How Do I Back Flush my Sprite Shower Filter?
I got my Sprite shower filter and really love it! The instructions suggest back flushing the filter every month, but there are no details on exactly how to do this.
Can you tell me how to back flush my shower filter?
Back flushing is very simple. Once a month, simply remove the shower filter cartridge and put it back in the opposite direction.
The idea is to have the water flow through the cartridge in the opposite direction so the filtration media does not get compacted towards one end of the cartridge.
Back flushing also reduces the chance of "channels" forming, which allow water to flow through the filter without proper contact with the filtration media.
Note that back flushing does not dump chlorine back into your shower water, because chlorine is transformed into harmless chloride by KDF, rather than being held in the filter media.
Backflushing is not magic, but it can lengthen the effective life of your shower filter.
Comments
When you backflush the shower fliter you mention to remove the filter and put it back into the casing facing the opposite direction it once was. Does that mean we keep it in for a month facing the opposite direction, or do we just run about 10 minutes worth of water through it to flush it and then face the filter back in it's original direction?
Posted by: Tina Pakka | March 10, 2008 12:23 AM
Hi Tina, you should just reverse the cartridge every month so that the water passes through in the opposite direction until the next month, when you reverse it again.
Does that clarify things?
Richard
Posted by: Richard | March 12, 2008 02:15 AM