Inline Water Filter With Easy Cleanout
- V0.1 2026 Sep 14 Monday 240pm PDT . KHL
I use water-saver.org (Mebane NC) FlushSaver Deluxe toilet flush kits inside two American Standard house toilets.
Water from Portland via the West Slope Water District (wswd), recently upgraded street connection with inside quarter-turn shutoff, ancient (1960) steel pipe plumbing inside house (FIXME).
No inline filters between wswd and the toilets; some crud makes it through.
Recently, crud got into the downstairs toilet tank filler valve, and it would not shut off. The FillerSaver Blue Standard product page shows an inline red Sediment Screen Filter; none with last year's order. Without the screen, I can imagine crud from the 100yo street water lines making it into the FillerSaver and preventing it from sealing. The FillerSaver is all snap-fit plastic; it cannot be "unsnapped" to reveal the valve surfaces and remove the closure-blocking crud.
The screen filter shown on the web page is in-line; to clean it or replace it requires turning off the water valve feeding the toilet, unscrewing the connection hose at the base of the tank, and hoping that the screen filter isn't damaged; Water Saver doesn't sell separate "red inline" replacement filters. Water Saver does sell a separate Tank Filler Filter with a stainless steel screen; almost deluxe, but cleaning the filter still requires shutting off the water, unscrewing the screen cartridge, cleaning the screen (toothbrush), and reassembling.
There's an quicker and easier way, which could become a new product for water-saver.org. A three position, two outlet "rotary filter" with a "clean filter" position that washes crud out of the screen and into a bucket below. Two positions shown in this diagram:
