5 Quick And Easy DIY Water Filters You Can Make At Home

DIY water filters

Bad water is one of the most annoying problems and it’s dangerous to. Basically you can get sick, water can taste bad and even smell bad. A lot of people experience this problem and it’s even worse if you have a child in your house who always needs clean and safe water without bad bacteria and viruses. After calling departments and services that works with this kind of problems, you understand it’s going to be really expensive.

Why not making water filter at home by yourself? That’s right! It’s easy, a lot cheaper and you can design your filter how you want it. And there is possibility, some of the needed things you already have at your home or garage that makes the process even easier. That’s why I am going to share these five easy methods for solving this problem.

1. Biological Filter

This one is the easiest and cheapest method. Only bad thing about this filter is it’s not going to be the prettiest one, but it does work and its function very well.

Things you are going to need:

• Plastic bottle
• Gravel
• Sand
• Charcoal
• Knife or something to cut the bottle with
• Cloth

Take your bottle, turn it upside down and cut the hole on top of it, that’s where you are going to put your materials in.

After that, follow these steps:

• Take of the cork from the bottle. Then put cloth in cork spot, good pressed. That’s where water will flow through
• From the other end of bottle, put in charcoal. It removes any chemical absorption from water
• Next one going in the bottle is sand. It filters out bacteria and viruses
• On top of sand put gravel. It’s going to filter larger sediment

I can guarantee this filter will work great and it costs maximum of 5-10$.

2. Boiling

As funny as it sounds, but that’s the truth. When you boil water, you remove most of the bacteria and other bad substances. Unless your water is completely bad and with serious problems, this filtration will work fine.

Just remember to heat water until its boiling and you can see bubbles from it, otherwise it could not be cleaned enough and still not drinkable.

3. Solar Water Filtration

You have bad water and at the same time it’s hot and sunny day outside? Then lets combine resting and water filtration together.

Things you are going to need:

• Plastic bottle for water
• Some place which gets hit straight with sun

Sounds simple, right? It sure is. All you have to do is put water in the sun, while at that time you can enjoy the good weather outside by yourself. Let it sit in the heat and sun for at least four hours and it will get filtrated. Just don’t forget to keep the bottle closed.

Of course the water will be warm, but that’s not a problem either. You can simply put it for a while in the fridge until it gets nice and cold or use ice cubes.

4. Coal Water Filter

This one is improvised biological filter. But instead of charcoal you will be using standard coal. If you are outdoors, this is the perfect way for water filtration.

Things you will need for creating this filter:

• Plastic bottle
• Sand
• Coal
• Cloth

Follow these simple steps and soon you will be done:

• Take cork of from the bottle and in that place put piece of cloth pressed in very well
• Turn bottle upside down and cut a hole on the top
• Put coal right in the hole
• At the end you put sand

Remember to make hole big enough to pour in water. This filter will give water cloudy color so it will not look so good. It gives strange taste, which means it’s better to boil it before drinking, but it’s nothing bad about cloudy color, it will not harm you in any way. That’s the only problem with this method, but it’s very simple to make and boiling is nothing hard either.

5. Water Distiller

This could be the best water filtration by this far, it heats and filtrates at the same time. I totally would recommend this method.

Things you will need:

• Glass bottle (Any kind you prefer)
• Piece of plastic tubing (That fits perfectly in the bottle, so there is no space for air to circulate)
• Container to catch condensation (It can be just a standard glass)

When you got everything you need, follow these simple steps and pretty soon you will have filtrated water:

• Pour water you want to filtrate in the glass bottle
• Take the plastic tubing and one end of it press it in the glass bottle but not letting it to touch the water
• Other end of tubing put in the glass or any container you prepared
• Put the bottle on stove, fire on anything that will heat bottom of it
• After a while water will transfer to the container and it will be safe to drink

But be careful, sometimes glass bottles do break from the heat and you don’t want that to happen. I would recommend using bottle with harder glass, so it works well.

Why Creating By Yourself Is Good

The great part about doing it by yourself, you know what’s inside. When you buy filtration systems and pay someone to put it in place, you never know how well the quality is and is it really in the right place. When you create something, you know what material you used and where did you use it. That’s how you can control everything that’s happening with system and filtration process.

I hope these simple steps helped you and you learned something new. Also I hope you can agree, it’s really easy to make water filtration system at home by yourself. Any of five of them, almost doesn’t even cost any money at all, most of requirements is founded in local store or even your house, if you search. And it’s very cheap.

For any question feel free to ask in the comments section and let me know what you think about any of these methods. Share, so more people finds answer to they’re water problems.