Whole house pre filter

[Trevor W]

Originally Posted by sphelps

Those house filters typically run on 40+ psi and even then the flow rate required through them is fairly small. Now compare that to your typical herbie, if you got three feet of water on top if it, it's only around 1.5 psi or so and the required flow rate would be pretty high as well. Even on a return pump the pressure won't be much higher. The other issue is your tap water is actually really clean, for example if you ran filter socks under your faucets they'd probably never clog up.

Very true...thanks for the input. When I first thought of this I will admit that I never realized that these filters required the amount of pressure that they do. I initially thought that it would act similar to a pre filter sponge or something equivalent that water would easily flow through. I guess these would all be good reasons why I couldn't find any info out there on people using them in place of filter socks or floss.