12-18-2023, 10:56 AM
I have had a sediment filter on my water line for about 5 years. It's a GE brand. For the last several months I seem to be going through filters much more quickly but after these last couple filter changes I am wondering if the water is bypassing the filter. Until early this year I was changing the filter ~12 weeks. In the summer it was 6-8 because of the watering of the plants. The last 2 were changed at about 3 weeks. Usually it's time to change the filter when the water pressure drops a little. The filter itself is pretty much evenly coated. These last 2 time around there was some brown water but no pressure drop, and looking at the filters they were relatively clean, or at least I've seen much worse on the outside. The brown water was also in spurts. Flush a toilet or take a shower and it would go away for a day or two. There was a fair bit of sediment settled at the bottom of the housing and the filter seemed more brown than usual on the inside. I am wondering if the housing is starting to bypass. The filters are an offbrand from Amazon, but I've been using them for at least 18 months. Home Depot stopped selling the GE products and these filters are also half the cost.