Water Filter Installation

!±8± Water Filter Installation

Clean Kitchen Water is a Must
Wouldn't it be nice to have clean and good tasting water readily available from your kitchen faucet. One way is to install a under the counter water filtration system that can be designed to fit your needs providing you with water you can readily drink and cook with confidence.

Choose the right filtration system that will serve your needs.
This can be accomplished by taking a water sample and having it analyzed by a certified water evaluation company. Different localities have unique water supply systems. You may have a high chemical content or bacteria count that you need to address that others do not. You may find a water filter manufacture that will offer to design a system based on your water test results for you but be aware they will be looking for you to purchase a system from them.

Water filter installation instructions
Your system will come with installation instructions and will guide you through the installation process. It will specify what tools you will need to do the installation. It should be said that this blog recommends you to use a certified plumber from your area, plumbing can be difficult and should be installed by a professional.

Tools you will need

1. screw driver flat heat and PhillIPS
2. Wrench
3. small pair of plumbers pliers
4. Tape Measure
5. proper plumbing fittings needed
6. plumbing sealant or Teflon tape

Step 1
Shut off the cold water pipe that feeds your kitchen sink faucet. It is always a good idea to shut the house water main off and drain the system to a point lower that your kitchen to prevent any back flow from the water heater or other fixtures.

Step 2
Mount your new in line water filter to the underside back of the kitchen sink cabinet. The filtration system normally come with all mounting hardware needed. Important Be sure to mount the filter system with enough vertical distance from filter to cabinet base so you can unscrew and drop the filter housing and change out the filter cartridges.

Step 3
water connections:
remove the flex connector tube going from your cold water shut off pipe going to your faucet this is typically 3/8" compression thread at the shut off valve and 1/2" IPS when it reaches the faucet. IPS means Iron Pipe size and is a standard measurement we use. Screw the adapters that came with the filter which is normally 1/2" male by 3/8" compression threads. So after you screw the 1/2" IPS thread into the filter housing you will be left with a 3/8 compression male.

Measure and cut your 3/8" soft tubing and connect it to the cold water shut off valve and run it to your filter inlet. Then you will install your 3/8" piping from the outlet of your filter and run it to the 1/2" IPS faucet connection. The 1/2" IPS faucet thread is usually typical but could differ as faucet manufactures have many different connections these days.

When this procedure is complete turn the water on and test for leaks, it is a good idea to remove the faucet aerator from the end of the spout, run the faucet to clear any debris which may be in the line from the installation process.