iSpring Reverse Osmosis Filter Installation in Basement 

Thanks for a well done video Matt. The remote mic is a nice touch. What I wanted to comment on is your well water. If you have any amount of iron in the water, I would suggest using an iron filter ahead of the water softener. I have worked with my rusty water for many years and after much reconfiguring I have found a nearly perfect system. A 1 cu ft iron filter and a 1 cu ft water softener followed by a large canister carbon filter. What used to require 2 or 3 40lb bags of salt a month, now takes about 5 bags a year! Gone is the constant rust removal from the water fixtures. Now I can add my iSpring RO.

Thanks for taking the time to make this. It was very helpful.

Excellent video and presence!

About all you need is a whirly-gig, birdcage and a squirrel then you have a true Goldberg machine, haha. Great job on the components and their functions...Keep it up!!

Great video, Thanks for sharing.

i like the idea of the see thru pipe on the waste water black pipe, make lots of sense to see what kind of waste is coming out of those pipe, i think every State has different issues on water coming out from the original source, Vegas is worst, reduce a gallon of water to a cup, the color turns to a light brown, mud in color & has after taste of flouride,. hard water as they call it,. thanks for sharing your video very informative, & i am new to this kind of lesson,..

Thanks, great video.

Food Grade Silicone Spray will work well for lubricating the rubber seals/gaskets.

Nice overview and detail. Since the line is just 1/4” - any benefit to installing the tank raised up high near the ceiling (when the system is installed in the basement - for a fridge water/ice up stairs) - to help elevate pressure drop - or would that not really effect the flow pressure - because the tank is pressured!? Flow through the RO unit can/will be slow/low - but from the tank to the fridge - I’m just wondering if having the reservoir tank raised up would help keep flow pressure a little higher!?

"Great Job!"

Great video. Sorry to dig up old videos. I'm looking into this right now. I've heard a few complaints about water pressure of the filtered water. Do you think having your tank in the basement affects that? My kitchen doesn't have much storage so I'd like to do something similar to what you did in the basement. Thanks!!

always before get new membrane, or cartridges filter, you need to flush pre-filters by around 10 minutes, micro dust from carbon cartridge CAN DAMAGE THE MEMBRANE, line carbon (or mineral) filter after the membrane is not that important to flush it, but also can have micro dust.

What type of water softener

Great vid. What type/brand softener system are you using?

Matt, I am looking to do the same thing you did -- Basement mount to a refridgerator. Only problem is that the line would need to run about 40 ft from where the RO Filter/Tank will sit in the basement. I was told there might be pressure drop because of this. Have you had any complications like this in your setup?

You are supposed to purge the first three stages first that's why it was black

Hi Matt, did you run into any water pressure issues when connected to the fridge?

does the yellow tube put filtered water into the storage tank or take it from the tank to the faucet?

Do you have a picture of it installed to your fridge? Is it ok to have the ro system hooked up to a 1/2 line that goes to the fridge?

Hello, nice video. I would like to bring filtered water from basement to our kitchen. Would that work?

trouble is the amount of waste water - i'm told it should not go into septic system. what do you do with it?

If you want minerals back just add a pinch of himalayan sea salt per glass of water.😊

Sadly Ispring To systems are 3:1 waste to clean water ratio, I like Hydrologic Stealth Ro150 or 300 better 1:1 or 2:1. Only other way to get better performance out of Ispring to is permeate pump or booster pump.

How is this considered a "whole house" RO system if it only hooks up to the sink?

That's a lot of tubes! Make sure you get an under sink cabinet mat from Xtreme Mats and a water sensor to prevent any water damage from the inevitable leak at ​xtrememats.com.

Hi Matt, Thank you for posting this video for customers! We would like to offer you a thank you gift for taking the time to create this great video. Could you please contact us at your earliest convenience at sales@ispringfilter.com? Thanks, Helen

it seems the tank would have two hoses. One bringing filtered water to the tank and one to bring tank water to the tap.

Complete misapplication. 1. You are using a softener as an iron filter, a magical one thing does it all well water filter. You must be listening to a Collagen, or Rain Soft salesman for advice on a well water filtration system. You will have nothing but issues doing this. Softeners are meant to do 1 thing REMOVE HARDNESS. They are not Iron, or sediment filters. Using them as such is a service call in the making. Rain Soft, and Collagen salesmen know this. They count on it as residual income. 2. You are trying to remove harmful bacteria from your WELL water that has IRON in it with a UV light. The Iron will cause shielding making the UV light ineffective. Chlorine injection is more reliable, and cost effective. Plus adds other benefits such as oxidation to help filter, and sulfur neutralization. With UV bulbs needing replaced annually, with cost of well over $100 and up they are little more than a cash cow of residual income for the retailer who advises their use on well water. DO NOT use Vaseline or any petroleum products on your O-Rings and Seals. Use a Silicone based synthetic grease. The TDS is probably mostly Sodium put in the water from both the Salt, and the Potassium. It is a 1 for 1 Ion exchange for every grain of hardness, and everything else you are trying to get that softener to filter out of your well water, it is exchanging that with sodium. Even the potassium is producing sodium. Sodium is what a softener needs to work. You are wasting money on more expensive, and less efficient potassium, just use a good name brand salt pellets. Anyway, because of the sodium the softener adds to the water you do not want to be drinking softened water. So it is good that you are adding an RO. Even your RO water is at 35ppm. How much of that is still sodium from your softener? EPA says 30ppm, the AHA says 20ppm sodium is safe to drink. Adding a good iron filter could help reduce the sodium the softener is adding to the water as well. Extending the lift of you RO membrane. Other than some filtration misapplication, the install it's self was great. Save you some money, and to do it right, I'd look into chlorine injection, and a good iron filter. Get rid of that costly useless UV light, and if you get the right iron filter, do away with that 10x4.5" sediment filter, and the cost of its filters as well.

RO wastes a lot of precious water.