How we got a clean shower

Our water comes from the ground and is pumped to a big tank on our roof. From there we get the water delivered to our sinks, toilets and showers via gravity. The first few times we use the water it smelled terribly of copper. The smell has somewhat cleared up, but we are still having a lot of sand and dirt in our water. This makes showering feel like a fruitless exercise. But it is more comfortable to be dirty than sweaty!

Stan has been looking around town for a few weeks trying to find a sediment filter and the hoses to put a filter in our shower. The results are not pretty, but we hope that we'll now have clean hair.

You can see the hose going down from the faucet to the filter. Then up to the Philips water heater.

Here is the hot water system we had to have but in all honesty we rarely use it.

This is the state of the filter after one test shower. Before this it was pure white inside.

Hopefully, after a few days we'll find out if our tans are real or a result of muddy showers. Perhaps they'll will wash off and we'll find ourselves back to the pasty Australian white again. We may even get the shower walls to stay clean and get the hoses white again.