At the time of writing (April 2023) a 23Lt Berkey water filter will set you back £465in the UK. Now, that is a lot of money to find, especially with everything else costing a fortune at the moment.
What if I told you, you could make a similar filter in under an hour for around £50?
Well, that is what this post is all about.
We are living in a time when we cannot trust our Government. They are poisoning our air, our food, our medicines and our water.
We need an abundant supply of clean drinking water. You can go weeks without food, but deprive your body of water for a couple of days, and you will start to suffer.
With this filter, you can produce, 23lts of clean, drinking water, in about 8 hours. Fill it before you go to bed, and you will wake up to safe water for you, your family and your pets.
You are going to need a couple of water filter candles, just like the ones used in the Berkey water filters.
The ones I used are from a UK company call Wrekin Water Softeners. They produce very economical filter candles that also filter out 'Fluoride'.
These will cost you £42 as of April 2023 including VAT and delivery.
You will also need a tap that will bolt through the side of a bucket. The ones used for water butts will do. I used this one from eBay.
The last thing you will need is a couple of 25Lt, food grade buckets with lids. Look on Facebook marketplace or similar for fermentation buckets used in Home Brew. Some of these come with a tap fitted.
The only tools you will need are, a drill and some drill bits. I recommend the 'step' drill bits as they leave a really clean hole in the plastic buckets, and you can easily drill the hole the correct size without having to swap drill bits. You can get these from any local tool store or on eBay.
Make sure your buckets are nice and clean. Take one of the buckets and put it upside down on a flat surface like a table. Place one of the lids, upside down, on top of the upturned bucket. We are going to drill two holes through the lid and through the bottom of the upturned bucket.
Make each of these holes about halfway from the centre of the lid to the rim. The holes need to be just big enough for the stem of the filter candle to fit through.
Now, remove the wing nut from the filter candle, making sure to leave the rubber washer in place, and push the stem of the filter candle through the hole from the inside of the bucket, through the lid, and screw the wing nut on finger tight. Do not over tighten this.
Do this for both filter candles, and you should end up with something that looks like this.
That is the main part of the project done. All we need to do now is fit the tap.
Place the second bucket the right way up on a flat surface. Offer up the tap so that no part of the tap is below the bottom of the bucket, and mark where to drill the hole. We don't want the tap to protrude below the bottom of the bucket because it might snap off if you were to put the bucket on the floor for cleaning etc.
Drill the hole for the tap and screw the tap into place, finger tight again. You should have a washer on the inside, and the outside of the bucket. If you only have one washer, then make sure it is on the inside of the bucket. You can see the washers in red in these photos.
It is also a good idea to drill a hole near the very top of the bucket to allow air into the bucket as the water drains out through the tap. It will still work without this, but flow through the tap could be very slow.
Now all you need to do is put the bucket with the filters, on top of the bucket with the tap and fill it with water. The first time you fill it, you should discard the water, as it can contain dust and particles from the manufacture of the filter.
After that, you can have nice, clean drinking water for about a year before the filters need replacing.
You may find that the water flow through the filters will slow down after a while. All you need to do, in this instance, is remove each of the filters and clean them with a soft brush under the cold tap, and they will start working again.
It is recommended, that you replace the filters, about once a year.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.
Shed The State.
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