"High Miles" <2Blues17@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Evelyn Ruut wrote:
>> "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.
>>> 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.
That was the best reason people bought RO units for the home.... to remove
the sodium the water softener left in.
Culligan may seem overpriced, but you get what you pay for, they do it all
for you, and it truly is idiot proof. I can tell you the stories about
the
outfits we dealt with before we finally went with culligan and how they
screwed things up for us with wasted equipment, in the wrong order of
treatment etc. etc. Since we went to the Culligan stuff, we have had no
more hassles.
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Best Regards,
Evelyn
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