Clean and transparent water is the foundation of the vital activity of the human body. Opening the water tap in your apartment, we are sure that clean water will now arrive. And if instead of good water a muddy, rust-colored liquid flows, liquid? In this case, the only correct way out is to install a household cleaning filter for water.
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The vital need to install a cleaning filter
When planning a water supply system in a flat, it is recommended to install filters for mechanical cleaning of tap water. What for? Well, everything is simple and clear! This measure is explained by the fact that during the delivery of water through broken and ancient pipelines of city networks and when taking water from water intakes, impurities enter the system.
The installation of a filter for water purification is guaranteed to prevent the penetration of sand, scale, silt formations into the water pipe of your apartment. In addition, the cleaning filters will eliminate the turbidity of water and the formation of an undesirable sediment having the ability to accumulate on the walls of water pipes. To verify the importance of filters for cleaning, perform a simple experiment. Pour water in one container directly from the tap, and into the other through a primitive homemade filter made of a metal fine-mesh net.
Leave such water samples for a day. In the morning you will be horrified to find the quality of water in both containers: one is a turbid liquid with whitish flakes, and in the other - clear and transparent water. Somewhere here, in one of the tanks, in agonizing expectation, all together Escherichia coli (E. coli) or Staphylococcus aureus (Staphylococcus aureus), which are difficult to detect in the water with the naked eye.
Naturally, you do not need to be persuaded to install water purification filters.
What are the cleaning filters
Conventionally, water purification filters are divided into the following types:
• coarse filters
• Fine filters.
Filters for coarse cleaning purify water from large particles of foreign substances. Therefore, the dirt does not remain somewhere in the depths of an expensive mixer, but safely settles on the filter mesh.
The filtering capacity of rough cleaning is negligible. At the same time, 0.3 mm particles are eliminated. Coarse filters are inexpensive and easy to use.
Structurally, the coarse filters are divided into: direct and oblique filters.
In this case, the mesh is easily untwisted and also easily cleaned of impurities. You can install this filter yourself.
More expensive models are a straight filter equipped with a manometer and a drain cock, as well as with a fibrous filter element.
The coarse filters are installed rigidly into the piping system. A direct filter is installed settling down. For vertical installation, it is recommended to install an oblique filter.
It is necessary to take into account the direction of the flow of the medium in the system. On the coarse filter, the direction is indicated by an arrow.
Filters for fine cleaning are used to delay small contaminations of tap water, whether soluble or insoluble. Filters are designed for fine cleaning of hot and cold water separately. The filter performs the following functions:
• direct washing of water in manual mode
• visual control of filter cleanliness.
Modern fine filters are equipped with removable filter elements made of high quality stainless steel.
The main parts of the filter are made of brass or durable plastic, the connecting elements and connections are equipped with o-rings.
Fine filter systems are screened and membrane filters.
The mesh systems are self-washed. The filtration method "reverse osmosis" is carried out through a special membrane under pressure. With this method of filtration, dissolved substances are retained in water molecules.
Such an ideal method of cleaning is used in European countries. High technology allowed to reduce the cost of the method, so it became available for wide application.
The highest level of filtration is the fine filter.
By choosing a household cleaning filter, you can proceed to install it yourself.
Installing a self-cleaning fine filter
Before installing the filter, you need to determine the location of its position. It is advisable to place the filter near the water pipes. Determine the location for the tap with purified water, while calculating how many hoses it will take.
The filter is set in several stages. The initial stage is the installation of a tap for filtered water. In most cases, such a crane is installed from the main faucet not far away. This may be the edge of a sink or countertop.
The next step is a branch to feed water into the purification filter. The water supply tap is closed and its residues are merged. The hose is disconnected in a metal sheath at the point of attachment to the water pipe.
In this gap, the adapter tee is cut. The thread is sealed, and the reinforced hose is installed in place. The faucet from the cleaning filter set is screwed in.
The filter is assembled from factory components. Ideal option is already collected filter.
The subsequent actions consist in removal of lock semirings, plugs and connection of plastic hoses. Then connect the tap and the filter inlet to the hose. The start of the entrance is connected to the T-adapter, and the outlet is with a pre-installed faucet for future filtered water.
The scheme of the connection will look like this:
• connected tee adapter
• Filter housing with installed cartridges
• tap for filtered water.
A check is made to check the efficiency of the filter. Verifies the correct installation of the adapter's tee and the presence or absence of leaks at the hose connection points. Now you can open the water tap to flush the system. After a few minutes, the installed fine filter will give purified water.
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