Fade to black
Oct. 12th, 2020 10:20![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillSo of course the water was out again by the time I brushed my teeth before bed.
A peek at the filter housing this morning told me why: inside the clear plastic, it's simply black. I was naive to think I could carve out a big chunk of mud inside the screen and hook it right up to the house again. So I get to go up, clear the screen, siphon the water box, and then flush the pipes thoroughly, hoping we don't get another mudslide in the screen later.
I think, in future, I will plan on having the water off for 24 hours after a cleaning, and simply leave the screen dumping directly into the stream. Of course, I hope that in future there will be less and less silt to manage...
I should pick up some more replacement filter cartridges (I have one left). So much for a six-month cartridge life... this one lasted about ten hours.
A peek at the filter housing this morning told me why: inside the clear plastic, it's simply black. I was naive to think I could carve out a big chunk of mud inside the screen and hook it right up to the house again. So I get to go up, clear the screen, siphon the water box, and then flush the pipes thoroughly, hoping we don't get another mudslide in the screen later.
I think, in future, I will plan on having the water off for 24 hours after a cleaning, and simply leave the screen dumping directly into the stream. Of course, I hope that in future there will be less and less silt to manage...
I should pick up some more replacement filter cartridges (I have one left). So much for a six-month cartridge life... this one lasted about ten hours.