Tag Archives: smelly hot water

Changing the Potasium Permanganate bottle

I posted once about our iron well water.  Basically, without a good filtering system, our water would be an orangish brown color.  Lots of Iron, everyone around here has it.
To get rid of the iron, most people use a Culligan water softener.  I don’t like “soft” water, it tastes salty to me.  I also don’t [...]

Smelly Hot Water

Update and bump: I finally got around to replacing the anode rod today with a zinc aluminum rod purchased on line. I took this picture of the old and new anodes:

As you can see, the old anode is pretty much shot. When I flushed the tank out, all sorts of black junk came [...]