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I am buying a house with two full baths and one half bath. the master bath comes with jacuzzi jet.
The town water is yellowish, with sediment, and rust in the hot summer month.
How much does it cost to get licensed plumber to out in a whole house sediment filter for the water supply ?
You could do it yourself, if you are handy and can sweat pipe. A few guys at work have done the same thing. They made up a system with 2 filters. That way they could transfer the flow to one and when the filter got dirty, they close two valves and open the other two and use the second filter while they change out the first one to get it ready when the second one gets dirty. All it will cost is the 2 filters and 4 ball valves and some 90 deg elbows and a length of pipe. If this is a new house you may have the plastic pipe and that will make the job even easier.
If you get a plumber, I would guess about 3-500 in labor plus parts.
good luck with the new house.
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I have a water well. The well services my house and also a rental house next door. The water is very brown but if I put it in a vase after a day or two it clears and you can see the sediment on the bottom. This sediment is causing major plumbing problems: the toilets get full of silt and the works inside have to be replaced frequently, the screens on all of the water faucets and the shower have to be cleaned about one a week and we can only guess what is happening inside of the water heater.
What kind a water filter should I buy? I Googled it but there are so many different kinds and types that I'm really confused. I need a really big commercial kind to go on the well, that can make sure that clean water is going to both my house and to the rental house too.
The water is just light brown, a little murky looking with a slightly rust colored tone. It's not dark brown and it's not really gross. There is no noticeable smell. All of the sediment usually sinks to the bottom of a container in about 24 hours and leaves perfectly clear water with gritty, rusty stuff settled on the bottom.
I'm about 5 miles outside of San Antonio, Texas city limits.
I can't know where you are; but here in FL. "BROWN" well water is usually "bacterial iron" and often from a well sunk too deep. It isn't at all toxic; but certainly has unpleasant side effects; especially to plumbing.
I have two suggestions. One far more a bargain.
At the pump, in the visible plumbing you can install an Inline cartridge type filter, and depending on how much you spend, it can be Back Flushed/Drained...and/or removed to be Flushed or changed.
The other option; which I had to use was a Tank...like a water softener; that not only killed, but captured the bacterial iron. Obviously it was the more expensive option, but the only one available at the time. Either way they both need regular monitoring and maintenance.
From a Geological standpoint,,,Indulge me... This planet is in effect an IRON based planet. That occured probably 4 Billion years ago. It will remain a fact as long as we exist. Bacterial iron is similar to what happens during RUSTING, or what takes place on the TITANIC...Also an undeniable, ever/ongoing fact. As a species we have to deal with it.
In your case certainly you probably will have to have a capture/filter tank system installed. In my case I also added a water softener system; though it wasn't required to filter out the BROWN. Still in the context of any you choose; some regular monitoring, flushing; and replacement might be an issue.
I'm a bit curious as to how deep your well is; it's storage tank capacity; the delivery system to HOW MANY rental units on the same well; etc.
Steven Wolf
BTW, and aside. I had a second well sunk; initially; strictly for irrigation. At 45 ft. the Point struck limerock, and water; and that water was clean/clear/ and drinkable right out of the ground.
Add on: OOPs Ok I re-read and see 1 rental unit.
We just bought our house two months ago, we had the water tested because we are on a well and you can't buy a house without testing the water when you on a well. Anyway the test came back fine and after moving in we have noticed sediment on our dishes, people say it is calcium. So we put a water filter in and it filters the whole house... The filter is clear and we noticed after 3-4 weeks it seems to be growing a greenish algea/moss. We noticed this after a weekend away from home without the water being used. Is this normal? Is it because it is a clear filter? The filter is working great it is taking out so much we never knew we were drinking.
It's normal to see discoloration of these filters but it sounds like your in need of more.First if you have a storage tank that the well pumps into you have an algea/bacteria breeding ground and it should be circulated through an ultra violet light. Those home house filters remove sediment and sometimes chlorine they do nothing for calcium,bacteria,minerals in the water,even viruses.You should have your water tested by someone like Culligan or a lab in your area to see if you should have a softener,or UV,or even reverse osmosis to protect you and your family.Your water should be tested every couple years incase of well contamination.Hope this helps
I have well water and even though I have a whole house filter I still have a sediment problem. I have had to use an inline filer for my washing machine and find that I need to clean that at least once a month as wel. Do I need a bigger or better whole house filter? I'm new to this area and the whole well way of life.
Sounds like your well has experienced wall collapse. Some wells are drilled and have a metal casing or pipe driven down in the hole some are just drilled. The bottom of your pump pipe is too close to the bottom of the well. You are sucking up sediment. You need to raise the suction pipe in your well up a few feet.
As far as the quality of well water. Have it tested, if you're not in a subdivision or near a manufacturing plant, chances are your water is better than most treated city water.
Look in the yellow pages under Welldrillers.
Good Luck
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We have a well that produces good water, but at different times of the year, the water becomes cloudy, brown, etc. The well is nowhere near the septic tank, of course, so any filtering system that contains a backflush process is out of the question…nowhere for the waste water to go.
The system has a pressure pump (set to 55 PSI) and a large accumulator tank. From there, the 2" pipe goes to irrigation and to the house. I know I’ll have to re-plumb most of that to separate the outside from the house water. What kind of filter do I need? There are only 2 of us, so our use isn’t huge. I just want to keep the discoloration and scale down. This is Oregon and the water is fairly good. We will continue to use either Brita or a filter for the drinking water. There seems to be a very wide range of products from to well over 00. I just want to find something that works. Not sure if I need to worry about UV??? Thanks
here in louisiana we have plenty such wells,, I started with a $25 filter,, then the water table changed and I was getting cloudier water so I went to Lowes and bought a $60 filter and added it in line with the first one.. I used fine filters in the large one and then use a charcoal filter in the second one!! works great!!! sizes?? I’d say the first was about a quart sized and the second about a gallon sized globe!!
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As hard as I try to conserve water, it’s discouraging when the water I DO use comes out in an array of colors ranging from yellowish-brown to blackish-green. Is water the color of sludge even okay for my plants?? Nevermind my skin and insides…
Ever since I bought my house, at completely random times, my water would come out varying shades of murkiness. Operating under the belief that tax-paying citizens are generally entitled to clean water, I kept hounding DeKalb County’s Water and Sanitation Department as well as the Department of Watershed Management to come out and clean up my dirty water. They told me that the problem was most likely iron, which doesn’t make any sense since my pipes are copper all the way from the street to the house and then throughout the house. Nothing galvanized here. They flushed the water lines at the nearest fire hydrant, they replaced the water mains at the top of my yard, and came out to test a few times. Nothing worked nor made sense to them either.
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