Saturday Cleaning Day

Saturday at the Vincent's starts with a sleep in to 6.00 am. We then get breakfast, then walk to the supermarket Au Bon Marche, about 15 minutes walk.  We get back home around 9.00 am.  Then start cleaning.  Today I cleaned our water filter unit.  The water out of the back flush system had become quite brown, and the water did have an unusual taste. 

This is the unit, the upper tank holds 3.5 litres of water.  

This is some of the water that came out of the unit.  There were also floaters in both the upper tank, where the unfiltered water goes, and the lower tank that is filtered.  I suspect that the floaters were just scum buildup on the inside of the tank due to the Vanuatu heat.  I hadn't given the unit a good clean since we arrived.

The unit in dismantled on bench

Then I thoroughly flushed the unit, soaked the parts in water with white vinegar.

Here is one of the floaters, not really sure where it came from, but it was in the sink while I was flushing the filter. We are hoping it just dropped in from somewhere. (see the small wiggly worm), Not sure if the video will come through on the blog lets see what happens.

 All back together and filtering its first post-clean water.