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The house I live in has a well. 400 feet deep (why? long story). The thing to be aware of is that there's a few different kinds of additives you might need f
by RajT88 3y ago
The house I live in has a well. 400 feet deep (why? long story).
The thing to be aware of is that there's a few different kinds of additives you might need for well water.
The most usual is water softener. Ours isn't too hard, but what we do have is hydrogen sulphate from bacteria in the soil - it requires hydrogen peroxide to make the water smell neutral and palatable.
- SteveNuts 3y agoWhere do you add that? into the water softener?
- RajT88 3y agoThere's a pump which feeds into the water softener tank. We don't use softener, so peroxide is the only thing which goes into it. To the other guy - we drink the well water. It's fine after the peroxide treatment.
- kylebenzle 3y agoWhy do you need any conditioning for irrigation water?
- adrianN 3y agoYou might ruin your soil over time.
- bluGill 3y agoWater softeners are common, but they are regional. In some places the ground water is naturally soft and you don't need one. In others you need them. One house I lived in you needed an iron filter, but most people have never heard of such a thing There are lots of other devices in the water treatment catalog that you might or might not need. Only a real water test can tell.
- technothrasher 3y agoI had an issue with hydrogen sulfide bacteria in my well water system. If I didn't run any water for a couple days (like, say, I went away for the weekend), I'd get a terrible sulfur smell to my water. When my well pump failed, I took the opportunity while the well head was off to dump a bunch of bleach down the well. Haven't had a problem in years now.
- RajT88 3y agoInteresting! I had wondered if that would be viable.