Berkey water filtration company claims the government does not want us to be able to remove viruses from our water.
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Berkey is still battling this in court. I have been using old filters for too long. I wish I could find another source. Any ideas?
if you have an air compressor you can clean out the filters pretty well by submerging them in a bucket of water and blowing air up the plastic tip. don't need a lot of pressure (don't cause the plastic to separate from the ceramic).. keep going till the bubbles are coming out steady, rinse and reuse.
Thank you
What about the white fluoride filters that go in the lower chamber? Back flush them the same way?
I wouldn't. the fluoride filters have aluminum oxide in them and they leak this into your filtered water, one of the excito-toxins you're trying to filter out with the ceramic filters. pick your poison i guess, I have well water so i go without the white screw-on filters. either way these white filters are built to be one-way only and you will ruin them if you back-flow them. (im not impressed with how they work anyway)
Thanks for the info! Yes. This could help me extend the life of my filters. I didn't listen to my gut a few years ago when it told me to stock up on Berkey filters.
Came to ask this. I need to disassemble snd clean but I also have some leaks where you can add the fluoride filters which we don’t have right now. Are there other systems or brands that would work while Berkey fights?
This is my question, too.
Alexapure? I have an AP gravity fed unit but wanted cheaper replacement filters so I bought Berkey filters. Now when I look at AP, one filter is 150. I don't think they were that much before.