scrupul0us
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First post!
We bought a house out in the "country" in January and it's on a well...
When we first moved in the sulfur was AWEFUL...
The well has a culligan system on it as follows:
-Bleech injection
-Wellmate pressure tank
-120 gal holding tank
-Culligan Cullar carbon filter
-Reverse osmosis system (3 filters and another small tank)
OK... so when we first got in the issue was the injection port being blocked and the duckbill/check valve being hardened... While the tech was there he gave a run down on the entire system and how to do just about everything myself so I didnt have to waste my $$$ calling them (two beers and some small talk goes a long way)
So right off the bat I had two issues, the wellmate tank bladder had a hole in which contributed to the crummy pressure we had (he quoted me $800 to replace it, I did it myself with the same tank from a distributor for $190)
The other issue was the cullar needing to be rebed... The previous owners had basically moved out for an entire year and didnt monitor the bleach levels so alot of the time pure sulfured water went right into carbon fouling it out... Doing nightly regens definitely helped, but, theres still some sulfur there
So I've been doing my homework and asking around and I guess it's not terribly difficult to rebed these yourself buuuut Ive read and heard alot of bad stuff about these and its just better to get a different filter that I can more easily maintain myself.
Eitherway the cost to me is $500 to culligan or $500 for the new system unless I can rebed it myself for the cost of the carbon and the gravel... The issue is, I dont know what kind of gravel, what kind of carbon, how much of each and the procedure to actually do the rebedding
So thats my first overall "question" if you will...
My second question is about my chem feeder... I have a Stenner 85MHP17... Is this an OK pump? This weekend the pump tube in the head sprung a leak and was squirting bleach all over the wall (tiny hole where the tube meets the ferrel)... I ordered some new tubes and duckbills online (5 of each) for about 90$ shipped... The Culligan guy told me it should be serviced yearly
My last question is about my reverse osmosis system... oye, i guess it works ok... we dont really use the tap on the sink that its tied into but our fridge ice maker and water dispenser are tied to the line and my god the pressure is aweful... the cube come out partial and the water is basically a slow tiny stream from the dispenser (2 minutes to fill a milk glass) yet the tap on the sink sends out water with no issue... perhaps the restriction of the filter in the fridge is more than the pressure the osmosis system translates through its lines? should i retap from a copper line just for the fridge?
So i think thats about it... thanks for letting me ask so much!
Brian
EDIT: The tank has CENTAUR written on it in Sharpee... I presume thats the type of activated carbon they used to bed the tank
We bought a house out in the "country" in January and it's on a well...
When we first moved in the sulfur was AWEFUL...
The well has a culligan system on it as follows:
-Bleech injection
-Wellmate pressure tank
-120 gal holding tank
-Culligan Cullar carbon filter
-Reverse osmosis system (3 filters and another small tank)
OK... so when we first got in the issue was the injection port being blocked and the duckbill/check valve being hardened... While the tech was there he gave a run down on the entire system and how to do just about everything myself so I didnt have to waste my $$$ calling them (two beers and some small talk goes a long way)
So right off the bat I had two issues, the wellmate tank bladder had a hole in which contributed to the crummy pressure we had (he quoted me $800 to replace it, I did it myself with the same tank from a distributor for $190)
The other issue was the cullar needing to be rebed... The previous owners had basically moved out for an entire year and didnt monitor the bleach levels so alot of the time pure sulfured water went right into carbon fouling it out... Doing nightly regens definitely helped, but, theres still some sulfur there
So I've been doing my homework and asking around and I guess it's not terribly difficult to rebed these yourself buuuut Ive read and heard alot of bad stuff about these and its just better to get a different filter that I can more easily maintain myself.
Eitherway the cost to me is $500 to culligan or $500 for the new system unless I can rebed it myself for the cost of the carbon and the gravel... The issue is, I dont know what kind of gravel, what kind of carbon, how much of each and the procedure to actually do the rebedding
So thats my first overall "question" if you will...
My second question is about my chem feeder... I have a Stenner 85MHP17... Is this an OK pump? This weekend the pump tube in the head sprung a leak and was squirting bleach all over the wall (tiny hole where the tube meets the ferrel)... I ordered some new tubes and duckbills online (5 of each) for about 90$ shipped... The Culligan guy told me it should be serviced yearly
My last question is about my reverse osmosis system... oye, i guess it works ok... we dont really use the tap on the sink that its tied into but our fridge ice maker and water dispenser are tied to the line and my god the pressure is aweful... the cube come out partial and the water is basically a slow tiny stream from the dispenser (2 minutes to fill a milk glass) yet the tap on the sink sends out water with no issue... perhaps the restriction of the filter in the fridge is more than the pressure the osmosis system translates through its lines? should i retap from a copper line just for the fridge?
So i think thats about it... thanks for letting me ask so much!
Brian
EDIT: The tank has CENTAUR written on it in Sharpee... I presume thats the type of activated carbon they used to bed the tank
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