Homemade water filter

Now in many cities put in apartments and houses purchased water filters, but if you want to clear, for example, water from a well in the country you can make a homemade water filter. Often water from wells contaminated with various impurities, and to use it for drinking and cooking no cleaning is not possible, in this case, will help water filter, made by hand. A commercially available ready-made filters are high performance, besides a permanent replacement cartridges makes such devices are expensive to operate. In the article below are two methods of water purification homemade filters.



The filter from the bottle


You can use as a makeshift filter simple fixture from scrap materials.





You will need: five-liter plastic bottle, a bucket with a plastic lid, paper napkins and medical cotton wool.



The procedure works: In the plastic cover of the mark in the center of a circle with a diameter equal in size to the inner diameter of the neck of the bottle with thread.


The contour marked the circumference of the drilled holes using the drill, slim drill, and then with a sharp knife cut a circle and protoplasm sharp edges of the hole with a file or sandpaper.




The plastic bottle cut the bottom, flip it and crucified capacity in a previously formed hole, paving for greater reliability the rubber gasket. Thus we get the big funnel.




In the funnel to put the filter material of alternating layers of cotton wool and paper napkins.




This design put on the bucket and fill the funnel with water from a well or wells. After some time, the water to seep through the filtration material and fill the bucket. After that it is ready for use. For the best filtration you can use a layer of activated charcoal or material lutrasil (synthetic non-woven material of polypropylene fibers), folded in several layers.





Homemade carbon filter


Simple homemade carbon filter also has the ability to purify water and make it undrinkable.





You will need: the coal.

The procedure works: Need to find a small piece of wood (preferably birch, but in any case not conifers). It is placed in a metal container, cover and calcined at high heat red-hot. After this procedure produces charcoal. After cooling put in several layers of gauze and get a homemade carbon filter.


This carbon filter can be placed in a large funnel and pour on top of well water. After some time the water will pass through a layer of charcoal and cathartic.




It should be remembered that after 2-3 days of continuous use of a carbon filter will need to be replaced, but because of the great difficulties in its manufacture not, you can take this method in mind.

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