How often do you change the water filter

A question from a client

We installed a water filter, I want to know how often to change the water filter.

Answer

Finding clean, drinkable water is becoming increasingly difficult. A person by his activities strongly pollutes both surface and ground waters. A century ago, water could be drunk from a river or lake, now even deep artesian wells offer moisture of mediocre quality, supersaturated with salts of heavy metals and carbonates. The only way out of the current environmental situation for an ordinary user is to install an individual treatment system.

How to tell if you have bad water
If you bought a plot in a new suburban village, and there are no communications there yet. And the developer himself often proposes to drill an individual well. Then you can easily get into a situation where the water there turns out to be unfit for drinking. In addition, the territories of new dacha cooperatives are being developed relatively slowly, which means that there will be no neighbors who could tell you about the quality of the water. The only reliable way to call specialists who will carry out a water intake, find out at what depth it lies, and what quality (exact chemical composition).

The fence can be made by ecologists or a team of geologists-drillers, but chemical analysis is done by both certified third-party laboratories and organizations that supply water filtering systems. Moreover, the latter will be able to offer the analysis for free. These experts and advice will provide on the ideal choice of a filter for your needs. Only after receiving the data can you confidently say whether you need a filter in your house and what it should protect you from.

What to do if you have poor water in the area
How often do you change the water filter?Most often, water from wells and even a centralized water supply system in small towns and summer cottages is oversaturated with carbonates (the so-called hard water) and iron varieties (monovalent or bivalent). Pollution with pesticides (if there are farmlands nearby) and heavy metals (industrial enterprises of the extractive industry) are also frequent.

In large cities with a centralized water supply, it is easier for the user, where the Gor vodokanal is responsible for the quality of water in the networks and, as a rule, offers water of an acceptable quality that meets the standards. In extreme cases, people who are especially sensitive to water quality can simply buy an individual filter there (of any, even a jug type) and drink filtered water. Or use bottled, imported water from deep wells, purified for drinking. Outside the city there are more problems with this.

There are many filter systems, but systems based on ion exchange resins are considered the most reliable. They work for a very long time from one bookmark and are not demanding to repair.

Filters for people and machines
Column-type devices offered by ProfWater are designed for different intensity of water use and filtration from different compounds. But they have one thing in common – the principle of durability and ease of maintenance.

As a rule, such systems can operate on one tab of the filter medium for up to 5, or even 6 years in a row. In addition, they allow you to fully use water, both for drinking and technical needs (heating, washing, washing dishes).

It is important to remember that not only people need clean water, but also machines. For example, a high content of carbonates and iron in water leads to the formation of rust and scale, which eventually disable heating elements and various shut-off valves (taps, safety valves). So, if your boiler or boiler began to consume more gas or electricity, then the only fault is scale, which does not allow heat to pass through and makes the device work at exorbitant loads (which leads to its rapid failure).

Long-term use of polluted water also affects a person, causing oncology, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and respiratory organs.

What fillings are used in column filter systems
How often do you change the water filter?Depending on the specific type of pollution, ProfWater equips its filters with:

serves as ion-exchange resins (for purification from carbonates) for more than 5 years;
iron-removing materials, last up to 5-6 years;
activated coconut charcoal – lasts a maximum of 4 years;
quartz sand (for cleaning from biological threats, turbidity).
multifunctional backfills, including various substances (they serve slightly less than other types of filters).
Any filter used in a column water treatment system needs to be completely replaced after a few years.

How often do you need to change the filter?
ProfWater systems operate from one load for literally 7-8 years. But they need to be serviced periodically, as indicated in the manufacturer’s instructions. The procedure is simple, but it takes time. It is necessary to rinse the filter medium with a solution of sodium chloride. The procedure allows you to quickly restore the ability of the material to purify water.

It is important to remember that the salt must always be in the brine tank. During the regeneration process, it will be fed in portions into the cylinder. The procedure for restoring the filtering reagent allows you to reuse the same filter bed (3-8 years in a row, depending on the aqualat water purifier intensity of water consumption and the degree of pollution). But it is important to remember that over time, the ability of the ion-exchange resin is lost, and it softens the water (deprives it of scale) less and less. After 7-8 years of use, the cation bedding must be disposed of.

Column-type filter to provide highly effective disinfection and water purification at high water consumption for a long time from one filling of filtering substances.

Remember to properly fill the filter with filter materials. For example, ion-exchange resin should be filled up to a maximum of 75% of the total volume of the column, and backfills of other types with a layer not exceeding 1 meter. Otherwise, they will not shake well and clean up during backwash.