luvnaz
New Member
Hi,
I've been browsing this very informative forum since I started getting a lot of iron drawn up from our well. This is the first well my fiance and I have owned. We moved in a month ago and the water was clear and only made my white clothes a little dingy so I started using Oxiclean and Borax.
Then on Friday 10/30/09 water coming from the taps was very very red. After some reading and advice from a friend I hooked up a hose to the well pressure tank and ran the iron out all weekend (there is no hookup for a hose at the well cover itself or I would have connected it there). I also flushed my hot water tank several times before that.
Now the water still has some color, but it isn't as bad as it was
I had a really nice well repair man come out Monday and take a sample and check out my system. He said the mechanics of the well are fine.
Yesterday he gave me the results of the water test.
1ppm iron (he thought it would be more considering how colorful the water was!)
5 hardness (he suggested a water softener)
6.7 PH (which is acceptable I suppose)
We have a GE Watersmart whole house water filter connected after the well pressure tank before it goes into the house. We have another connected to the water heater. The one after the well pressure tank has never worked since we moved in a month ago so we've had to bypass it.
He suggested chlorinating and disinfecting the plumbing (as did my realtor) with pool grade chlorine. He suggested a water softener and greensand filter (which we can't afford right now!).
We are thinking of replacing the broken GE Watersmart connected after the well pressure tank with a new one and a new filter for the filter at the water heater. And our water/ice dispenser has a PUR filter built into the new refrigerator.
The previous owners seemed to do OK with this. My neighbor said her water was colored this weekend too. So she changed her filter and it is fine now.
Does anyone have any other advice for us based on the water test we had done?
Thanks in advance! Mary
I've been browsing this very informative forum since I started getting a lot of iron drawn up from our well. This is the first well my fiance and I have owned. We moved in a month ago and the water was clear and only made my white clothes a little dingy so I started using Oxiclean and Borax.
Then on Friday 10/30/09 water coming from the taps was very very red. After some reading and advice from a friend I hooked up a hose to the well pressure tank and ran the iron out all weekend (there is no hookup for a hose at the well cover itself or I would have connected it there). I also flushed my hot water tank several times before that.
Now the water still has some color, but it isn't as bad as it was
I had a really nice well repair man come out Monday and take a sample and check out my system. He said the mechanics of the well are fine.
Yesterday he gave me the results of the water test.
1ppm iron (he thought it would be more considering how colorful the water was!)
5 hardness (he suggested a water softener)
6.7 PH (which is acceptable I suppose)
We have a GE Watersmart whole house water filter connected after the well pressure tank before it goes into the house. We have another connected to the water heater. The one after the well pressure tank has never worked since we moved in a month ago so we've had to bypass it.
He suggested chlorinating and disinfecting the plumbing (as did my realtor) with pool grade chlorine. He suggested a water softener and greensand filter (which we can't afford right now!).
We are thinking of replacing the broken GE Watersmart connected after the well pressure tank with a new one and a new filter for the filter at the water heater. And our water/ice dispenser has a PUR filter built into the new refrigerator.
The previous owners seemed to do OK with this. My neighbor said her water was colored this weekend too. So she changed her filter and it is fine now.
Does anyone have any other advice for us based on the water test we had done?
Thanks in advance! Mary