Pktaske
Member
Hello people. I recently had to bypass about 6 feet of 3/4" copper pipe that supplied water to my Filox iron filter. It was flat out blocked. Funny thing was when I went to fix it, turned out filter media was blocking the pipe. Now I've had my new tank for about a year and half. Prior to this, I was paying Culligan to exchange stand-alone iron filter tanks every month. I should mention that I have a ~50 gallon holding tank that was used to treat hydrogen sulfide and a lot of the media was at the bottom of this and in the pipe upstream. The interesting part: the Culligan filters I had were before the holding tank; my new filter was installed after the tank.
So where did this come from? I know on a couple of occasions the Culigan guy installed the tanks in reverse...but this clog happened a year and a half after those tanks were gone. One thought I had was that the culligan media was collecting and sitting in the holding tank and some kind of back pressure pushed it backwards, but that's just a guess...
I am also interested in knowing how the Culligan media could remove iron for almost a month without a recharge while I have to backwash my filter every two days.
Thanks...
So where did this come from? I know on a couple of occasions the Culigan guy installed the tanks in reverse...but this clog happened a year and a half after those tanks were gone. One thought I had was that the culligan media was collecting and sitting in the holding tank and some kind of back pressure pushed it backwards, but that's just a guess...
I am also interested in knowing how the Culligan media could remove iron for almost a month without a recharge while I have to backwash my filter every two days.
Thanks...