OT: Filtering Water

Jim Thompson wrote:

Our neighborhood is getting old, a water main broke a week ago. We
didn't even notice, since the switchover to another path was seamless.

But two days ago, after the repair, when the switch back to that pipe
occurred, we got a slug of very fine sand.

Plugged up several shower heads, but worse, it also plugged up the
grit screen in the washing machine, stopping cold water flow :-(

So I had to pull the washer up out of its recess, take the valve out
and clean its screens... PITA :-(

Anyone familiar with any quick-change-out filters that I could insert,
say in-line with the hoses, to make the job less painful?

...Jim Thompson
Any good hardware store should have a whole-house water filter.
These are about 2" diameter and 8" long filter elements, often in
a clear plastic housing. I never figured out how to change the filters
without a bucket underneath. You'd be AMAZED at the crud they pick up,
even without water main work going on.

I don't know of one specific for washing machine hoses, I suppose you
could adapt the whole house filter with suitable threaded pipe fittings,
but then you'd need 2 units. Also, they probably are not rated to handle
hot water.

Jon

Jim Thompson wrote:

Goggle gives answers, I want opinions from people I've grown to trust.

If you've lived in one place for a few decades you must have a plumber you
trust.

My grandfather was a master carpenter who did mahogany executive offices in
Manhattan, but if he needed tile in his bathroom he hired a tile man. He
believed in specialization.

Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

Goggle gives answers, I want opinions from people I've grown to trust.

If you've lived in one place for a few decades you must have a plumber you
trust.

My grandfather was a master carpenter who did mahogany executive offices in
Manhattan, but if he needed tile in his bathroom he hired a tile man. He
believed in specialization.


I'll be 60 in a couple months, and I've never hired a plumber,
electrician or any other tradesman. I've never failed a building
inspection, or a state mandated punch list when I contracted to do some
work on a new college campus. I've rebuilt car engines, built a
commercial TV station and communications equipment that's in orbit.
I've installed natural gas service to my home, and all the water lines,
from the cutoff box in the right of way. I have used a wood ladder to
climb to the second floor drop to replace the service entrance cable on
a freind's house, then installed the new meter base, and a breaker box.

Specialization is over rated, but understandable for some people.
Some is cultural, some fear of unions and in a few cases, they are
afraid to learn a new type of work.

"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

Goggle gives answers, I want opinions from people I've grown to trust.

If you've lived in one place for a few decades you must have a plumber you
trust.

My grandfather was a master carpenter who did mahogany executive offices in
Manhattan, but if he needed tile in his bathroom he hired a tile man. He
believed in specialization.


I'll be 60 in a couple months, and I've never hired a plumber,
electrician or any other tradesman. I've never failed a building
inspection, or a state mandated punch list when I contracted to do some
work on a new college campus. I've rebuilt car engines, built a
commercial TV station and communications equipment that's in orbit.
I've installed natural gas service to my home, and all the water lines,
from the cutoff box in the right of way. I have used a wood ladder to
climb to the second floor drop to replace the service entrance cable on
a freind's house, then installed the new meter base, and a breaker box.

Specialization is over rated, but understandable for some people.
Some is cultural, some fear of unions and in a few cases, they are
afraid to learn a new type of work.

I've done a hell of a lot of DIY myself, but after a pile of "by the time
you're finished you've learned everything you should have known before you
started" projects, I am starting to look more favorably on just handing
cash to someone who does this for a living. The problem is finding
contractors who are as anal- retentive as me.