NeNoHoLLiday
New Member
I bought a house recently with a kinetico 2030 softener. It’s 15 years old and apparently it’s been destroyed by iron and chlorine and previous owners didn’t ever upkeep it! They said if the owners had used a simple prefilter it would have mostly prevented most of the iron related damage.
They did testing:
18 gpg hardness
1 ppm chlorine
.2 ppm ferrous iron
.1 ppm ferric iron
We have a growing family, but just 3 for now. Though likely will get to 5-6.
Do I need a twin tank system? I hear mixed things on the necessity of it.
Do I need a carbon filter tank, or is a carbon prefilter sufficient to manage it, albeit less effectively? Would it mitigate the iron damage?
We have a separate water filter for drinking water (also by kinetico attached to sink) which seems to be doing the trick for now (tested fine). Are there additional considerations if we wanted to consume water from our fridge?
Lots of questions, I have minimal knowledge. Just trying to avoid spending 8k to get a new kinetico system (but they said they would buyback my old one for $1k how nice!!)
They did testing:
18 gpg hardness
1 ppm chlorine
.2 ppm ferrous iron
.1 ppm ferric iron
We have a growing family, but just 3 for now. Though likely will get to 5-6.
Do I need a twin tank system? I hear mixed things on the necessity of it.
Do I need a carbon filter tank, or is a carbon prefilter sufficient to manage it, albeit less effectively? Would it mitigate the iron damage?
We have a separate water filter for drinking water (also by kinetico attached to sink) which seems to be doing the trick for now (tested fine). Are there additional considerations if we wanted to consume water from our fridge?
Lots of questions, I have minimal knowledge. Just trying to avoid spending 8k to get a new kinetico system (but they said they would buyback my old one for $1k how nice!!)
