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Our supply came from a spring - after travelling via a stream!
We had a raw filter
https://www.screwfix.com/p/bwt-high-capacity-carbon-water-filter-cartridge/11608
Then a UV unit. Bulbs lasted about 2 years - easy to tell as the whole unit glowed. Would have been easy to change but the idiots didn't allow enough clearance for either unit so you had to remove everything.
Rented house - only kitchen tap was filtered. UV not working when we moved in. Landlady was a crook - one of the top schools inspectors - earned 100k a year paid by us tax payers!
I had to fix everything but loved the house so much I was prepared to do it.
We had a raw filter
https://www.screwfix.com/p/bwt-high-capacity-carbon-water-filter-cartridge/11608
Then a UV unit. Bulbs lasted about 2 years - easy to tell as the whole unit glowed. Would have been easy to change but the idiots didn't allow enough clearance for either unit so you had to remove everything.
Rented house - only kitchen tap was filtered. UV not working when we moved in. Landlady was a crook - one of the top schools inspectors - earned 100k a year paid by us tax payers!
I had to fix everything but loved the house so much I was prepared to do it.
brewdexta
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We use Springhill water, only a few miles from Halifax. We used to use Marshall Pumps in Oldham but the service was disorganised, had to keep reminding them a service as due. We've got a particle filter and UV treatment on the spring plus a borehole with iron removal plant as the spring is unreliable, so I use mainly for brewing beer and as a back-up when the borehole needs maintenance. UV filters need a flow restrictor so the UV has time to zap the bugs so you may need more than one to get a decent flow. Most in our village have drunk the spring untreated for years, its mainly surface water so probably full of sheep dung but they don't seem to care, it has a slight green tinge......
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Which is fine until an animal falls into the burn and can't get out, so dies there.......
Parm
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Where’s that?
Robbie260
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Hmm all the uv recomendations are suprising as in the marine industry it is only allowed as a back (ie in line with a water fountian) up due to the fact there is no way of telling if the bulbs are still producing uv light.
If you want good sterilization you need chlorine or silver ion sterilization systems though cholrine losses its effectiveness and requires toping up after a period of time and silver takes at least 24 hours to have full effect. Chlorine minium suspention time is 12hrs i think for full effectiveness. Silverion is really good as it lasts indefinately in suspention and the annodes last on average 2 years + on a ship so for a domestic system will last a long time. Only down side is the owner would have to be taught how to work the system though that aint difficult its just varying the current for the flow throught the sterilizer when filling the tank.
Carbon filters are really good and remove most things and bad taste from the water supply.
If you want good sterilization you need chlorine or silver ion sterilization systems though cholrine losses its effectiveness and requires toping up after a period of time and silver takes at least 24 hours to have full effect. Chlorine minium suspention time is 12hrs i think for full effectiveness. Silverion is really good as it lasts indefinately in suspention and the annodes last on average 2 years + on a ship so for a domestic system will last a long time. Only down side is the owner would have to be taught how to work the system though that aint difficult its just varying the current for the flow throught the sterilizer when filling the tank.
Carbon filters are really good and remove most things and bad taste from the water supply.
Kayos
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That has been my idea from the start and will be proposed again today
We have a good spring well at home & it supplied a lot of local folk with drinking water for years, including ourselves. But we had to stop using it as it became contaminated & gave us stomach problems, probably due to the increasing use of slurry & fertiliser in the fields beside it!
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Our local authority used to offer free water tests, then this was changed to free water tests for those with children under 11, this has now been withdrawn altogether and all water tests are chargeable.
Another victim of the cut backs.
No another victim of greed. They deliberately cut frontline services so they can beg for more cash. Have the civil servants taken a pay cut? Have they stopped wasting money like water?
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Yeah we have a UV system a carbon filter and a pleated filter ...and the water tastes great and is crystal clear ...the UV lamp should last for 9000 hours I think, the pleated filter I clean out once a year and the carbon or GAC filter get replaced when I remember...
Our main filter needed replacing every 3 months - so much peat in our area.
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We’re all turning into softies! The first cottage I lived in the water supply came from a drain then into a holding tank. It often ran out due to blockages in the pipe. Most common cause were mice, summer time it was frogs! Stayed there for a good few years, never badly due to the water. Moved to a house on mains water, Ill fairly often.
Only my kitchen tap was filtered - wen you had a bath it was stream water. I used to tie an old sock over the taps to stop the tadpoles coming in!
Yes they cant stand people not being under their thumbs!
Witness the number of roundabouts replaced by traffic lights.
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Should of let them in. They would of eaten all the old skin off your feet!
