Water Filtration Done

[root1]

Hello Mr. Mswlogo,
Thankyou for the reply.
I did neglect to take into account the VFD's boot routine. It surely would not appreciate being turned off/on like the family toaster. Considering what these things cost, I certainly don't want to tempt fate. So, I will go the valve route.
Red Hat / ASCO is the valve for me; proven reliability and parts available anywhere.
J

[mswlogo]

Originally Posted by root1

Hello Mr. Mswlogo,
Thankyou for the reply.
I did neglect to take into account the VFD's boot routine. It surely would not appreciate being turned off/on like the family toaster. Considering what these things cost, I certainly don't want to tempt fate. So, I will go the valve route.
Red Hat / ASCO is the valve for me; proven reliability and parts available anywhere.
J

Oh one other thing I had not thought of. If someone flushes a toilet or turns on faucet with power off and no shutoff. It will almost instantly drain back to the water table. Probably like 30-40ft of head. That kind of stirs things up. Again if it was a traditional system the storage tank would cover it.

[root1]

I can just imagine, on some dark & stormy night when the power has failed at around 2am, an unknowing person gets out of bed to discreetly use the toilet without bothering to turn the lights on; flushes the toilet and .... SUCK SSSHHHHhhhh ...... not for the faint-of-heart! lol!
Hopefully, the system has a functioning check valve; maybe two; to prevent such an occurence!

[mswlogo]

Originally Posted by root1

I can just imagine, on some dark & stormy night when the power has failed at around 2am, an unknowing person gets out of bed to discreetly use the toilet without bothering to turn the lights on; flushes the toilet and .... SUCK SSSHHHHhhhh ...... not for the faint-of-heart! lol!
Hopefully, the system has a functioning check valve; maybe two; to prevent such an occurence!

It’s not a huge deal if it happens. I just wouldn’t want it to happen unnecessarily. Mostly it might stir up sediment in the well. I tend to see more crap come through when I have shut it down for service.

I think the only check valve is down at the pump. There is no check valve at the house, by design. It’s a 3 season cottage. So they set it up that way to protect anything from freezing. Line up near house is not that deep due to ledge. It very quickly drains to a safe state.

Once the new house is in I might have that self draining valve taken out.
It’s mounted on the “pitless” adapter 16ft or so down.

So my remote valve IS my check valve

[mswlogo]

Well it’s time for a do over on the water treatment.

Filters worked on the cottage but I want something with lower maintenance for the new house.

I thought I had a lot of undissolved iron because the sediment filter took out so much. After some discussion with some folks they suspect it’s oxidizing in the sediment filter. Undissolved iron is orange colored water. Mine is clear.

Anyway I learned a lot since.

And ordered this filter.

https://www.cwts.ca/products/whole-h...x-filter-media

I’m so glad I got the “constant pressure” well pump because one requirement of this filter (media) is a fairly high backwash rate of 13 gpm. It’s because the media is on the heavy side.

Choosing the right filter (media) was more complicated than I expected. PH matters, water temp matters, backwash requirements and more.

Also the company I bought from recommended not putting any sediment filter in front. As that loads up, your flow rate goes down. If you drop below the requirement for the media in the filter, it’s ruined.

This site is awesome to get help on all sorts of DIY plumbing, heating etc.

https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php

[Woody38]

Water softeners add salt to the water. Better, is a water conditioner. Magnetic water conditioners are applied to the pipe. The chemical makeup of the substance is changed, no salt added.

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