"High Miles" <2Blues17@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The house where I live has soft well water, with lime being the only bad
> ingredient.
>
> I have a house across the river, not ten miles from here, and the deep
> well water
> is loaded with iron and smells like a melting sulfur pit.
>
> The softener does nothing for the smell and leaves some rust, so the
kids
> who
> are living there use a whole house filter with replaceable cartridges.
> It remove the stink would require one of those potassium permanganate
> devices
> that mixes the liquid in before the sofener.
> Expensive and not worth it to me..................since I don't live
> there.
>
> R.O isn't really needed for here. The water tastes fine and has no
odor
> at all.
Long ago I worked for Culligan. They are still the absolute best when it
comes to water treatment, and they really know their stuff. They service
their own equipment, provide the right supplies, and you can even rent
equipment reasonably if you don't want to buy. We have everything but
the
RO system in this house. We chlorinate, and treat for rust, neutralize
the
acidity with a limestone filled tank, and it goes through a softener and a
carbon tank to remove odors and we STILL have some iron left. We add the
flocking agent early in the process to facilitate removal of iron, but it
still has some. There are different kinds of iron in water. Ferrous
iron
is easy to get out, but colloidal iron is nearly impossible and it still
results in some yellowish tinge to the water. You need a Culligan
trained
guy to really know which is what, and what your options are. We have
spent thousands on water purification equipment here because we simply
have
the worst well water you can imagine. We still get big 5 gallon bottles
delivered of RO water from Culligan because I want the water to taste good
that I actually drink. Since I don't buy soda or sugary juice beverages,
it is justifiable to spend for bottled water.
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Best Regards,
Evelyn
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