When a 20 minute job turns into 3 hours
Most of you know the story if not all. You start on a easy project in this case putting filters in my new filtration system I designed. Three 10-in in diameter water filter housing set up so that not only do they filter the water going into the tank but they filter it coming out of it as well. While it's generally easy enough plumbing it took a little while to design and build it. I installed it on the passenger's side with bang on top of the water pump. Since these guys are 10 in in diameter and need space to be able to turn them I had to install two on the forward bulkhead and one on the aft bulkhead. I personally feel the water tank to make sure everything was okay and of course there was a leak but I fixed that easily enough. Getting to the campsite I knew I was going to have to use that water in the tank so I wanted to put in the actual filters. The way it's set up the first one is a sedimentation filter the second one a carbon block filter and the third one is a ceramic Dalton filter. To fill a tank all you have to do is turn one valve on the driver's side what day and the water goes through those filters across the top of the tank and into the tank at the top. Once you're done filling the tank turn the valve again and you're all set to use the pump. Easy enough. The problem became when I tried to install the Dalton ceramic filter it wouldn't really go in I couldn't get the thing to screw on I tried for 45 minutes kneeling on a asphalt driveway 95° out 85 to 90% humidity no fun. Finally the only thing I could do was to take the top of the housing off the bracket once I did that I was able to see that the Dalton filter wasn't fully seating in to the top I was able to get that the seat and then screwed it in meanwhile I'm out of my pex connections came off where filter number two and filter number three connect at an elbow. Don't know why it came off but I was cranking down on that tubing a little bit so that's probably what it was. It's so tight in the back there that I could not get the PEX tubing back on with a new PEX lock ring. So I had to take the other two filter canister heads off but I didn't have enough space to unscrew them so I had to take the actual brackets off the wall. Once I got that back on and the PEX connection tight then I had to put them all back on again. Three hours after the start of this whole thing and I was able to fill the tank through the filters no leaks! Woohoo. Next it was time to draw from the tank to make sure that the filters were working okay. I went into the coach turn the pump on ran the faucets nothing what the heck? Went back down looked everything over went over to the other side forgot to turn the valve. Turn the valve went back over went back inside ran the faucets again nothing. Wait a little bit and finally some water start trickling out and then a good amount so I guess the filters just had a fill up a bit. It's been two days now and everything's working just fine. I'm sure there's a little bit of reduction in flow then what it was before but now I know that I have filtered water to every outlet in the coach including the toilet. Not that I need a toilet filter to mine you but it's okay maybe you'll leave less rings around there.
So I'm sure many of you can relate I laugh about it now but that day was pretty frustrated. Of course I failed to take a picture of the setup I have to try to rectify that soon and I'll post it. I got rid of the little filter underneath the sink when I redid the countertop so the only thing there now is the kitchen faucet and a soap dispenser. Since I have such a deep sink now I put a remote sink soap dispenser tubing on it so you can put that on any size container and it's easy to change out. Otherwise you would had to contort yourself and reach into a 10-in deep sink to add soap. That wasn't fun.
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