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First, a confession - I know very little about well water, we're new to a rural environment. Here's our set up, shallow well, cistern, pump in cistern and well.
In our house we have a 1.5 cubic foot nexan iron filtration system a 1.5 cubic foot Ultramax water softener, and a UV system with a 5 micron prefilter. (We probably got drastically upsold, but that is another story).
The problem is that the way this has been installed in our home means it is so noisy that we are getting little sleep.The utility room is indoors and directly below the master bedroom
The challenge is that the air pump they have added to infuse air into the iron system is SO noisy - they originally had it attached up above the system attached to the concrete wall - the pump runs every time a tap is run or a toilet is flushed and the pump is amazingly loud. They moved it to the concrete floor and while it is better, it still wakes us up when it starts to run.
Finally the backflushing of the system wakes the whole house up.
Is there anything that we can do or install to let us sleep again? I'm at the point of taking the whole darn thing out if I can't figure out how to fix this.
In our house we have a 1.5 cubic foot nexan iron filtration system a 1.5 cubic foot Ultramax water softener, and a UV system with a 5 micron prefilter. (We probably got drastically upsold, but that is another story).
The problem is that the way this has been installed in our home means it is so noisy that we are getting little sleep.The utility room is indoors and directly below the master bedroom
The challenge is that the air pump they have added to infuse air into the iron system is SO noisy - they originally had it attached up above the system attached to the concrete wall - the pump runs every time a tap is run or a toilet is flushed and the pump is amazingly loud. They moved it to the concrete floor and while it is better, it still wakes us up when it starts to run.
Finally the backflushing of the system wakes the whole house up.
Is there anything that we can do or install to let us sleep again? I'm at the point of taking the whole darn thing out if I can't figure out how to fix this.
- Are there other alternatives to this noisy air pump?
- If needed, could the air pump be installed outside?
- Does anyone have suggestions on limiting the noise associated with backflushing the system?
Thank you so much for any help you might be able to give us!