I’ve had my Big Berkey for more than twenty-five years. It’s packed in heavy poly and sealed with duct tape. I have an extra set of filters similarly packed. I break it out every year or so, run a few fills of water through it, dry out the filters and pack it back up.
Mrs. Ancroidubh has a friend who keeps one on the kitchen counter.
This is a wake-up for me to get another set of filters.
BTW, the Berkefeld filter history goes back to 1835 when Queen Victoria asked the Doulton pottery works to make a ceramic water filter because she was rightly afraid of cholera.
In 1998, New Millennium Concepts made a distribution deal for the USA with BB. NMC pushed the development of the “Black Berkey” filter candle.
My own history with BB goes back to the 1990s living in Florida. Contaminated municipal water supplies are a real danger in the aftermath of hurricanes and tornados. I bought mine from an imported I no longer remember.
Pond water —> coarse filter to strain out the big chunks —> British Berkefeld —> six drops per gallon of plain Clorox == safe drinking water!
I’ve had my Big Berkey for more than twenty-five years. It’s packed in heavy poly and sealed with duct tape. I have an extra set of filters similarly packed. I break it out every year or so, run a few fills of water through it, dry out the filters and pack it back up.
Mrs. Ancroidubh has a friend who keeps one on the kitchen counter.
This is a wake-up for me to get another set of filters.
BTW, the Berkefeld filter history goes back to 1835 when Queen Victoria asked the Doulton pottery works to make a ceramic water filter because she was rightly afraid of cholera.
In 1998, New Millennium Concepts made a distribution deal for the USA with BB. NMC pushed the development of the “Black Berkey” filter candle.
My own history with BB goes back to the 1990s living in Florida. Contaminated municipal water supplies are a real danger in the aftermath of hurricanes and tornados. I bought mine from an imported I no longer remember.
Pond water —> coarse filter to strain out the big chunks —> British Berkefeld —> six drops per gallon of plain Clorox == safe drinking water!