sophosis
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Some backstory.. I recently purchased a home in an established neighborhood. Well water. After some time in the home, I started getting blue streaking from the tub faucet to the drain. I gathered that this was going to be copper related pretty quickly. Did some searching. Seems I've stumbled onto this world of water quality.
I bought a cheap water test kit from the hardware store and checked pH. Strips lowest pH color was 6.0, which is what the strip showed in my water. Bought some pool pH test strips.. same result. Bought a medical-use two-color pH test strip set with a low starting range of 4.0. Those strips showed my water to be below 5.5 pH. Bought a Hach 5B kit at the same time and I'm seeing about 2 gpg hardness.
Underhouse plumbing (crawlspace) is PEX. 1" at the balloon tank, reduced to 3/4" from there out. I can nearly fully stand in the crawlspace where the water comes into the house. The space is easily accessible. I need to take a tape measure with me, but ground to floor joists is right around 60" of space. I was thinking of putting the pH filter (and softener if I end up needing it) in the crawlspace.
Right now, it's just me in a home with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. I would like to size things for a family of four so the house is still in good shape, as far as water treatment goes, if I'm to sell the place later down the road.
I've been looking at the Fleck equipment on apluswater.org, for starters. 100% open to other/better suggestions. Not sure on what size tank I should be getting. I still need to try to measure gpm flow for the pump. I have the pump brand and model number, if those will be a good indicator for sizing. The other issue I had been pondering is for drainage, with a backflow model. There's a crawlspace water collection point not far from the water setup that has a 3" drain pipe going for some number of feet under ground out into the yard. Don't know if it would be a bad idea to attempt to use this for backflow drainage.
This ended up being long, but wanted to provide as much info as possible. I'll try to get any other info needed/requested.
Thanks!
I bought a cheap water test kit from the hardware store and checked pH. Strips lowest pH color was 6.0, which is what the strip showed in my water. Bought some pool pH test strips.. same result. Bought a medical-use two-color pH test strip set with a low starting range of 4.0. Those strips showed my water to be below 5.5 pH. Bought a Hach 5B kit at the same time and I'm seeing about 2 gpg hardness.
Underhouse plumbing (crawlspace) is PEX. 1" at the balloon tank, reduced to 3/4" from there out. I can nearly fully stand in the crawlspace where the water comes into the house. The space is easily accessible. I need to take a tape measure with me, but ground to floor joists is right around 60" of space. I was thinking of putting the pH filter (and softener if I end up needing it) in the crawlspace.
Right now, it's just me in a home with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. I would like to size things for a family of four so the house is still in good shape, as far as water treatment goes, if I'm to sell the place later down the road.
I've been looking at the Fleck equipment on apluswater.org, for starters. 100% open to other/better suggestions. Not sure on what size tank I should be getting. I still need to try to measure gpm flow for the pump. I have the pump brand and model number, if those will be a good indicator for sizing. The other issue I had been pondering is for drainage, with a backflow model. There's a crawlspace water collection point not far from the water setup that has a 3" drain pipe going for some number of feet under ground out into the yard. Don't know if it would be a bad idea to attempt to use this for backflow drainage.
This ended up being long, but wanted to provide as much info as possible. I'll try to get any other info needed/requested.
Thanks!
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