Water Filter Project

[Mortblanc]

These are regular plastic buckets w/lids as you would buy from a box store. I made sure I was getting food grade buckets and they were labeled as such.

I did a simple, neat job of it. The cartridge put through one bucket bottom, into the bottom bucket lid. A spout on the bottom bucket to access the contents. I am sure there are thousands of videos on the internet showing the same but I did not even look it up.

As for the strength of the buckets, well stop at the building supply store and get a look at how tall they stack those buckets of dry wall mud, roofing compounds and paints!! They don't worry much about the bottom of those five high stacks. I can not lift a bucket of dry wall mud on my own any more (probably 50k), and it is the same type bucket.

Besides, 20L=40kilo that goes into the top bucket. It only stays in the top bucket for the time it takes to filter and drain into the bottom bucket, which then only has the empty top bucket on board. All of the water lives in the bottom bucket. I am also not filling the unit completely up, only half full, just to not stress the build.

That way I can fill my empty water jug from the tap and pour it in, then draw off the container full from the filtered bit while what I just added is running through. I would suspect that the bucket never has more then 5-10L in it at any time.

I was surprised that it takes almost an hour for the water to flush through the cartridge. It does not run through, it drips through.

I just finished building a sturdy stand for the unit to sit on and I did make that massive! Well braced 2x4 probably stronger then the floor it is sitting on.