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A water pre-filter showing the amount of gunge collected in a week.

We thought the water was clear

23 January, 2012 by Stonehead 3 Comments

In the past, when we turned on the kitchen tap, clear water flowed out. When we ran water into a white bath, it looked clear. When we checked our hilltop header tank, we could see the bottom because the water was clear. Except it wasn’t. It was full of gunge. Two weeks after our new [...]

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Crofting, Drinking water, Filtration, postaweek2012, Smallholding, Water, Water filter, Water treatment

UV filter up and running

6 January, 2012 by Stonehead 0 Comments

Late yesterday, our local water services company, GRC Aquatech, phoned to say that due to a cancellation they could do our filtration system today: was I interested? We weren’t expecting to have the system installed before the end of January at the earliest, so I didn’t need to consider the question for more than a [...]

Crofting, Farming & Smallholding

Drinking water, postaweek2012, uv filtration, Water, Water supply, Water treatment

We’re all going to die!

6 October, 2011 by Stonehead 30 Comments

We’d saved several hundred pounds to buy new tyres for our Land Rover Defender but ended up buying second-hand ones, leaving £200 that could be spent elsewhere. As we have an unfiltered private water supply, which we know isn’t the best, we thought we’d put the spare cash towards a filtration system. The money wouldn’t [...]

Crofting, Farming & Smallholding, Water

Aberdeenshire, Crofting, Drinking water, Environment, postaweek2011, Smallholding, Water, Water pollution, Water supply