Don't know if I am in the right forum or not, but here goes!!
I am finally getting aroung to put a water filtration system in my house. Per my previous article some months ago in the well forum, I stated that I change my whole house filter every 5-7 days. Well this is getting old after 20 odd yrs. ANyway water ph is 6.5 hardness is a 2 and iron is a 5.8!! Needless to say the iron is the problem(orange water) so the ?? is that the 2 systems I am looking at (1 is a kinetico and the other is a aif) require that they backwash once a week of approx 140 gallons into my septic.
I have a 900 gal septic system and was wondering if the system can handle that. The 2 outfits that I had at my house told me they didn't know but it should if its in good shape. Well to me that is not a good answer but they were upfront about it. I don't want to purchase a filtering system for the house if its going to ruin my septic. For the 4200 they want to put the system in vs the $5 a week I am spending on filters won't be worth it to me if I have to replace my septic becasue of this.
As usual thanks in advance for your replies.
bill g
I am finally getting aroung to put a water filtration system in my house. Per my previous article some months ago in the well forum, I stated that I change my whole house filter every 5-7 days. Well this is getting old after 20 odd yrs. ANyway water ph is 6.5 hardness is a 2 and iron is a 5.8!! Needless to say the iron is the problem(orange water) so the ?? is that the 2 systems I am looking at (1 is a kinetico and the other is a aif) require that they backwash once a week of approx 140 gallons into my septic.
I have a 900 gal septic system and was wondering if the system can handle that. The 2 outfits that I had at my house told me they didn't know but it should if its in good shape. Well to me that is not a good answer but they were upfront about it. I don't want to purchase a filtering system for the house if its going to ruin my septic. For the 4200 they want to put the system in vs the $5 a week I am spending on filters won't be worth it to me if I have to replace my septic becasue of this.
As usual thanks in advance for your replies.
bill g