Evelyn Ruut wrote:
> "High Miles" <2Blues17@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:o96dnSMFceEWoqfanZ2dnUVZ_tCrnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.
>> To 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.
>
I think Culligan is WAY over priced, and since I had lab facilities at
work, I ran the water for the farm house myself. Once I'd established
the main contaminates, I bought a softener for hardness, told the
kids to get and maintain a filter - and warned them to buy bottled
spring water for drinking and cooking.
So far so good. The water is fine for laundry and wa****ng up.
I don't like to see anyone drinking softened water because of the
hidden sodium burden.
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