Drinking Rain Water (How We Are Filtering Rainwater)

tighten this one [Music] so to get started on our water system the first thing we had to do is dig a hole for our above ground cistern now we're burying our above ground cistern about a foot and a half to two feet in the ground just to kind of help protect it against freezing it does get really cold up here and it is an above ground cistern however where we live now has a 5 000 gallon tank above ground and it only had a little bit of floating ice in it during the winter and everything else was fine so we're gonna give it a go it's not going to be our permanent tank eventually we'd like to have a 16 000 gallon tank but that's coming soon so we had to dig that hole for the cistern and then dig the hole for our pipe to go into our house because that's also going to be underground we lined the bottom of the hole with cinders and i just packed it down by walking over it but it was a good two inches to two and a half to three inches thick then we put the three thousand gallon tank in the hole and i use the excavator a little bit to kind of move it around and get it placed right [Music] now we're coming out of the cistern with a one and a quarter inch pvc we're using one and a quarter inch because that's the size inlet of our well pump we did have to make this 90 degree turn because there was a rock right in front of the outlet of the cistern that we couldn't get through and then we just extended this all the way over and into our house we had placed these four inch pvc uh pieces through our icfs when we poured the foundation and this one was for our water system so we just placed it right through that tube okay guys today we're going to be working on our water system hopefully finishing up uh all the plumbing for the filters we're gonna come in from our well pump into a pressure tank that's down the crawl space right now and then from that pressure tank we're gonna go out of the pressure tank into our first filter which is just a sediment filter so it's a reusable sediment filter you can just let all the water and drain all the sediment at the bottom this way and you can also if you need to unscrew the top here and clean it out that way this is a 125 micron filter so it filters particles 125 microns and larger out so we're going to go from this filter this sediment filter into this guy which is going to house our second sediment filter this one's going to house a 25 micron filter it looks like this and it just sits right inside this blue cylinder you can see this is the inlet goes in through all the sides and then out through the center so it just drops on right like there and screws back down after we go in our 25 micron filter we go down to a 5 micron filter after the 5 micron filter we're going to two separate carbon filters and then finally into a uv light so this is all going to take up a bit of space the idea is to let get a piece of plywood much like our makeshift countertops about 16 inches tall and maybe four foot long or so and try to get all these filters onto that one piece of plywood that's four foot long i'll melt one down four to go okay after i got all the brackets on i then went through and added all of our adapters on all of our filter housings have one inch inlets and outlets that are threaded so i just use a standard threaded one inch two slip one inch pvc adapter and then i'm gonna go through later and attach them all with about a three inch or four inch piece of pvc in between [Music] do [Music] okay [Music] so the next thing we need to do is assemble this this comes out of the pressure tank so we'll keep that i can't really get these off either this is our pressure switch that's going to go on top of here we have a check valve and then we have a pressure gauge so we can see the current so this is our pressure tank t i was really intimidated about building this um and i almost bought one online that was pre-assembled however i just went to the store and kind of went for it it's really not that complicated all you need is your pressure switch a pressure gauge i something to drain the system with which is our little hose spigot a check valve and then usually have a pressure relief but we're just going to plug that for now it's really not that hard to assemble you just put the pressure switch and the pressure gauge on the top you put your spigot and the pressure relief valve on the front and then right after your well pump you put your check valve and then on the other side you just put whatever fitting you need to go into your system so don't be intimidated by it we're using this concrete pad that came with our mini split system as a base because it'll fit down here and then we don't have to pour concrete down here and we'll pour a new concrete pad outside where the mini split goes i do want to make a little note here that's a 32 gallon pressure tank we are planning on adding a second 32 gallon pressure tank next to it eventually but this is going to get us started for now the next thing we did is we screwed that 16 inch wide by four foot piece of plywood up to our icfs the only reason we had the plywood is because the brackets for our housings don't sit exactly where those little plastic stud things are for the icfs so we screwed them into the plywood and the plywood screwed into the icf i'll kind of talk about the reason we plumbed it the way we did a little later but we do have a valve there that way we can stop any incoming water into the system if needed and then now we're just installing our filters like i said before we have two sediment filters one is 125 microns the next one's 20 microns then 5 microns and then the one chelsea is working on right now and i will be in a second those are our carbon filters you may think having three sediment filters is a little bit overkill but if we just went straight to a five micron filter it would clog up really quick so stepping down will hopefully have us not changing filters as often and this one to clean it we just do that just get a little bucket and drop all the sediment out of it after all of our sediment and carbon filters is our uv light now this is just because we're collecting rainwater off the roof it's going to kill any bacteria or germs in there for us i had to angle it just to come out of the filters it just made it a little easier and i didn't have to use as many fittings and then it slopes down to the bottom and we're going to come out of this when we come out of this light we're going to add another valve so we can turn off the water to our house after the filters and then we go into a tee one of those outlets from the tee is going to go to the cold water to our entire house and then the other outlet from the tea is going to go to the hot water heater is it filtering it oh man it's filtering it we have before we turned on the pump to actually pressurize all the filters in our house we open the valves and let everything kind of just gravity feed in that way we had our pump primed and we did have some water already in the filters and in our lines and then i just want to make a note that i know the wiring you're about to see in the next clip is a little sketchy but right now we're running the pump off of our generator so this is just all temporary wiring to test it so this is a little sketchy i'm really nervous when i plug these in the pump should start that valve is on outside right let's turn this valve off for now just to compartmentalize things we should pump water into here and we should be able to see the pressure go up to around 50 or 60 psi and then the pump should turn off you ready no oh i didn't like that oh we're at 60 50 60 psi right now why no way there's no way there's no way yeah immediately goes down okay stress again wait hold on not compartmentalizing things jackson sorry are you ready that's because there's like air in the system look at that over there just because it's filling the rest of that up [Music] [Applause] it's getting all it's purging all the air out of the system we hit that one we should hit this one at 60 psi oh we're leaking water we're right here do you see our big wrench somewhere so if i slowly so and this should turn back on at 40 psi oh god yeah open it [Music] okay cool we have pressurized water that's super cool isn't it yeah however when we went back downstairs we found a leak see all that it's not leaking a considerable amount but it's like definitely dripping like you if you watch it for a minute price drip so right there it goes it just dripped right yep again so that's definitely something we need to figure out so um we can like tighten this up okay that was camera [Applause] that blue literally here here's a bucket [Applause] okay that's probably why i was leaking okay let's go 60 psi of water strain to the eyeball change the eyeballs so i want to address something real quick and it's how we plumbed this section of the filter section of our water system so a lot of people will have a t that comes in right here to goes up and a couple valves and then a pipe that goes all the way over and bypasses all of the filters so we'll have another pipe running across um and that's good for a couple reasons one if you for some reason if something in here breaks and you can't get to it to fix it right away or whatever you can just bypass the whole filter system however since we're doing rain water and we have to filter all of our water i didn't do that because if something here breaks we have to fix it or we're not gonna have water i'm not gonna put all the sediment and all the sediment and that type of stuff into just our fixtures so we're filtering everything when we need to change a filter it's going to hurt us a little bit we can turn it off here and then we'll shut off all the incoming water but obviously we'll have a valve on the other side to be able to shut off the other side um that way we don't have all of the water coming back in and leaking in as we take this off but when we take out this big blue housing we're gonna have well over a gallon of water in here that we're gonna have to do something with so as long as that's shut off and that shut off we should have a little bit of a vacuum be able to pop this off real quick maybe have a bucket down here dump it in the bucket change the filter pop it in real quick with the least amount of spillage possible but yeah so that's why we didn't plum it around because i don't want the option to bypass the filters i don't want any of the sediment or crud coming off of the roof or in the rain water to go into our hot water heater or our faucets or a fridge or anything like that so thanks for watching guys i hope you enjoyed this video subscribe if you haven't already and if you have any questions about our system leave a comment down below and i will get back to you also i'm going to leave a link to all of the products we used in the description and then give us a like if you enjoyed this video and once again 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Length: 16min 53sec (1013 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 10 2020