Rain Catcher | It’s All In The Filter

Rain catcher is a form of rain harvesting system, there are many types of rain catcher in the market today as people sees the importance of recycling free rain water for usage. An average American can safe a huge amount of water bills by rain harvesting.

The Filter

The most important thing in any rain barrel is the filtration unit. Without proper filter installed in your rain barrels system water collected are less valuable, it cannot be used for landscaping, laundry, toilet flushing and no portable water demands. If you do not have good filter installed debris will be plentiful and water will become smelly and such water is useless. The tag is “ It’s all about the filter”

There are many kinds of filters in the market, in finding a perfect filters there are a few aspects you need to take into consideration.
· How big is your pipe?
· The type of debris ? Am I looking for filters for big particles or fine debris.
· How easy to assemble?
· How often do I need to clean the filters?

The Types Of Filters

Rainus Filter

It is a squares filter and is installed in the lower section of the downpipe, It is small, very easy to be installed and relatively very reliable. It is also hassle free thus making cleaning easy. There are many section in the filter thus rainwater have to pass through several section before accumulated in the barrel. The upper of the Rainus Filter is has a baffle, where water is calmed in small volume, water will pass thru the sump lip and distributed evenly across the cascade which is where the first filter is located. This cascade will filter out big particles like leaves, and big debris. Below the cascade there lies the second filter. This filter will filter finer debris and can filter out particles the size of 550 microns. The advantage of this filter is that the big particles and debris is ejected out to the front making cleaning particularly easy.

Graf Universal external filter

This is an advance type of filter giving maximum filtration with maximum water quality yield. This is the expensive filter, thus making it very good, and guarantee 95% of water yield if used. Once fitted they are relatively low maintenance due to its special self cleaning technology. This is why this filter costs more. They are TUV safe and tested, it is also childproof as it is lockable.

I hope that by giving you two model to compare, you will know more about the rain catcher filter and you could use both as a comparison when you are choosing for a filter to be installed.