RV water filters

[MemoriesByTheMile]

Never heard of water fill stations. Will have to look into this.

We’ve used water bottle fill stations for a few years now. Everywhere from VA, down to FL, Midwest states, OR, WA, NV, AZ, UT.

Usually we can find one at a grocery store, including super Walmart. Prices have ranged from $0.35 to $0.60 a gallon. Past few months most all of them were $0.50.

Some stations are coin operated. Others do not have coins but you pay the cashier after. All are self serve.

 

[team bradfield]

Illinois, we have them in most grocery stores

 

[JRS]

We use a 1 micron sediment filter prior to a 16K water softener (which in my opinion is important) and then a 1 micron carbon filter post the softener. This seems to work for us but there's areas (primarily in the southwest including one location we visit often in CO) were bottled water is a must.

 

[CaptainGizmo]

I build a 3-Stage water filter, with 5/1/0.5 micron filters, top-grade housings, and all quick-connect fittings. This runs to a Double Water Softener.

I've sold about a dozen of these in the past months. In my research and with the help of others, I don't feel there's a better system out there.

If you'd like to see it's design, I've created a video to show the system I use:

 

[rvkev]

Quite an impressive setup Captain Gizmo. I built similar for filtering vegetable oil. I filtered vegetable oil at slightly over 2 pounds pressure. Those filters are nominal and will leak. I even used additional seals on the ends of the filters inside the housing.

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Your taste buds should let you know if the system is working. You can also use the Total Dissolved Meter as a guideline.

 

[TheLooks]

Up to this point we only drink bottled water and have only recently had a single home style filter with a carbon element to help keep things out of the water lines. We don't use the onboard 90 gallons of fresh water tanks. That may change if we travel out West as desired. But I recently picked up a new Clearsource triple filter system for less then I could get it at dealer cost. It claims to filter out virus's even....We shall see what it does.

 

[Kevin D Pem]

Up to this point we only drink bottled water and have only recently had a single home style filter with a carbon element to help keep things out of the water lines. We don't use the onboard 90 gallons of fresh water tanks. That may change if we travel out West as desired. But I recently picked up a new Clearsource triple filter system for less then I could get it at dealer cost. It claims to filter out virus's even....We shall see what it does.

Just curious, do you read the label on the bottled water you buy?
When water was hard to find, my friend asked if I would pick some distilled water up for him., sure said I, no problem!!!!

Short story long, I stopped at 3 stores before I found distilled water I didn't reject!!! Read the labels and come back knowing why I rejected it, if you're interested!

RO is the only stuff I personally buy ( I agitate it to wake it back up), much of the drinking water is simply tapwater. The hardest poison to remove from water is fluoride. RO removes 95% . Bone char filters offer sacricial calcium, so you don't have your bones weaken( you should be able to find one to fit in your clear choice canister), it is not a filter, but a cartridge.

Look! I get it! Really I do! 2 and A have years ago, I laughed at people that told me the stuff I am telling you! Oh well!!!

 

[TheLooks]

To be absolutely honest, I don't drink water at all. But what do you suppose the water in food, other beverages, etc. has in it? Unless you have a major test facility and own your own source of water, you can't be certain about its content. I grew up in an area that is known for high arsenic content. I set here with a Kirkland Kombucha and it is made with filtered water.....how filtered? And the beer I had this afternoon is made where? Where does one draw the line?

 

[Kevin D Pem]

To be absolutely honest, I don't drink water at all. But what do you suppose the water in food, other beverages, etc. has in it? Unless you have a major test facility and own your own source of water, you can't be certain about its content. I grew up in an area that is known for high arsenic content. I set here with a Kirkland Kombucha and it is made with filtered water.....how filtered? And the beer I had this afternoon is made where? Where does one draw the line?

Ahhh! I draw the line at the organic farm! I have done enough research to draw the line in the sand. Guess you figured that out when I was reading the label on the water I bought for my friend.

You wouldn't be interested in putting Borax in your water to detox would you???

 

[TheLooks]

I would gladly drink the water from the well back in Maine that I grew up drinking....it might be full of arsenic. We had two wells, one was a giant hand dug stoned up well on the front yard that the salt from the roads ruined, and the other was a boiling spring 300+ yards back into the woods that my father dug out with a backhoe and put 15 ft of concrete tile down in back in the 60's. We had a small trailer park and the state routinely failed the water for coliform bacteria. Not sure where it came from because there was not another living soul or septic sytem for many miles in most directions. Red squirrels I guess, and deer. Water quality is an interesting subject, and what some think is quality is another subject.

 

[mjeds]

Never heard of water fill stations. Will have to look into this.

South West they are a thing

Illinois, we have them in most grocery stores

in my area of CA we have water "stores" that is all they sell is water to refill water 2.5 and 5-gal bottles.

also many of the laundry mats have water refill stations in them.

 

[CaptainGizmo]

Thought some of you may be interested to see what my friend just sent me after 2 weeks at Hearthside, which is on a well.

He's using the 3-stage and Softener system I built for him, and the filter shown is the first in-line...a 5 micron! Yikes!

Needless to say, he's sure happy to have the filter system up there. Funny, cuz we normally think about how "hard" the water is west of the Rockies, but in this case, it's well water that's got some stuff you don't want running through your coach...let alone body.

 

[MemoriesByTheMile]

We like the clear canisters for this reason, easy visual check to know when the filter needs to be changed.

 

[Joe Hogan]

I've also been eyeing an external filtering system. Looking for somethig compact and not too heavy. As we are NOT full time, we can use something with less overall volume, and maybe less filter capacity.

Thinking about this one

BLU TECHNOLOGY

RV Water Filters System

www.amazon.com

 

[Neal]

Thought some of you may be interested to see what my friend just sent me after 2 weeks at Hearthside, which is on a well.

He's using the 3-stage and Softener system I built for him, and the filter shown is the first in-line...a 5 micron! Yikes!

Needless to say, he's sure happy to have the filter system up there. Funny, cuz we normally think about how "hard" the water is west of the Rockies, but in this case, it's well water that's got some stuff you don't want running through your coach...let alone body.

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I'm scared to look. I'm in the new section and thought I was safe. Lost water this morning so went out to check things. Got the spigot working again and sure enough brown yuck came out. I'm triple filtered but I'm guessing at the end of this stay filters are going in the trash. I am not feeling it for this place!

 

[CaptainGizmo]

I'm scared to look. I'm in the new section and thought I was safe. Lost water this morning so went out to check things. Got the spigot working again and sure enough brown yuck came out. I'm triple filtered but I'm guessing at the end of this stay filters are going in the trash. I am not feeling it for this place!

Neal, doubt you'll even make it to the end without a change of cartridges! My buddy is getting all sorts of sediment, noticeable in just 2 weeks!

We're making sure he has a set of 5m/1m/0.5m cartridges on hand at all times.

Also, you'll need to REGEN your Softener Tank ASAP! That well water is pretty hard as well as being dirty.

 

[DennisT]

X2 on checking the softener.

We have been at our current campground in Ohio, that has well water, since May.

Making it about a month between regen of the 16k water softener we use.

I check it weekly with the test strip kit we have.

Lots of crud in the water but we are triple filtered, then softener, then house filter.

 

[Joe Hogan]

Looks like the larger capacity triple filters are necessary even for relatively short stays with spare filters just in case. We've been lucky so far...

 

[Neal]

I'm using a dual canister setup. Bought a more expensive one from a dedicted RV water filter supplier, didn't like it. This one I love, fittings compatible with Newmar's setup. I then use one of the camco filters at the spigot for first line of defense. Water in the coach is clean, the best test is Elli's water bowl

I am not seeing hardwater here at Hearthside Grove, therefore, no water softener inline.

Amazon product ASIN B07GBZ83HH
Amazon product ASIN B00VX1UK1Y

 

[CaptainGizmo]

I'm using a dual canister setup. Bought a more expensive one from a dedicted RV water filter supplier, didn't like it. This one I love, fittings compatible with Newmar's setup. I then use one of the camco filters at the spigot for first line of defense. Water in the coach is clean, the best test is Elli's water bowl

I am not seeing hardwater here at Hearthside Grove, therefore, no water softener inline.

Amazon product ASIN B07GBZ83HH
Amazon product ASIN B00VX1UK1Y

Neal,

That 2-stage is good, and maybe you're running the CAMCO as a pre-filter, which is not terrible but can still cause issues.


BUT...just in case...and for others...
(I KNOW I'll take flak for this...but here goes)

I STRONGLY discourage using the Camco filter!!! Reasons being, one... it's ONLY a 20micron filter. (FYI, I panicked when I read the description in Amazon that said it was a 100-micron!! Talk about a typo! yikes) This is even worse than what I thought they were which is 10micron.

And two... it's way too small for a large coach's water demands and, with dirty water supplies, will plug up in as little as 2 weeks. This is exactly what happened down in Indio!

I, like many, relied on the CAMCO until I found the above deficiencies.