boatboy
 
Reply Sat 20 Sep, 2008 10:25 pm
I'm looking at puting together a water softening system for a private well. I have hard water along with iron bacteria. The best quote so far is from a company calle budgetwater.com, but I cant find any info or reviews on their products.
So far my research seems to show that i need more then just a water softener. any help would be appreciated!
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H2O MAN
 
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Reply Mon 22 Sep, 2008 01:39 pm
@boatboy,
You have "problem water" and I highly recommend that you find
a local company that sells, installs and services what they sell Cool
boatboy
 
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Reply Mon 22 Sep, 2008 03:43 pm
@H2O MAN,
I looked into a local company and the only one around was 5600 for their system(puronics) which was a water softener only. They also tried to sell me a ozone setup. I just have a hard time paying over $10,000 for a treatment system(which from what i could find is an excellent system, but my heads spinning from all of this!)
Like your signature also by the way H2O MAN!
H2O MAN
 
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Reply Tue 23 Sep, 2008 09:21 am
@boatboy,
What part of the country are you located in?

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boatboy
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2008 07:14 am
@H2O MAN,
40 miles west of portland, I actually found 2 companies the first told me just to dump 2 cups of bleach down the well every month and circulate it until my filters plugged then change them and repeat the next month. They did not want to help me with some kind of filter system. Wouldnt even come look they said our area had problem water and wed just have to deal with it. The test puronics did said we had hardness of 12, iron 1.2, ph 7.1, and iron bacteria.
H2O MAN
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2008 08:44 am
@boatboy,
A chlorination system (chem feed), retention (120 gallon minimum - flush able) and
de-chlorination (1.5 cubic feet of back washing GAC) followed by a softener will do the job.

Ozone and open air chlorination are other options.

Avoid air injection and green sand/pot perm systems.
boatboy
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2008 06:05 pm
@H2O MAN,
the chlorination system is what i've been finding online also, and at a much more reasonable price then the ozone system, thanks for your input it helps alot, also your comments on other posts have been helpfull!
H2O MAN
 
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Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2008 08:10 pm
@boatboy,
Any time Cool
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farmi29
 
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Reply Thu 19 Feb, 2009 11:56 pm
Instal only Softer is not that hard .The hardes part is SET-UP
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farmi29
 
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Reply Fri 20 Feb, 2009 12:25 am
@boatboy,
I am sorry for my English.
It’s not necessary spent that money. BUY the chip staff
1. You have to check Hardness, Iron .than you adjust softener to quality of yours water. You can adjust about 95% softeners .Let see If yours hardness of well water is 18GPG than you have to add another 2 GPG= 20 GMG also check IRON to 1 PPM. always you have to add 5 GPG =25GPG for 2 PPM you add another 5 =10 GPG You need ozone for well because bacteria in the water but in order to get 100% performance of Light you have to install Water softener and reduce Hardness at least to 2 GPG.
josh2009
 
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Reply Wed 27 May, 2009 05:34 am
Need more info before "pecking" order can be determined. Is the iron ferric or ferrous??? Best method I've found is: cartridge filter, softener, feed pump, metering device, 80-120 retention, b/w carbon filter. Keep chlorine residual between 2 & 4 ppm- Eco Water dealers have the best set-up to accomplish this with their ECR3500R30 w/relay to run feed pump. NEVER short cut when dealing with iron bacteria and get rid of the iron first !!!
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josh2009
 
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Reply Wed 27 May, 2009 05:36 am
@farmi29,
No way dude !!!! You apparently have not dealt with much iron bacteria
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H2O MAN
 
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Reply Wed 27 May, 2009 06:30 am
@boatboy,
boatboy wrote:


Like your signature also by the way H2O MAN!


Thanks, I've added to it.

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donaldkells
 
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Reply Fri 27 Apr, 2018 12:31 am
Basically, on the off chance that you have hard water, you ought to likely have a water softener. The exact necessities of every household differ, as a few areas have a greater number of minerals than others.
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