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 [...]
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Changing the Potasium Permanganate bottle
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 [...]
Iron Filter for Potable Water
Iron in well water is a very common problem. Everyone within a 20 mile radius of us and perhaps beyond has some type of iron in their well water. When we first moved into our dream house, I noticed two water softener bypass valves left by the previous owner. I never really [...]
Maintenance of a DWS-7 UV disinfection unit
The other day I was driving to work and thinking to my self; you know, I just don’t have enough problems, I wish somebody would give me some more problems. Well, apparently “somebody” was listening. Cut to last Sunday. We have an Ultra Violet light water disinfection unit installed on our old [...]
UV disinfection unit
Our old well is shallow, so it is inevitable that some form of bacterial contamination will get into the well water. We use injected chlorine to oxidize the ferric iron present in the water so that the sand filter can catch it and remove it.
We also use a DWS-7 Ultra Violet (UV) disinfection unit [...]
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