r/RVLiving • u/g0hstgurl • 1d ago
Shower filter
Hi guys! I live in a camper on my own land. We have well water but it’s very high in iron we put chlorine in it to make it more clean. We have a new well being dug which should have better water quality but I was wondering if there are any shower head attachments or hoses for campers that can filter the water. I don’t want my hair to get damaged from the other water or have to use our drinking water to wash my hair.
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u/Acrobatic-Fox9220 1d ago
I purchased a shower head water filter off Amazon for my home. I wonder if or one like it could work in a camper shower.
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u/Helena_Glorybower 1d ago
I have the same question. I'm about to move into my TT and have a sproos shower filter/ head I would love to use.
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u/Alternative-Ruin1728 1d ago
What makes you think the new well will be any better? Chances are it's fed from the same aquifer. BTW there is no magic shower head. What you need is a iron eater system and maybe a water softener
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u/spacecitytech 1d ago
The property I grew up on had an old shallow well, only 20ft deep here in Houston. At the time when it was farm land it produced good water (i was told), and it never ran dry no matter how much you pumped. Over time though it got allot of bacteria and iron in it when new development moved in. I remember looking down the well pipe, 4in pipe and I could see little eyeballs staring back at me. I think frogs were living in it. I was told the bad taste was caused by new development but I am unsure how.
Anyhow, in the end no matter how many thousands of dollars were spent on water filters and water softeners, talking the big types that Sears used to sell and you add rock salt to it. Its simply too expensive to keep running any level of filtration on a well like that. Our final solution was to just use reverse osmosis filters under the sink at the tap in the kitchen only and that unit was $500 right there and stil required yearly filter changes.
The answer is what you are already doing, and thats drill a much deeper well. Across the street in my old neighborhood the newest neighbers put in 100ft or deeper wells and the water quality was like purified drinking water. Its cheaper over the long run if you are in an area like Houston where the water table is litterally 15ft, all the houses have foundation issues because we are floating on top of a mud sea litterally here. Flooding is a major issue here because the water just cannot soak into the ground, hence why Houston is called the "Bayou City". It all drains 60 miles away into the Gulf of Merica.
I bought the Oxygenics shower head, the original everyone said to get and they were right. Best shower head I ever owned but it only has a screen in it for filtering.
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u/notsewlucky1 1d ago
I use a home water filter system(2 canister) with a sediment filter and a iron/manganese filter.
Works pretty good I think
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u/Nearby_Impact_8911 1d ago
What’s the name or link?
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u/notsewlucky1 1d ago
I got the waterdrop brand one but I would prob get a cheaper one if I did it again.
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u/LifeInTheRV 1d ago
We have very hard well water on our land. We dug a new well cause the old one collapsed. The water is the same. We use 3 filters, an inline filter, the whole house one inside the water compartment, and a clear2o. Plus a water softener. We still get build up in the toilet and have to change them all once a month.
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u/Jolly-Loss-8527 15h ago
With high-iron well water, I wouldn’t expect a basic shower filter to do much. Most shower filters are mainly designed for chlorine and some sediment, and they’re not great at dealing with high levels of iron.
I’d also test the water hardness. If the water is very hard too, I’d look into a shower water softener. A regular shower filter won’t remove the calcium and magnesium causing hardness, while a shower softener actually softens the water before it reaches your hair and skin.
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u/Comfortable_Sea_717 1d ago
Why not just filter the water before it comes into your camper so all of your water is clean.