adayrider
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The short of the long, we built a new house 200 feet behind old house. (old will be demo'ed)
old house built 1901 well 85' 4" casing and recent water test fom local water place
hardness 19
iron 1.25
ph 8.2
tds655
new house (well 4 weeks old) 240' 5" casing same day same test
hardness 12
iron .25
ph 8.5
tds 345
3 adults for a couple more years at least then 2 someday maybe, 3 full baths no fancy tubs or anything
And I figure it at 6 or 7 gal. a min. from the pump (turn on water wait for pump to kick on turn off water when pump kicks off, measure water till pump kicks on and then time pump. I get about 6 gal and 51 sec. for the pump to build back up)
Had new softner and iron filter installed in old house 12 years ago when we bought the place. Fleck 9000 2 1047 tanks metered and 2510 greensand iron fiter on 12 day timer.
Now the iron filter never work right and would kick out the circut breaker for the well pump. So I just bypassed it for 11 years after fighting with the well pump guy and the softner guy and a bunch of fingure pointing.
The 9000 I have used for 12 years with iron out salt and just lived with the iron stains in toilets and everything else.
I was just going to rebuild the 9000 and the 2510 with new Orings plungers and media in tanks and move them to the new house. But after tearing into the 9000, its going to be close to $700 for parts and media just for the 9000. I can buy a brand new 5600 sxt 48000 for that much and everything is brand new.
So what would you do?
#1 rebuild the 9000,2510 for around $1000 (still not sure how to set them for when and how much to regen and backfluss and all that. what kind of media to buy for each?)
#2 buy new 5600 sxt 48000 and move the 2510 to new house and rebuild the 2510 in a year or 2 when I have less things to do.(5600 sxt seems a lot easier to set up)
#3 Your segestion?
I have the hach 5b coming so I can be more informed this time and get it right.
old house built 1901 well 85' 4" casing and recent water test fom local water place
hardness 19
iron 1.25
ph 8.2
tds655
new house (well 4 weeks old) 240' 5" casing same day same test
hardness 12
iron .25
ph 8.5
tds 345
3 adults for a couple more years at least then 2 someday maybe, 3 full baths no fancy tubs or anything
And I figure it at 6 or 7 gal. a min. from the pump (turn on water wait for pump to kick on turn off water when pump kicks off, measure water till pump kicks on and then time pump. I get about 6 gal and 51 sec. for the pump to build back up)
Had new softner and iron filter installed in old house 12 years ago when we bought the place. Fleck 9000 2 1047 tanks metered and 2510 greensand iron fiter on 12 day timer.
Now the iron filter never work right and would kick out the circut breaker for the well pump. So I just bypassed it for 11 years after fighting with the well pump guy and the softner guy and a bunch of fingure pointing.
The 9000 I have used for 12 years with iron out salt and just lived with the iron stains in toilets and everything else.
I was just going to rebuild the 9000 and the 2510 with new Orings plungers and media in tanks and move them to the new house. But after tearing into the 9000, its going to be close to $700 for parts and media just for the 9000. I can buy a brand new 5600 sxt 48000 for that much and everything is brand new.
So what would you do?
#1 rebuild the 9000,2510 for around $1000 (still not sure how to set them for when and how much to regen and backfluss and all that. what kind of media to buy for each?)
#2 buy new 5600 sxt 48000 and move the 2510 to new house and rebuild the 2510 in a year or 2 when I have less things to do.(5600 sxt seems a lot easier to set up)
#3 Your segestion?
I have the hach 5b coming so I can be more informed this time and get it right.