Moriarty403
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I'm a first time home owner and have never lived on a well before. I moved in on March 1st this year and the water softener has been a nightmare from day 1. Any help/advice/ideas you could provide is much appreciated. Here's the story...
The well was shocked the week before we moved in because of the presence of bacterial contamination and a new water heater was installed around the same time. The first week the water was fine, but then it started to smell strongly of iron. The system contains a Culligan big blue iron filter with a 5 micron filter, I replaced that and it seemed to fix the issue (*just replaced it again two weeks ago). A few days later the water started to smell like hydrogen sulfide, after troubleshooting for a while we had the anode removed from the new water heater. That solved the rotten egg problem, but the water was still really off - very hard (leaving lots of residue in dish washer) and smelled like iron on and off. I've tried changing the settings to every recommended setting and nothing has worked. Last week I cleaned the brine tank and it only made the problem worse. I'm getting desperate and have no idea what to do now! I was going to replace the brine control valve (I think that's the name?), but it seems to be working fine.
These are the current settings for my Culligan Medallist + Series 30 + 45 softminder and clock Series # 2604B 0133:
sltp 15 - just increased from 10 yesterday
buu 10
br 65
capg 87 - this is the setting it was on when I moved in
tcb 2 - just decreased from 3 yesterday
dlp1 - ser
dlp2 - del
dlp3 - sof
dlp4 - on
dlp5 - en
dlp6 - 12hr
dlp7 - 3-4
I'm hoping that the change in the settings will help, but it seemed worse today. Any ideas? I don't know how old the system is, but I don't think it's more than 9 or 10 years old. Has the resin fouled? Are the settings wrong? Could it be the well itself?
The well was shocked the week before we moved in because of the presence of bacterial contamination and a new water heater was installed around the same time. The first week the water was fine, but then it started to smell strongly of iron. The system contains a Culligan big blue iron filter with a 5 micron filter, I replaced that and it seemed to fix the issue (*just replaced it again two weeks ago). A few days later the water started to smell like hydrogen sulfide, after troubleshooting for a while we had the anode removed from the new water heater. That solved the rotten egg problem, but the water was still really off - very hard (leaving lots of residue in dish washer) and smelled like iron on and off. I've tried changing the settings to every recommended setting and nothing has worked. Last week I cleaned the brine tank and it only made the problem worse. I'm getting desperate and have no idea what to do now! I was going to replace the brine control valve (I think that's the name?), but it seems to be working fine.
These are the current settings for my Culligan Medallist + Series 30 + 45 softminder and clock Series # 2604B 0133:
sltp 15 - just increased from 10 yesterday
buu 10
br 65
capg 87 - this is the setting it was on when I moved in
tcb 2 - just decreased from 3 yesterday
dlp1 - ser
dlp2 - del
dlp3 - sof
dlp4 - on
dlp5 - en
dlp6 - 12hr
dlp7 - 3-4
I'm hoping that the change in the settings will help, but it seemed worse today. Any ideas? I don't know how old the system is, but I don't think it's more than 9 or 10 years old. Has the resin fouled? Are the settings wrong? Could it be the well itself?