DIY Rainwater Filter System
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- DIY biological rainwater drinking water filter. This filter is made very easily, you need gravel, sand, and charcoal. This is a biological and mechanical filter, in the first month the water will be cleaned mechanically, later, when the microorganisms multiply, it will work biologically as well.
0:00 plan
0:29 biofilter gravel
1:07 biofilter base
1:35 barrel drilling
2:25 fitting the connections
5:02 connect inside the barrel
6:20 water flow
7:14 biofilter material
7:44 biofilter material installation 1
10:45 how to clean sand
11:58 biofilter material installation 2
13:46 water into the biofilter
14:39 bio filter leaking
15:00 lowering the pressure in the system
15:11 sealing the cover
15:43 seal test again
16:12 how to clean water
17:13 external filter
18:51 explanation of the biofilter
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Hello, just wanted to tell you that this is very close to the system my grandpa put in place in our chalet in the mountains of valencia, Spain, in order to filter the rain water that we drank. It was the best water I ever had
Glad to hear that 🙂👍
Why does rain water need to be filtered? Both my plants and animals prefer rain water over the tap. The plants I used to test the tap water died, while the rain water plants thrived. So why do we filter rain water?
@@MrJaxparadize your plants and animals have a different and complex system that handles different germs and bacteria different. Imaging it like this : Animals can drink water from stagnant ponds and live another day. If we drink stagnant water its just about one of the most painful deaths we can experience :)
@@erikanderson5387 why?
@@MrJaxparadize go for it but beware the metals in it
Thank you Robert for teaching these important skills to those of us that have become a little detached from what really matters!
You are very welcome
Great job, Robert! People do this in some rural areas in Brazil where the water supply provided by the government does not reach, and it works very well.
Thanks Miriam, sorry for the late reply 🙂 I want to show people that they can have such a filter when the water from the local supplier (government) is not very good and they can improve it
Miriam, do you live in S. America? If so I have a question. I have heard that China has been investing heavily in Brazil and other countries, buying farmland, radio and print media/television. Have you seen any such occurrence in your experience? In the US , China has been buying every farm they can get as well as other things. I am worried about this causing conflict in the future. Thanks for your time.
@@undernetjack election in October in Brazil and they are using the machine Domiant to count not good and the people in charge not good last news from Brazil 🇧🇷
Robert, this is exactly what I need in our homestead! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in a very clear manner.
Glad it was helpful!
Sir Robert thank you for showing the flaws and not deleting them. You are awesome sir.
You are very welcome
Washing and rinsing the sand, rocks and charcoal several times is a must do before adding to the barrels. Good job.
Thank you for the English explanation. So many creators try to avoid this by using captions or robot voice over. It is so much more of a real and authentic creation when the creator explains with their own voice. It is appreciated.
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Thank you 🙂👍
I watched this entire thing from beginning to end, no pause. You're great at making get to the point videos and a genius with the other things. Thank you for the video. I appreciate it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you 👍🙂
I like such installations!
For a biofilter in my optionion the system needs oxigen.
I installed a similar system to clean a garden pond.
I take some water from the pond flush it over a filter system like yours an give the system oxigen 50l/min. One cycle lasts 2 hours and the water get back in the pond after that time. The next cycle is starting.
The principle is similar - seperate biological and chemical dirt or simple dust to clean it with bacteria and oxigen.
The result is impressive a murky and musty pond become clear in three month.
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Really cool natural system and doesn’t look very expensive. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Great video! I love the detail. I use a rain barrel to water my raised bed garden. I prevent debris from entering the water by using a Gutter Helmet to catch rain from my roof. As a result, I never need to remove debris from my rain barrel!
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Nice vid mate i like the detailed time lapse , this system is probably good enough to filter most tap waters in the world
Congratulations, you have the best video (than even an old lady can follow). Better by far than the instructions by the US state of Minnesota, who used a person who has probably never even seen an rainbarrel in her life.
I love that you showed the curious cat what you were doing 😻 and that curiosity wasn't its demise 👍
Thank you! 😊
Excellent. I'm doing this soon for my off grid cabin. Thank you!
Excellent! 🙂
Drinking water will need boiling first.
I think the flow pipes should enter at the bottom of the barrel not at the top and drop to the bottom. The vertical drop in the pipes in this example are a route for water to bypass the filtration medium. As the gravels and rocks would not form a good seal with the vertical pipe area and lots of water would flow up through this gap route to overflow.
Took me a minute but yes you're 100% correct.
Yes, and no, his system adds water from the top forces it to the bottom of the first barrel, then up the next barrel, then out what you're thinking would remove the Grey drop-down pipe. However, it might have some clogging issues. That is if I understand what your saying correctly
But I guess you could use some sort of flow pipes at the bottom to block out debris too so I mean your way would totally work now that I think about it
@@Razie1201 I think they mean move the downpipe external as apposed to internal so you can monitor any potential leaks or bypasses to the filter?
@@wihdinheim0lol me too. Had to read it 3 times
Excellent work, you show the steps clearly, and it's a great system. Thanks for sharing, from California.
Thanks for watching! 👍🙂
Thank you so much Robert for all your efforts. Thx 4 sharing
This is amazing i was thinking of something like this and you made a video with a way more clear and practical execution thank you for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
You are so clever Robert, well done. 👏👏👏
Thank you so much 😀
This is the exact system I was looking to set up . Thank you for the detailed video.
Very welcome! You can also see my mistakes here czcams.com/video/91H1gTdkxlQ/video.html
Great job Sir! Loved the video. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, will do!
Outstanding! This is the system I will build. I have watched videos, read, and this is the one.
Great job. Thanks for sharing this project with us.
Thanks for watching! 🙂
Hello from the States. Well documented and easy to understand and follow your reasoning.
I also watched the video, and i really admire and inspired, by his method of laying the pipes in the tanks. i thought since the water flows from the buttom to the top, he could've adopt the small smaller smallest order of applying the rocks sand and charcoal. This could have make the system operationally effective.
You are working really fast ;)
Great job
Thanks 😁
Another great project!!! You do such excellent work 👏 Bravo, for a job well done!
Thanks Chandra 👍🙂
You just won me over with showing the cat what you were doing!
Thanks 😺🙀👍
Thank you, Robert, for sharing your knowledge and experience with to us!
My pleasure!
Thankyou, for your time and effort, to make, and share this video, with all other, like minded individuals. Awesome!! Regards from New Zealand.
Thank you too!
Very impressive!
May be I'll built one later ,but I think I'll make with more barrel with one filtre support in each to allow more simple maintien. May be with just gravitation and no pressure (like koy pond filtrer)🤔
Thanks to show us that it was possible and simple!
Thanks 👍🙂
Thank you for this design and step by step detailed process.
You are welcome 😊
Thank you, sir, for the lesson. You may be saving many lives.
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Put faucet to open and close in the bottom of the barrels. Then you can flush out your filter system. And back flush each barrel for cleaning your filter materials. This is very similar to setting up a filter system for fish ponds.
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You can have my subscribe any day!
Love the style and content, and it feels good to see a place with rain again. Phew.
Your filter system will find a way to to my place soon.
Awesome, thank you! 👍🙂
Good job. May I suggest you rinse ALL of the filtering material before you put in the barrels. That will cut down on a lot of the dirt in the second rinse you do in the barrels. Again really good idea. Like the misquote netting.
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If he had done it correctly, he doesn't need to rinse anything. The fact one drum is almost a repeat of the other drum doesn't improve the filtration by any means. Notice that he didn't show the final product. I knew from the start with his design that the final water will still be dirty.
@@alphainfinitum3445im no expert by any stretch, so im thoroughly confused by his design. There seems to be a lot of wishing going on. For example, just because pipes go from here to there is not a guarantee that the water will go. And I don't understand the bottom to top filtration at all.
Cant this be one barrel, gravity fed top to bottom and work the first time?
The mosquito netting was a good idea, but I think I would have sprung for playground sand. And isn't the charcoal supposed to be activated?
Sorry to bug you but I'm confused and no one else seems to be the least bit critical.
Gracias por tomarte el tiempo para hacer y compartir este gran tesoro gracias
Thank you Mr. Robert
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Wow!! I love learning. You are a good teacher.
Thank you! 😃
Fantastic job 👏 thank you for sharing! From Florida US .
Thanks for watching! 👍🙂
Your English is good. Thank you for making this video.
Thank you too!
Only change I would consider is a cut of valve between the 2 barrels & an easy disconnect so you can clean or replace the 2nd barrel with the charcoal with a fresh barrel. This would make it so you didn't have the wait time to recharge the carbon filter half. Just swap the barrels & you're good. Clean the now dirty one & repeat as needed.
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I use a rubber plumbing boot.
Great job and ideas, more people should do such things. 😊
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Very nice setup! Your water will be cleaner than city water lol
I hope so! 🙂👍
Awesome project! I can see that speaking English is not easy for you but I assure you that you did a great job. Got a subscriber!
Thanks and welcome 👍🙂 in the next weeks I will redo the entire filter because I am not satisfied with how it works, you will see a new version
Excelente, Sempre tem água limpa 🚰
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Great job. We all need to learn how to be self suficiente in these times.
Yes we do 👍🙂
Genius ❤!!! Greetings from Gothenburg Sweden. 😊
Thank you very much! 👍🙂
WHEN HE SHOWED HIS CAT THE WORK HES DOING OMG THATS SO CUTTTEEEE
Thank you 😺
Very informative Video 🤗👏👏👏
Gr8 thinking !!! Thank you!!!
My pleasure 😊
Excellent, thank you so much for sharing may God bless you and yours always
You are so welcome, check out the filter mistakes here czcams.com/video/91H1gTdkxlQ/video.html
You are my friend boss, you are doing a great job. I'm looking forward to doing this kind of projects in my place in Kenya. One love and God bless.
You can do it! 👍🙂
Brilliant, I really enjoyed this
Glad you enjoyed it
Gonna make one of these when I get home to the new farm!
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really clever and impressive station you have :) keep going friend !!!
thanks very informative
Excelente!
Abraços do Brasil 🇧🇷
An excellent video sir, very helpful info informative thank you 😊
My pleasure 👍🙂
Very well done sir!! 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you liked it!
Good video. Real good information. Have a nice day.
Thank you! Job well done!😀
Thank you too!
Very good my friend! I’m now so this to. I look into your video for dis information. Thanknyoj
Genius! Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome! 🙂
Good 👍. Liked. Will do. Thank you from India.
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Good job, thank you Robert 👍
Very welcome
So Informative and helpful information. I can make in my home to harvest rain and reduce flow direct into the land
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Great job. I love this I will try this method when I am able to one day
You can do it! Thanks 🙂
@@klerobi1 Thank you. I have a plot of land am collecting material to build a house for my family like my grandpa did for us but it is very slow right now as I am disabled and can't work very well and my wife is very sick with an immune system disease called ankylosing spondylitis and she is only 34 years old so it is very difficult to leave home... we have determined that the house we live in is the reason why she is sick as it is over 100 years old and not up to date on things especially healthy things and we live next to a factory that makes fiberglass parts and the fumes are terrible.
So being we live only on my disability we cant afford to move anywhere else as the rent would be too high and so would the cost of moving. but if I can get the items that I need then we will be in the country and my wife will be on the right track to recovery 🙏🏽
You could use a gravity double filter instead with the same filter ingredients.
Saves the pump electricity as well as prevents spillage/leakage.
water barrel bomb with gravel sharpnel if pressure builds up too
That system is very close to the one my grandfather had for his shallow well water. His cylinders were brick and mortar. His was bigger 24 inches, I think that would about 61cm across and 48 inches deep. Thanks for sharing.
I have suggestion for You ...
make a FilterNet/Mosqito Net bag place in Berrel and fill with material and Close it with any rope or Zip tai, So when you want to clean your filter it will lot more easy to Clean , You only have to Pull Net Bag , No Need to Uninstal whole system , and Its easy to Handle all gravel will not get mixed .. I hope you Understand What i want to say .. all The Best 👍👍
A great video sir,
Regards from South Africa
Thank you 🙂👍
If you rotated the outlets in the barrels to show upwards, no preasure would build up because the water can flow naturally and doesn't have to be pushed through. other than that I liked everything about this filter : )
thank you sir its very good
Thank you very much
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Good even ice is Good to store year out..great work
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Thank you for sharing! =)
nice set up. in case it is potable there are a couple of things that made me cringe a bit (other than plastic to metal threads). Are you using galvanised fittings purely for the tapered thread? what kind of silicone are you using?
Love how he shows his kitty the tanks.
Thanks 🙂
Just a tip, next time you do this, orient the cinderblocks with the holes facing up, they are designed to be used this way and are much stronger.
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That's good to know! Thanks!
Hello Sir, great job . Take care your self and be safe and healthy.
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Thank you very much for watching the videos!!! 👍🙂
Good job! Thanks!
Thank you too!
Thank you very much 😊
You're welcome 😊
Thank you
You're welcome
Nice video!
Thanks for the visit
NICE JOB!!!
Thanks! 🙂👍
thank you so much for the info!! I did not see an update anywhere, how did the water test go? are you able to drink it after this or are there more steps to making it drinkable? if it is drinkable, is it because of the microorganisms that have developed that help to make it safe to drink?
awesome job
Thanks for the visit
Interisting,broo.Iam from Malaysia.
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great job Thanks
Thank you too!
great work
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Solid design. 1 question, what's the plan for silt draining. If you had a hose fitting at the bottom of the barrels, you could flush them fairly readily.
thank you Mr. Robert for sharing this knowledge with us ... it's very useful for the coming days
You are very welcome 🙂👍
THANKS
You're welcome!
Great Job Robert. I have a question, though, do you think youd need a UV sustem for e-coli and such?
Hello! In the Appalachians here. There are many people in my area with old family homes from the 1800s like mine. Mine is 20 feet deep and 8 foot diameter at the bottom and 12 feet at the top. It holds approximately 7000 gallons.
I do not have a filter other than a piece of screen covering a barrel at the top to catch leaf litter and the foot valve is 14 inches above the bottom to keep from sucking up the fine silt from the bottom. If I am home when the rain starts I will turn the water out for the first 15 minutes of the rain to clear the roof of debris and bird poop. My family has used the water from it for all household uses including drinking with no additional filtering for 4 generations. I clean and repair the cement lining once a year using a stiff broom to remove the silt from the walls and rinse it with clean water followed by a clorox rinse before patching and refilling it. The roof is tin not shingles. I would never drink water from a roof with shingles as they contain petroleum products which are toxic.
I was told it was unsafe to drink the water from my cistern without a filter system in place by the health department so I tried the method described in the video. If you get a rain heavier than a light shower most of the water will back up and overflow the barrel system very quickly wasting most of the water. A filter process after the water enters the cistern wastes much less water.
Since my family has drunk the water for generations without getting sick I have opted not to use it. This could be because of acquired tolerances to local pathogens or maybe I'm in a cleaner area where such pathogens do not exist. That being said, if you try drinking water without some kind of filtering you may become ill and infants and small children should not consume such water.
Thank you for your extensive comment 👍🙂
Awesome!! Maybe a sump tank before the filters? You'd be able to collect all the leaves and smaller particles coming from the roof before they enter the filtration system. I'm really gonna try this collection system soon. Thanks for sharing
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Sangat menginspirasi dan memberi pengetahuan
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If all you have is galvanized fittings, use them, but if you can get PVC or other safe plastic fittings, this would be preferable. I have seen similar systems in the Caribbean, but it's hard to get people to use them since the water supply is so contaminated. Great concept.
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I wouldn't use pvc, I would use cpvc. It's what is used for drinking water or pet is better too.
@@williammetzo5407 cpvc is also more Heat and UV resistant and it won't become brittle under pressure
The level of inlet and outlet may have brought more complications. Having the outlet height lower than the inlet would solve the problem.
First run you have to give the system time to fill out and eventually run smoothly.
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That is just what I was thinking.