Hi,
I'm looking for a little help with water treatment/softeners, sorry for the lengthy post.. I have read through some previous posts but without knowing much about this topic I'm asking for recommendations from the forum. I have a cabin with a sand point well, the water is clear and doesn't have any oder, but I do have rust stains in my toilets. I've received conflicting quotes from three different company's. Below are my water tests and a range of solutions/prices. Each contractor said their solution will correct my water yet the pricing varies by as much as $3000.00.
Some help sorting this out and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to move forward but want to make sure I select the best, most cost effective solution. Thanks in advance for your help. Please let me know if you need more information.
Water tests from fist company 3/5/11
2 Hardness
1.4 Iron Clearwater
0 Iron, ferric
1 Nitrates
6.6 PH
5/13/11
2 Hardness
.8 Irron ferrous
0 Iron ferric
1 Nitrates
7.2 PH
32 T.D.S
Recommendation from first company:
- CSP844 +HMF
$1860.00 to purchase, lease option also offered at $35.00 per month plus $275.00 install, first salt $81.00, first filter $50.00
Water test from second company 5/16/11
- Total Hardness 1 g/g as CaCo
- TDS 20 mg/l
- Iron .22
- Nitrates 0.0 mg/l
- Manganese 0.019 mg/l
- pH 6.88
- Alkalinity 15 mg/l
- Saturation Index -2.76
- Total Comp Hardness 2 g/g as CaCo
- Recommendation # 1 from second company: Big Blue #10 sediment filter with 30 micron cartridge and ProMate 32,000 gr water softener H100 10x44. Installation, first salt and filter $2,777.75
- Recommendation #2 from second company: ProMate 5.0 (10x44), PCM 10 Chemical feed/PH Correction w/out meter, Big Blue filter with 30 micron filter, first salt and installation. $3,595.00
Test by 3rd company
Ph 60
Iron 1 PPM
- nothing else listed in their test.
Third company recommendation: Fleck model #5654. Tank filled with 1 cu ft of resin and 3/4 cu ft of calcite. They also stated that the calcite will need to be replaced every few years. $600.00 Installed
Thanks for your help!
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I'm looking for a little help with water treatment/softeners, sorry for the lengthy post.. I have read through some previous posts but without knowing much about this topic I'm asking for recommendations from the forum. I have a cabin with a sand point well, the water is clear and doesn't have any oder, but I do have rust stains in my toilets. I've received conflicting quotes from three different company's. Below are my water tests and a range of solutions/prices. Each contractor said their solution will correct my water yet the pricing varies by as much as $3000.00.
Some help sorting this out and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to move forward but want to make sure I select the best, most cost effective solution. Thanks in advance for your help. Please let me know if you need more information.
Water tests from fist company 3/5/11
2 Hardness
1.4 Iron Clearwater
0 Iron, ferric
1 Nitrates
6.6 PH
5/13/11
2 Hardness
.8 Irron ferrous
0 Iron ferric
1 Nitrates
7.2 PH
32 T.D.S
Recommendation from first company:
- CSP844 +HMF
$1860.00 to purchase, lease option also offered at $35.00 per month plus $275.00 install, first salt $81.00, first filter $50.00
Water test from second company 5/16/11
- Total Hardness 1 g/g as CaCo
- TDS 20 mg/l
- Iron .22
- Nitrates 0.0 mg/l
- Manganese 0.019 mg/l
- pH 6.88
- Alkalinity 15 mg/l
- Saturation Index -2.76
- Total Comp Hardness 2 g/g as CaCo
- Recommendation # 1 from second company: Big Blue #10 sediment filter with 30 micron cartridge and ProMate 32,000 gr water softener H100 10x44. Installation, first salt and filter $2,777.75
- Recommendation #2 from second company: ProMate 5.0 (10x44), PCM 10 Chemical feed/PH Correction w/out meter, Big Blue filter with 30 micron filter, first salt and installation. $3,595.00
Test by 3rd company
Ph 60
Iron 1 PPM
- nothing else listed in their test.
Third company recommendation: Fleck model #5654. Tank filled with 1 cu ft of resin and 3/4 cu ft of calcite. They also stated that the calcite will need to be replaced every few years. $600.00 Installed
Thanks for your help!
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