clean and repair the cement lining once a year using a stiff broom to remove the silt from the walls and rinse it with clean water followed by a clorox rinse before patching and refilling it. The roof is tin not shingles. I would never drink water from a roof with shingles as they contain petroleum products which are toxic. I was told it was unsafe to drink the water from my cistern without a filter system in place by the health department so I tried the method described in the video. If you get a rain heavier than a light shower most of the water will back up and overflow the barrel system very quickly wasting most of the water. A filter process after the water enters the cistern wastes much less water. Since my family has drunk the water for generations without getting sick I have opted not to use it. This could be because of acquired tolerances to local pathogens or maybe I'm in a cleaner area where such pathogens do not exist. That being said, if you try drinking water without some kind of filtering you may become ill and infants and small children should not consume such water.
Very impressive! May be I'll built one later ,but I think I'll make with more barrel with one filtre support in each to allow more simple maintien. May be with just gravitation and no pressure (like koy pond filtrer)🤔 Thanks to show us that it was possible and simple!
The level of inlet and outlet may have brought more complications. Having the outlet height lower than the inlet would solve the problem. First run you have to give the system time to fill out and eventually run smoothly.
Hi Mr. Robert thank you for your video. very illustrative. But if you allow some observations, there is something important about the use of plastics in pipes and containers. the use of these products generates MICROPLASTIC in the whole water system and ends up being polluting to the environment. One option although it may be more expensive, but you could consider the use of copper in the pipes (maybe in containers it could be very expensive almost unaffordable), and in the tanks, maybe the use of some kind of coating on the inner walls of the tanks, some kind of natural resins or non-petroleum products) And also the mosquito netting you have to ensure the use of non-plastic elements. Another observation is the design of the tanks, think of a system of removable layers because as it is now and thinking about maintenance and cleaning it could be very complicated to service and clean and replace the whole system instead of replacing by layers.
I have suggestion for You ... make a FilterNet/Mosqito Net bag place in Berrel and fill with material and Close it with any rope or Zip tai, So when you want to clean your filter it will lot more easy to Clean , You only have to Pull Net Bag , No Need to Uninstal whole system , and Its easy to Handle all gravel will not get mixed .. I hope you Understand What i want to say .. all The Best 👍👍
i put 2 - 6" PVC compression couplers as scubber filters between the water intake pipes, and then to one 30 gallon filter barrel layer with 1" gravel rock and on top that pea gravel with a mesh bag filler with washed coarse sand, with more pea gravel layer then on top I put a mesh bag filled with activated charcoal chips with fishpond filtering pads covered with more pea gravel. in one compression coupler i put mesh bag with sand toped with pea gravel, and the 2 nd scrubber 6" PVC compression coupler i put a mesh bag filled with washed charcoal that then went over into the 30 gallon layered charcoal, sand, rock layered with pone bio filter pads
5Gal Buckets... x15-20 of them... Add to your collection! Fill up once with rock, sand, etc then load all, carry to site and dump! Repeat... Saves effort, keeps loads in safe manageable size and weight, and removes clean up of transport or allows transport with "classy" vehicles!
You can have my subscribe any day! Love the style and content, and it feels good to see a place with rain again. Phew. Your filter system will find a way to to my place soon.
If all you have is galvanized fittings, use them, but if you can get PVC or other safe plastic fittings, this would be preferable. I have seen similar systems in the Caribbean, but it's hard to get people to use them since the water supply is so contaminated. Great concept.
Brother, I suggest you to add an additional backwash system to anticipate the sludge trapped among the filter media particles. By adding this backwash system then the filter media arrangement will put in random and the the flow process direction will be downflow filtration.
Hello, thanks for showing us this. Please there are many things you need to change for this to work, because even though you didn't show us the final product after running many cycles, I can already tell you that from your design, there will be no improvement to the final quality of the water. 1. The smallest size of particles that a filter can filter out is determined by your finest material, which in your case is the fine sand. This means that even if you use multiple stages of the same design or run many cycles, your filtration will not get any better. With your current design there is really no need for the second drum. 2. Keeping you current design the materials should be as follows from bottom to top: Bigger gravel, big gravel, small gravel, smallest gravel, largest sand grains, larger sand grains, large sand grains, fine sand grains, finer sand grains, a layer of crushed charcoal, a thick layer of cotton,. Then press everything down with the lead. You will now need to put your outlet on top of the lead instead of the side of the drum. With this setup, even if your intake water is from a dirty river, the output will be as clear as bottled water. Your second drum can be your water storage. Just make sure in your water storage you put the appropriate number of drops of bleach(6% concentration) depending on the size of the storage. This setup I just gave you very scalable, meaning you can scale it up by expanding it out into multiple drums(not repeating it), or you can scale it down by using a smaller container and hence smaller amounts of all the materials I described. I tried this on a scale as small as a test tube in my lab using water from a dirty lake, and my result was as clear as bottled water. The water will be drinkable. Just make sure you don't take your sample from a source that has been chemically contaminated, because no amount of filtration will get rid of those contaminants. Rain water is ok, but just be mindful that it may be slightly acidic. Lake or river water that is not close to a factory is actually better.
I just realized two logical mistakes for that instalation. 1. the filter should have been installed before water tank. Because the organic mater on the roof can get into the tank easily and microorganism can find the opportunity to reproduce. 2. you add extra load on motor. The water could have been got into firstly filter and than tank with gravity the motor would flow the water directly to fitting.
Awesome!! Maybe a sump tank before the filters? You'd be able to collect all the leaves and smaller particles coming from the roof before they enter the filtration system. I'm really gonna try this collection system soon. Thanks for sharing
If what he was trying for was a slow sand filter, this is completely backwards. The way this is set up, it will only filter particles and debris, not bacteria, virii, and parasites. A slow sand filter has a biological component that eats nearly all the harmful stuff that can live in water and affect humans. In a slow sand filter, you slowly add water to the top of a barrel filled with progressively larger particles as the water travels down the column, and in that first sand layer, a biofilm will form that stops anything harmful from going further down the barrel. In the bottom, you place a bunch of crushed activated charcoal to catch any chemicals that have slipped through. A mature filter with a fully developed biofilm doesn't let a lot of water through, maybe 10 litres per hour, but the water that comes out is completely safe to drink.
Very nice project. The only observation I would make is that you did not put a pre-filter for leaves and other bigger things that will clog the small holes on the pvc pipes at the bottom of the plastic drums. This pre-filter outside the 2 drums to make it easy to clean.
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Good plan but I would have some additional variations like a cheesecloth filter before going into the pipe of the next barrel. Also a destination thank with shungite & maybe silver. In the first tank a little pool shock - chorine - (VERY SMALL QUANTITY) … I haven’t figured out how to automate dispensing pool shock in the first tank.
Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels. Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it. We need to stop planting green lawns and switch to local native plantings around homes. It is crazy to plant lawns and build golf courses in dry desert areas. We waste too much water and electricity.
The mistake you have done in installing your filter is that you did not wash thoroughly all the stones and gravel you use..thats why your finish product water, remains blurred and still murky
Hola, excelente todo muy bonito, pero creo debes colocar un 3er. Tanque como depósito del agua ya filtrada, pues el proceso de filtrar es y debe de ser bien lento, pues si No haces eso que digo, algunos de los tanques se dañara por la presión del agua. Ahh y al 1er. Tanque Yo le colocaría una flota, parecida a las que se utilizan en los sanitarios o tanques de agua (que en Mi País 🇩🇴 se les llama con el nombre de Tinacos), pues asi iría llenando de apoquito y a medida que filtra agua y sale al 3er. Tanque, El 1ro. Recibirá agua, y no habrá mucha presión pues nunca se llenarían en su totalidad. Ahhh olvidaba y/o hacerle un respiradero al 1er. Tanque, así si se llena mucho tendriá por donde salir el agua. Y por último, no Me hagas mucho caso hasta que confirme lo que digo, pues No soy plomero soy Dr. en Medicina 😊😂😂, suerte y Bendiciones.
If you want a two barrel stage water filter without all the fancy up&down pipes, just sit the first tank higher than the second tank! (In at the top, out at the bottom) simples!!
Hello, Very nicely made video. I am a chemical engineer and do not understand the logic of having the large gravel at the bottom of both tanks. Your drawing shows it as a once-through upflow system but actually I think I saw it was recycling from the tank. Did you show a drawing of the whole 2-filter tank pump circulation scheme? Really great work you do. I think my family in South Africa has application for this. You show also a charcoal filter separately. Would this be within the system too? Thanks very much.
I think you are over thinking it a bit. I'm pretty sure the large gravel is just a spacer to allow the water to flow, but keep the finer elements from falling into the holes in the pipe and blocking it.
nice set up. in case it is potable there are a couple of things that made me cringe a bit (other than plastic to metal threads). Are you using galvanised fittings purely for the tapered thread? what kind of silicone are you using?
Very good homemade system. I have 2 tanks each hold 22,500 litres/10,000 gallons. My system is not homemade a bit expensive setup by plumber. My water from roof gutters with gutter guard mesh is captured then flows down the down pipes then pvc pipe beneath ground maybe 1 metre and pvc pipe goes up to tank. The pressure gravity fed fills the tank and overflow fills the second tank. Electric pump is connected to first tank and feeds the house. Electric pump is whisper quiet. I also have 2 filters spread along water line up to house. Slightly expensive each system. First filter is under decking outside and second is under kitchen sink. Regular replacement for each filter filament costs me maybe $15 aud Per 6 months change over to new for best results.
I'd add diatomaceous earth and a back flush system. Imitate techniques used for pool filters, because they are known to actually work at removing harmful pathogens. Ultimately you probably still need some chlorine, because bacteria will grow in your tanks even if you have a micron size particle filter.
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Hello, just wanted to tell you that this is very close to the system my grandpa put in place in our chalet in the mountains of valencia, Spain, in order to filter the rain water that we drank. It was the best water I ever had
Glad to hear that 🙂👍
Why does rain water need to be filtered? Both my plants and animals prefer rain water over the tap. The plants I used to test the tap water died, while the rain water plants thrived. So why do we filter rain water?
@@MrJaxparadize your plants and animals have a different and complex system that handles different germs and bacteria different. Imaging it like this : Animals can drink water from stagnant ponds and live another day. If we drink stagnant water its just about one of the most painful deaths we can experience :)
@@erikanderson5387 why?
@@MrJaxparadize go for it but beware the metals in it
Great job, Robert! People do this in some rural areas in Brazil where the water supply provided by the government does not reach, and it works very well.
Thanks Miriam, sorry for the late reply 🙂 I want to show people that they can have such a filter when the water from the local supplier (government) is not very good and they can improve it
Miriam, do you live in S. America? If so I have a question. I have heard that China has been investing heavily in Brazil and other countries, buying farmland, radio and print media/television. Have you seen any such occurrence in your experience? In the US , China has been buying every farm they can get as well as other things. I am worried about this causing conflict in the future. Thanks for your time.
@@undernetjack election in October in Brazil and they are using the machine Domiant to count not good and the people in charge not good last news from Brazil 🇧🇷
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Thank you Robert for teaching these important skills to those of us that have become a little detached from what really matters!
You are very welcome
Thank you for the English explanation. So many creators try to avoid this by using captions or robot voice over. It is so much more of a real and authentic creation when the creator explains with their own voice. It is appreciated.
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Thank you 🙂👍
Robert, this is exactly what I need in our homestead! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in a very clear manner.
Glad it was helpful!
Sir Robert thank you for showing the flaws and not deleting them. You are awesome sir.
You are very welcome
I like such installations!
For a biofilter in my optionion the system needs oxigen.
I installed a similar system to clean a garden pond.
I take some water from the pond flush it over a filter system like yours an give the system oxigen 50l/min. One cycle lasts 2 hours and the water get back in the pond after that time. The next cycle is starting.
The principle is similar - seperate biological and chemical dirt or simple dust to clean it with bacteria and oxigen.
The result is impressive a murky and musty pond become clear in three month.
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I think the flow pipes should enter at the bottom of the barrel not at the top and drop to the bottom. The vertical drop in the pipes in this example are a route for water to bypass the filtration medium. As the gravels and rocks would not form a good seal with the vertical pipe area and lots of water would flow up through this gap route to overflow.
Took me a minute but yes you're 100% correct.
Yes, and no, his system adds water from the top forces it to the bottom of the first barrel, then up the next barrel, then out what you're thinking would remove the Grey drop-down pipe. However, it might have some clogging issues. That is if I understand what your saying correctly
But I guess you could use some sort of flow pipes at the bottom to block out debris too so I mean your way would totally work now that I think about it
@@Razie1201 I think they mean move the downpipe external as apposed to internal so you can monitor any potential leaks or bypasses to the filter?
@@wihdinheim0lol me too. Had to read it 3 times
I watched this entire thing from beginning to end, no pause. You're great at making get to the point videos and a genius with the other things. Thank you for the video. I appreciate it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you 👍🙂
Great video! I love the detail. I use a rain barrel to water my raised bed garden. I prevent debris from entering the water by using a Gutter Helmet to catch rain from my roof. As a result, I never need to remove debris from my rain barrel!
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Good job. May I suggest you rinse ALL of the filtering material before you put in the barrels. That will cut down on a lot of the dirt in the second rinse you do in the barrels. Again really good idea. Like the misquote netting.
Thanks 👍
If he had done it correctly, he doesn't need to rinse anything. The fact one drum is almost a repeat of the other drum doesn't improve the filtration by any means. Notice that he didn't show the final product. I knew from the start with his design that the final water will still be dirty.
@@alphainfinitum3445im no expert by any stretch, so im thoroughly confused by his design. There seems to be a lot of wishing going on. For example, just because pipes go from here to there is not a guarantee that the water will go. And I don't understand the bottom to top filtration at all.
Cant this be one barrel, gravity fed top to bottom and work the first time?
The mosquito netting was a good idea, but I think I would have sprung for playground sand. And isn't the charcoal supposed to be activated?
Sorry to bug you but I'm confused and no one else seems to be the least bit critical.
Really cool natural system and doesn’t look very expensive. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Only change I would consider is a cut of valve between the 2 barrels & an easy disconnect so you can clean or replace the 2nd barrel with the charcoal with a fresh barrel. This would make it so you didn't have the wait time to recharge the carbon filter half. Just swap the barrels & you're good. Clean the now dirty one & repeat as needed.
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I use a rubber plumbing boot.
Put faucet to open and close in the bottom of the barrels. Then you can flush out your filter system. And back flush each barrel for cleaning your filter materials. This is very similar to setting up a filter system for fish ponds.
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I love that you showed the curious cat what you were doing 😻 and that curiosity wasn't its demise 👍
Thank you! 😊
Congratulations, you have the best video (than even an old lady can follow). Better by far than the instructions by the US state of Minnesota, who used a person who has probably never even seen an rainbarrel in her life.
Just a tip, next time you do this, orient the cinderblocks with the holes facing up, they are designed to be used this way and are much stronger.
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That's good to know! Thanks!
I also watched the video, and i really admire and inspired, by his method of laying the pipes in the tanks. i thought since the water flows from the buttom to the top, he could've adopt the small smaller smallest order of applying the rocks sand and charcoal. This could have make the system operationally effective.
If you put in a verticle divider in the barrels you could increase the effeciency of each barrel by 50-70%.
The inlet pipe would then discharge near the top of the inlet side. From the top you would start with several inches of large gravel, with several layers of smaller and smaller gravel, each several inches deep.
The bottom layer would be small-medium sized gravel, filled in to a depth of about 4 inches above the partition.
On the outlet side, would be 1 layer of small gravel, then several layers of sand, getting smaller as you get near the top.
Optionally, the top layer of the outlet side could be layered foam. The top layer would be fine foam, then medium foam, then coarse foam, them a layer of "lava rock".
This would enhance the filtering by providing a biologic layer. The lava rock has very high surface area (great both as a mechanical filter and biologic filter). The foam also has very high surface area. The lava rock layer should never be replaced. The foam can be removed and cleaned or replaced as needed.
I got lost😂 but I’m interested in knowing more about these types of systems
That system is very close to the one my grandfather had for his shallow well water. His cylinders were brick and mortar. His was bigger 24 inches, I think that would about 61cm across and 48 inches deep. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent. I'm doing this soon for my off grid cabin. Thank you!
Excellent! 🙂
Drinking water will need boiling first.
You could use a gravity double filter instead with the same filter ingredients.
Saves the pump electricity as well as prevents spillage/leakage.
water barrel bomb with gravel sharpnel if pressure builds up too
Hello! In the Appalachians here. There are many people in my area with old family homes from the 1800s like mine. Mine is 20 feet deep and 8 foot diameter at the bottom and 12 feet at the top. It holds approximately 7000 gallons.
I do not have a filter other than a piece of screen covering a barrel at the top to catch leaf litter and the foot valve is 14 inches above the bottom to keep from sucking up the fine silt from the bottom. If I am home when the rain starts I will turn the water out for the first 15 minutes of the rain to clear the roof of debris and bird poop. My family has used the water from it for all household uses including drinking with no additional filtering for 4 generations. I clean and repair the cement lining once a year using a stiff broom to remove the silt from the walls and rinse it with clean water followed by a clorox rinse before patching and refilling it. The roof is tin not shingles. I would never drink water from a roof with shingles as they contain petroleum products which are toxic.
I was told it was unsafe to drink the water from my cistern without a filter system in place by the health department so I tried the method described in the video. If you get a rain heavier than a light shower most of the water will back up and overflow the barrel system very quickly wasting most of the water. A filter process after the water enters the cistern wastes much less water.
Since my family has drunk the water for generations without getting sick I have opted not to use it. This could be because of acquired tolerances to local pathogens or maybe I'm in a cleaner area where such pathogens do not exist. That being said, if you try drinking water without some kind of filtering you may become ill and infants and small children should not consume such water.
Thank you for your extensive comment 👍🙂
This is the exact system I was looking to set up . Thank you for the detailed video.
Very welcome! You can also see my mistakes here ua-cam.com/video/91H1gTdkxlQ/v-deo.html
Very impressive!
May be I'll built one later ,but I think I'll make with more barrel with one filtre support in each to allow more simple maintien. May be with just gravitation and no pressure (like koy pond filtrer)🤔
Thanks to show us that it was possible and simple!
Thanks 👍🙂
You are so clever Robert, well done. 👏👏👏
Thank you so much 😀
The level of inlet and outlet may have brought more complications. Having the outlet height lower than the inlet would solve the problem.
First run you have to give the system time to fill out and eventually run smoothly.
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That is just what I was thinking.
Nice vid mate i like the detailed time lapse , this system is probably good enough to filter most tap waters in the world
You just won me over with showing the cat what you were doing!
Thanks 😺🙀👍
Your English is good. Thank you for making this video.
Thank you too!
Hello from the States. Well documented and easy to understand and follow your reasoning.
Awesome project! I can see that speaking English is not easy for you but I assure you that you did a great job. Got a subscriber!
Thanks and welcome 👍🙂 in the next weeks I will redo the entire filter because I am not satisfied with how it works, you will see a new version
Another great project!!! You do such excellent work 👏 Bravo, for a job well done!
Thanks Chandra 👍🙂
Thank you so much Robert for all your efforts. Thx 4 sharing
WHEN HE SHOWED HIS CAT THE WORK HES DOING OMG THATS SO CUTTTEEEE
Thank you 😺
Hi Mr. Robert thank you for your video. very illustrative. But if you allow some observations, there is something important about the use of plastics in pipes and containers. the use of these products generates MICROPLASTIC in the whole water system and ends up being polluting to the environment. One option although it may be more expensive, but you could consider the use of copper in the pipes (maybe in containers it could be very expensive almost unaffordable), and in the tanks, maybe the use of some kind of coating on the inner walls of the tanks, some kind of natural resins or non-petroleum products) And also the mosquito netting you have to ensure the use of non-plastic elements.
Another observation is the design of the tanks, think of a system of removable layers because as it is now and thinking about maintenance and cleaning it could be very complicated to service and clean and replace the whole system instead of replacing by layers.
I have suggestion for You ...
make a FilterNet/Mosqito Net bag place in Berrel and fill with material and Close it with any rope or Zip tai, So when you want to clean your filter it will lot more easy to Clean , You only have to Pull Net Bag , No Need to Uninstal whole system , and Its easy to Handle all gravel will not get mixed .. I hope you Understand What i want to say .. all The Best 👍👍
Excellent, thank you so much for sharing may God bless you and yours always
You are so welcome, check out the filter mistakes here ua-cam.com/video/91H1gTdkxlQ/v-deo.html
i put 2 - 6" PVC compression couplers as scubber filters between the water intake pipes, and then to one 30 gallon filter barrel layer with 1" gravel rock and on top that pea gravel with a mesh bag filler with washed coarse sand, with more pea gravel layer then on top I put a mesh bag filled with activated charcoal chips with fishpond filtering pads covered with more pea gravel. in one compression coupler i put mesh bag with sand toped with pea gravel, and the 2 nd scrubber 6" PVC compression coupler i put a mesh bag filled with washed charcoal that then went over into the 30 gallon layered charcoal, sand, rock layered with pone bio filter pads
So Informative and helpful information. I can make in my home to harvest rain and reduce flow direct into the land
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5Gal Buckets... x15-20 of them... Add to your collection! Fill up once with rock, sand, etc then load all, carry to site and dump! Repeat... Saves effort, keeps loads in safe manageable size and weight, and removes clean up of transport or allows transport with "classy" vehicles!
Thank you, Robert, for sharing your knowledge and experience with to us!
My pleasure!
You can have my subscribe any day!
Love the style and content, and it feels good to see a place with rain again. Phew.
Your filter system will find a way to to my place soon.
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Thank you, sir, for the lesson. You may be saving many lives.
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If all you have is galvanized fittings, use them, but if you can get PVC or other safe plastic fittings, this would be preferable. I have seen similar systems in the Caribbean, but it's hard to get people to use them since the water supply is so contaminated. Great concept.
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I wouldn't use pvc, I would use cpvc. It's what is used for drinking water or pet is better too.
@@williammetzo5407 cpvc is also more Heat and UV resistant and it won't become brittle under pressure
only one improvement I can see a drain on the filter barrels so you can empty them before working on them, other wise amazing video
That's exactly what's coming this Sunday 👍🙂
Very nice setup! Your water will be cleaner than city water lol
I hope so! 🙂👍
Genius ❤!!! Greetings from Gothenburg Sweden. 😊
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Wow!! I love learning. You are a good teacher.
Thank you! 😃
You are working really fast ;)
Great job
Thanks 😁
Excellent work, you show the steps clearly, and it's a great system. Thanks for sharing, from California.
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Outstanding! This is the system I will build. I have watched videos, read, and this is the one.
Thankyou, for your time and effort, to make, and share this video, with all other, like minded individuals. Awesome!! Regards from New Zealand.
Thank you too!
Brother, I suggest you to add an additional backwash system to anticipate the sludge trapped among the filter media particles.
By adding this backwash system then the filter media arrangement will put in random and the the flow process direction will be downflow filtration.
Excelente, Sempre tem água limpa 🚰
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As I watched this video, I became more and more convinced that I need a wheelbarrow with a dual tire setup.
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Hello, thanks for showing us this. Please there are many things you need to change for this to work, because even though you didn't show us the final product after running many cycles, I can already tell you that from your design, there will be no improvement to the final quality of the water.
1. The smallest size of particles that a filter can filter out is determined by your finest material, which in your case is the fine sand. This means that even if you use multiple stages of the same design or run many cycles, your filtration will not get any better. With your current design there is really no need for the second drum.
2. Keeping you current design the materials should be as follows from bottom to top:
Bigger gravel, big gravel, small gravel, smallest gravel, largest sand grains, larger sand grains, large sand grains, fine sand grains, finer sand grains, a layer of crushed charcoal, a thick layer of cotton,. Then press everything down with the lead. You will now need to put your outlet on top of the lead instead of the side of the drum. With this setup, even if your intake water is from a dirty river, the output will be as clear as bottled water. Your second drum can be your water storage. Just make sure in your water storage you put the appropriate number of drops of bleach(6% concentration) depending on the size of the storage.
This setup I just gave you very scalable, meaning you can scale it up by expanding it out into multiple drums(not repeating it), or you can scale it down by using a smaller container and hence smaller amounts of all the materials I described. I tried this on a scale as small as a test tube in my lab using water from a dirty lake, and my result was as clear as bottled water. The water will be drinkable. Just make sure you don't take your sample from a source that has been chemically contaminated, because no amount of filtration will get rid of those contaminants. Rain water is ok, but just be mindful that it may be slightly acidic. Lake or river water that is not close to a factory is actually better.
Good video. Real good information. Have a nice day.
I just realized two logical mistakes for that instalation. 1. the filter should have been installed before water tank. Because the organic mater on the roof can get into the tank easily and microorganism can find the opportunity to reproduce.
2. you add extra load on motor. The water could have been got into firstly filter and than tank with gravity the motor would flow the water directly to fitting.
Awesome!! Maybe a sump tank before the filters? You'd be able to collect all the leaves and smaller particles coming from the roof before they enter the filtration system. I'm really gonna try this collection system soon. Thanks for sharing
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Good 👍. Liked. Will do. Thank you from India.
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Great, you are.I am very happy.I like 💕 your video 📸.
Thank you! 😃
Very good my friend! I’m now so this to. I look into your video for dis information. Thanknyoj
Fantastic job 👏 thank you for sharing! From Florida US .
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You are my friend boss, you are doing a great job. I'm looking forward to doing this kind of projects in my place in Kenya. One love and God bless.
You can do it! 👍🙂
Thank you for this design and step by step detailed process.
You are welcome 😊
can use just 6" PVC pipe but you'd have to put caps, drill hole to put fittings etc. the compression coupler has hole at each end fo pipe fittings+
Great for off grid living and survival if the SHTF.
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If what he was trying for was a slow sand filter, this is completely backwards. The way this is set up, it will only filter particles and debris, not bacteria, virii, and parasites. A slow sand filter has a biological component that eats nearly all the harmful stuff that can live in water and affect humans.
In a slow sand filter, you slowly add water to the top of a barrel filled with progressively larger particles as the water travels down the column, and in that first sand layer, a biofilm will form that stops anything harmful from going further down the barrel. In the bottom, you place a bunch of crushed activated charcoal to catch any chemicals that have slipped through. A mature filter with a fully developed biofilm doesn't let a lot of water through, maybe 10 litres per hour, but the water that comes out is completely safe to drink.
Nice work, I would also suggest a layer at the top of cotton wool to catch the superfine particles.
Great point!
Thank you Mr. Robert
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Great job. We all need to learn how to be self suficiente in these times.
Yes we do 👍🙂
Živijo Robi, zelo poučno...hvala. se vidimo kmalu ;)hasta la vitoria siempre
Super hvala, vi ste ze nazaj?
Very nice project. The only observation I would make is that you did not put a pre-filter for leaves and other bigger things that will clog the small holes on the pvc pipes at the bottom of the plastic drums. This pre-filter outside the 2 drums to make it easy to clean.
Hey can I get a parts list for this?
You could also use a uvc pond sterilizer in line to kill any germs or bacteria xxx
FYI, those hollow cinderblocks are improperly placed. Always place hollow blocks, open side up otherwise they will crush and damage your equipment
Love how he shows his kitty the tanks.
Thanks 🙂
really clever and impressive station you have :) keep going friend !!!
Hello Sir, great job . Take care your self and be safe and healthy.
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Good plan but I would have some additional variations like a cheesecloth filter before going into the pipe of the next barrel. Also a destination thank with shungite & maybe silver. In the first tank a little pool shock - chorine - (VERY SMALL QUANTITY) … I haven’t figured out how to automate dispensing pool shock in the first tank.
Gracias por tomarte el tiempo para hacer y compartir este gran tesoro gracias
Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels.
Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it.
We need to stop planting green lawns and switch to local native plantings around homes.
It is crazy to plant lawns and build golf courses in dry desert areas. We waste too much water and electricity.
Very good video, but I would have washed the rock/gravel/sand first!
Great job. Thanks for sharing this project with us.
Thanks for watching! 🙂
The mistake you have done in installing your filter is that you did not wash thoroughly all the stones and gravel you use..thats why your finish product water, remains blurred and still murky
thank you Mr. Robert for sharing this knowledge with us ... it's very useful for the coming days
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Hola, excelente todo muy bonito, pero creo debes colocar un 3er. Tanque como depósito del agua ya filtrada, pues el proceso de filtrar es y debe de ser bien lento, pues si No haces eso que digo, algunos de los tanques se dañara por la presión del agua. Ahh y al 1er. Tanque Yo le colocaría una flota, parecida a las que se utilizan en los sanitarios o tanques de agua (que en Mi País 🇩🇴 se les llama con el nombre de Tinacos), pues asi iría llenando de apoquito y a medida que filtra agua y sale al 3er. Tanque, El 1ro. Recibirá agua, y no habrá mucha presión pues nunca se llenarían en su totalidad. Ahhh olvidaba y/o hacerle un respiradero al 1er. Tanque, así si se llena mucho tendriá por donde salir el agua. Y por último, no Me hagas mucho caso hasta que confirme lo que digo, pues No soy plomero soy Dr. en Medicina 😊😂😂, suerte y Bendiciones.
Excelente!
Abraços do Brasil 🇧🇷
Great job Sir! Loved the video. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, will do!
If you want a two barrel stage water filter without all the fancy up&down pipes, just sit the first tank higher than the second tank! (In at the top, out at the bottom) simples!!
Thanks for a very helpful video, cna you tell me how you clean the filter system and how long it will last before it needs cleaning. Thanks again.
I heard the old man in you when you set down that first cinder block lol.
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A great video sir,
Regards from South Africa
Thank you 🙂👍
Hello, Very nicely made video. I am a chemical engineer and do not understand the logic of having the large gravel at the bottom of both tanks. Your drawing shows it as a once-through upflow system but actually I think I saw it was recycling from the tank. Did you show a drawing of the whole 2-filter tank pump circulation scheme? Really great work you do. I think my family in South Africa has application for this. You show also a charcoal filter separately. Would this be within the system too? Thanks very much.
I think you are over thinking it a bit. I'm pretty sure the large gravel is just a spacer to allow the water to flow, but keep the finer elements from falling into the holes in the pipe and blocking it.
Small holes in pipe plus larger gravel around it = holes remain unblocked.
You are correct.
Interisting,broo.Iam from Malaysia.
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Lots of work! But very nicely don job !
I hope it works wel for you for a long time!
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nice set up. in case it is potable there are a couple of things that made me cringe a bit (other than plastic to metal threads). Are you using galvanised fittings purely for the tapered thread? what kind of silicone are you using?
Very good homemade system.
I have 2 tanks each hold 22,500 litres/10,000 gallons.
My system is not homemade a bit expensive setup by plumber.
My water from roof gutters with gutter guard mesh is captured then flows down the down pipes then pvc pipe beneath ground maybe 1 metre and pvc pipe goes up to tank.
The pressure gravity fed fills the tank and overflow fills the second tank.
Electric pump is connected to first tank and feeds the house.
Electric pump is whisper quiet.
I also have 2 filters spread along water line up to house. Slightly expensive each system.
First filter is under decking outside and second is under kitchen sink.
Regular replacement for each filter filament costs me maybe $15 aud
Per 6 months change over to new for best results.
Thanks for the extensive comment 🙂👍
I'd add diatomaceous earth and a back flush system. Imitate techniques used for pool filters, because they are known to actually work at removing harmful pathogens. Ultimately you probably still need some chlorine, because bacteria will grow in your tanks even if you have a micron size particle filter.