I will tell you what, friend, my well water isn't fit to wash a dog. It stinks of sulpher, has rust, and is so hard it drops out of a hose in cubes. My softening and aeration and chlorination and carbon filter actually makes it fit to drink, but the RO makes splendid water. Crystal clear ice cubes, enjoyable glasses of water straight from the dispenser, tasty coffee and iced tea. It theoretically removes everything that = non water. If you do not use an RO for your water and you are on a well, indulge yourself.Originally Posted by Scrappah
Just for the record, I know some are looking and thinking about the chlorination and asking themselves why I would do this. I need to have aeration to remove the sulpher (if I do not, the sulpher released by showers condenses on my AC and turns to sulphuric acid and will dissolve the copper coil). This is done by spraying the water pumped from the ground out of aerators that allow the sulpher to off gas. The aerated water then sits in a tank exposed to the air (with a screen to keep bugs and windblown objects out). The tank will turn into an algae choked frog pond (which many are) unless chlorine is introduced. It also sanitizes the well water in the event that any microbes that may be in the water pumped by the well. It will also oxidize any iron in the water that could cause rust stains in fixtures and showers. It is a very low concentration (about a third of a gallon diluted in about twenty gallons of water in a tank that is then injected drop by drop into 200? gallon aeration holding tank) and then filtered through a carbon filter bottle. All in all, I am very happy with the water quality as it is now.
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