Here's what I've been looking at: Farmtek
I will have a 1" line from the well pressure tank to the house connecting to a 3/4" copper house line. What I wanted to do was to install two of the WR2515 sediment filters (10gpm each, 3/4" inlet/outlet) in parallel just before the house connection. I was using the 10" filters instead of 20" filters because it was easier to install them right by the house connection.
My other choice was to use a single WR2500 Jumbo filter (25 gpm, 1 1/2" inlet/outlet) By the time I bought 2 of the other filters and the related parts, the net overall cost would be fairly close.
What I'm wondering is that if the 10 gpm flow will be a problem for the average 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home - that was one reason I was going to use two of these filters instead of one. I did not want to install a big restriction in the system. Thanks for your help.
You're planning to do pretty much exactly what I did. I used a pair of OmniFilter U25 10" filter bodies in parallel between the pressure tank and the water softener. I use RS-1 Rust/Sediment filters in each one.
I used the two in parallel because, like you, I didn't want to introduce a flow restriction into the system. I reasoned that 10 GPM is plenty of flow for normal in-home devices since most of them are low-flow these days anyway.
By the way, I tapped off before the filters to run my outside faucets for garden hoses, etc. No reason to filter water that's going to go right back into the garden.
Wish I could branch off for the hose bibs, but the house is already plumbed up. Hard to believe that the shop/barn is done and the house will be ready next month.
I appreciate the help - I also had a full bath in the shop along with hand sinks at the workbench so I was going to do the same filter setup there too.
I was going to make a manifold at the outlet of the pressure tank so I could branch off for house, shop, plus a couple more for later. Each branch would have a valve, plus the main cutoff between tank and manifold.
Mine was plumbed too but I have an unfinished basement so it was easy to run a new/separate line for the outside hose bibs. There were only two originally. One I left plumbed into the filtered/softened line but the other was easy to re-route. I took the opportunity to add a couple of new bibs while I was at it.
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