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Old 01-29-2009, 10:31 AM   #9
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Default Basic system works is sound

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Originally Posted by codeman671 View Post
You can get the same components locally without having to bring it in from BC. I had Gilford Well put in a whole house sediment filter and a Trojan Max UV system. We draw from the lake and our water tastes good.
We have used Gilford Well for decades, and they consulted with us when we rebuilt out systems 4 years ago. We use a basic sediment filter and UV, and the combination is great. For drinking water and ice, we do have a refrigerator with a charcoal cartridge as well. We do use a smaller micron filter for sediment, and find we need to change it about every 4-6 weeks in the summer, and the charcoal filter about half way through.

Call and ask for Norm Harris at Gilford Well. He and his brother now run the business.

Bilproject - thanks for the tip on the bleach. House is now plumbed with the new PX piping instead of copper. Do you think this would be an issue with only a short soak? Also, how to you isolate the toilets in terms of not letting the clorinated water into the septic system?

NHDOLFAN - We used to have a point well, but always had trouble with it. Now have a pipe that draws water via a wellpump from 15 ft below surface (to help, as codeman states, to keep away from the gasoline-disturbed surface level). We built a large stand to hold the a standard wellpump veritically (as if you leave them horizontal or tilted they tend to burn up their bearings) which holds the pump 2 feet off the bottom. Set up, with the filters/UV in the house, works great.
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