Water filter system for large condo?

[moonseeker]

I am looking for help finding a water filtration system (just clean water for daily use, not drinking water) for a large condo. Looking at Masters Systems, with mixed reviews and Mazuma Systems, with manual backwash. I am not an expert and hope somebody can point me in the right direction for an affordable system. Affordable also meaning maintaining the system. Not 1000 Baht filters every few weeks etc. Thank you very much.  MS>

[kamalabob2]

I am of the opinion that every province in Thailand has a low overhead "pump shop".  This is not unique to Buriram Province. Not a flashy place with tile floors and a/c blasting. Not in a Mall. Not a shop house franchise with franchise markup and limited actual experience. But a shop that does serious volume in water storage tanks, water pumps, diaphragm pump, booster pumps, pressure tanks, water filtering systems for both residences, small hotels, schools, apartment buildings, and government buildings. The local family owned high volume water pump dealer is more likely to have better trained installation teams, and sell water filtering media at a fraction of the price of the water filter shop with a large sign in English.  Perhaps in your province a local business owner can point you in the direction of the "go to" water pump shop. The owner of that shop will probably speak and understand English or his adult children would speak and understand English.  A high volume water filtering shop might have over 1000 Mitsubishi Water Pumps, Calpeda Italian Water pumps for swimming pools and deep wells or hundreds of Hitachi water pumps in stock, as they might also sell water pumps and water filters to smaller Mom and Pop shops or to housing projects.   They should have in stock water filtering systems of different types and in different sizes.

 

 Not an appliance shop that sells a/c units, Samsung side by side refrigerator, Siemens dishwashers, and front loading Electrolux washing machines, who as an afterthought might stock Mazuma or Pure water filtering as a sideline.  The sort of shop you might find in any province will have large containers of the carbon, resin, soda ash light, and Ion Exchangers. The sort of water purifier equipment dealer I shop at in Buriram Thailand stocks and delivers Manganese Zeolite for removing Iron Maganese Hydrogen Sulphur from well water.  Moonseeker could see pallets of such water filtering chemicals in large bags at a high volume water filtering dealer in his province. The owner of such a water filter dealer would gladly show him the materials and write down the prices for both the water filtering tanks, installation, warranty period and consumables.  The shop would stock reverse osmosis,  20" sediment filters, post carbon filter, 5 stage water filters all on display with discount prices.  The water quality and water filtering cost would be of real importance to a small hotel owner, so perhaps the OP can speak with the owner of a small hotel in his Thailand community to see what water filter shop they recommend for the actual water filtering equipment and the water purifier consumables. 

[trogers]

I am looking for help finding a water filtration system (just clean water for daily use, not drinking water) for a large condo. Looking at Masters Systems, with mixed reviews and Mazuma Systems, with manual backwash. I am not an expert and hope somebody can point me in the right direction for an affordable system. Affordable also meaning maintaining the system. Not 1000 Baht filters every few weeks etc. Thank you very much.  MS>

A description of water quality before filtration will help.

[IMHO]

Do you already have your own storage tank and pump?

 

The pressure drop through a whole house filter is quite significant - if you don't have a tank & pump after it, and the mains water pressure isn't super already, you could end up with an unsatisfactory flow rate.

 

The big master brand systems are generally pretty good. The main filtration media can be backwashed and lasts years if the mains supply isn't too bad. Some models have cartridge filters after the main 'sand' filter - in my experience, these usually last around 6 months with normal daily usage, so aren't too expensive to maintain.

 

As someone else already said, it would be good to understand why you want to filter the water - how bad is it?

 

[moonseeker]

Thank you all, so far.

 

I am trying to get the "dirty" Pattaya City water cleaner. Yes, I do have a pump and tank, which I use only, if condo water is off/unavailable. The pressure with the pump is actually less than the existing pressure, as the condo supply tank is about 10 floor up from my condo. I have tried 2 x to get away with the standard blue Mazuma filters and had it blown off, resulting in a big mess, twice in a year. It actually flattened the threads and blew off the filter.

 

Will a carbon granulate filter do the job and filter at least the main "dirt", so my shower does not have that brown residue after every shower?

 

Any better ideas?  Thank you very much for all your help.  MS>

[kamalabob2]

I asked Pichai the owner of Ruangsangthai Pump shop builders merchants in Buriram about the water filtering question as outlined by Moonseeker.  Pichai said there are two solutions. First  would be to clean out the pipes that supply water to his condo as perhaps they have a "clot" from sediment. He agreed that a carbon granulate filter would solve the brown residue seen in the shower. If a home owner or condo owner was in on or near Buriram, Isaan he would suggest the Pure stainless steel water filter model S106 which cleans 1000 liters per hour. It has 1/2" inlet and outlet. This Pure water filter is 100 cm high not including the "base" and is 15 cm across. There must be one or more high volume "pump shop" that serves smaller hotels and condo buildings with water pumps and water filtering at a competetive price and not "HiSo" prices with under-trained staff in and near Pattaya.  

[moonseeker]

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I asked Pichai the owner of Ruangsangthai Pump shop builders merchants in Buriram about the water filtering question as outlined by Moonseeker.  Pichai said there are two solutions. First  would be to clean out the pipes that supply water to his condo as perhaps they have a "clot" from sediment. He agreed that a carbon granulate filter would solve the brown residue seen in the shower. If a home owner or condo owner was in on or near Buriram, Isaan he would suggest the Pure stainless steel water filter model S106 which cleans 1000 liters per hour. It has 1/2" inlet and outlet. This Pure water filter is 100 cm high not including the "base" and is 15 cm across. There must be one or more high volume "pump shop" that serves smaller hotels and condo buildings with water pumps and water filtering at a competetive price and not "HiSo" prices with under-trained staff in and near Pattaya.  

Thank you very much to everybody. Great forum, great & helpful people. I could not find the S-`06 Pure Filter on the website. It seems impossible in any of the big shops here in Pattaya to get any reliable information. Contradictions and sales talk only. So still checking and searching. Again thank you for all the efforts to advise me.  MS>

[kamalabob2]

At my home I do have a Pure water filter. It may or may not be sold in Buriram or Pattaya at a high margin, high overhead chain stores and it may not be sold at a high overhead, high markup "franchise" water filtering store that has a large sign in English.  The Pure Water Filtering tank I have for carbonate granulate filtering of municipal government water is PURE from VJV International Ltd.  It is not the same Pure Water Filter, or anywhere near the price of Pure Water Filtering franchise stores or at a Homepro, Global House, Homeworks, Home Mart in Buriram or Surin Province. The serious water pump, water filtering stores who do the installations at hotels, schools, hospitals, Universities in Pattaya will probably sell, install and repair this made in Thailand stainless steel tank filtering brand.  The quote from the owner of Ruangsangthai Water Pump shop in Buriram where I bought this tank many years ago was that "Pure VJV International offers great quality, good prices, good spare parts availability and good factory support".  It has served me well and this is a brand worth considering in my opinion based on my personal experience.  I have experienced "service?" from Mazuma Water Filters and how the actual process of spare parts for a Mazuma water filtering tank dealer actually occured in Buriram Province.  I bought my first Mazuma Water filtering tank from an excellent Siemens, Electrolux, Hitachi, and Samsung appliance dealer located near the Bamboo Bar called "Buriram Supply" in downtown Buriram when I lived in a 2000 baht a month rental house in Buriram Province. The S 106 is clearly shown on the simple color brochure at a water pump specialist for Pure Water Purification by VJV International Ltd. 

[ksamuiguy]

I need parts for a large UV water purifier, it is made here in Thailand.

I need the Quartz glass tube the bulb goes into and the end caps to seal the tube.

The system uses a t-30 UV bulb.

Any help with locating spare parts for this unit greatly apperciated

 

have a grea day!