Good Morning Peggie, for the last few years I have had an issue with algee and sea grass drawing into our raw water hose and lodging itself in the rim of our PHII bowl, I installed a prefilter but the screen is too large to catch the tiny algee and when they lodge in the bowl, after not using it for a week, they die and STINK..... So I was looking to replace the strainer with the Earth Safe In line treatment system with its biodegrable tablets. Whats your take on this unit? Thanks Rob
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A better way to solve the problem
Reroute your head intake line to tee into your head sink drain line. After you've closed all the seacocks, fill the sink with clean fresh water...flush the toilet. Because the seacock is closed, the toilet will pull the water out of the sink, rinsing all the sea water and its assorted micro (and not so micro) organisms out of the whole system--intake line, pump, channel in the rim of the bowl and the head discharge line. Or, if you have the fresh water to spare, you can keep the thru-hull closed all the time except when the sink is in use and flush with fresh water down the sink. It will be necessary to keep a plug in the sink when it's not in use...or the toilet will pull in air through the sink that'll keep it from priming. Several boat builders plumb this way 'cuz it eliminates a thru-hull and seacock.
Reroute your head intake line to tee into your head sink drain line. After you've closed all the seacocks, fill the sink with clean fresh water...flush the toilet. Because the seacock is closed, the toilet will pull the water out of the sink, rinsing all the sea water and its assorted micro (and not so micro) organisms out of the whole system--intake line, pump, channel in the rim of the bowl and the head discharge line. Or, if you have the fresh water to spare, you can keep the thru-hull closed all the time except when the sink is in use and flush with fresh water down the sink. It will be necessary to keep a plug in the sink when it's not in use...or the toilet will pull in air through the sink that'll keep it from priming. Several boat builders plumb this way 'cuz it eliminates a thru-hull and seacock.
Works great
What peggy describes is the best way to go...its what I did on my boat but to add one build off that - I don't ever open my raw-water intake. I instead just use the head, wash my hands in the sink and THEN flush. The head pulls the fresh water in the sink and drain line and you avoid the whole seawater thing altogether. Never a head odor on my boat. Rob
What peggy describes is the best way to go...its what I did on my boat but to add one build off that - I don't ever open my raw-water intake. I instead just use the head, wash my hands in the sink and THEN flush. The head pulls the fresh water in the sink and drain line and you avoid the whole seawater thing altogether. Never a head odor on my boat. Rob
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