Hello,
My wife and I moved into a house 3 years ago with bad water. We invested in a higher end Kinnetico system thinking we should nip it in the bud, but our water never really improved to the point we wanted it to. This spring after much frustration with the company that sold us that softener we decided to hit the reset button and take stock of the current water coming into our home.
Water tests have provided results of 110 grains of hardness, 9 grains of manganese, and 4 grains of iron. PH was normal. The softener installed was only taking out up to 70 something grains of hardness and not sure it was really touching the iron and manganese all that much. The best company we have had come look at the water and pitch us on a sanitizer/conditioner combo to remove everything. It costs $6,000 up front with an estimated $2,000/year in salt. It's the yearly salt that usage that gets me. And this is all on top of dumping our old system that costs $2,7000 and was supposed to last 20+ years (any takers?).
We've also tried to determine why our water changed so much over the past three years - the hardness was initially 58, then 72, and now over 100. We have narrowed it down to a crack in the well casing letting in ground water or the water tables changing sourcing our well, but haven't come across a way to actually discern which it could be (and how we could even fix either).
At this point we are wondering if digging a new well and hoping for better water is a more cost effective option than fixing a cost of $2,000 per year in salt. One other option is there is an old concrete well pad in the woods 100-150 feet from the house (current well is ~50 feet from house) - I am wondering if this could be used as an alternative as I assume running a pipe from there would be far cheaper (and less unknown) than trying to dig a new well.
So, to conclude - we have three options as I see it. We could go with a new system and spend $6,000 up front and $2,000 per year on salt, we could try digging a new well for $5,000-10,000 with no guarantee the water is any better, or we could explore the long shot of having this old concrete well be a water source for our home. This has been a huge source of frustration for us, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
My wife and I moved into a house 3 years ago with bad water. We invested in a higher end Kinnetico system thinking we should nip it in the bud, but our water never really improved to the point we wanted it to. This spring after much frustration with the company that sold us that softener we decided to hit the reset button and take stock of the current water coming into our home.
Water tests have provided results of 110 grains of hardness, 9 grains of manganese, and 4 grains of iron. PH was normal. The softener installed was only taking out up to 70 something grains of hardness and not sure it was really touching the iron and manganese all that much. The best company we have had come look at the water and pitch us on a sanitizer/conditioner combo to remove everything. It costs $6,000 up front with an estimated $2,000/year in salt. It's the yearly salt that usage that gets me. And this is all on top of dumping our old system that costs $2,7000 and was supposed to last 20+ years (any takers?).
We've also tried to determine why our water changed so much over the past three years - the hardness was initially 58, then 72, and now over 100. We have narrowed it down to a crack in the well casing letting in ground water or the water tables changing sourcing our well, but haven't come across a way to actually discern which it could be (and how we could even fix either).
At this point we are wondering if digging a new well and hoping for better water is a more cost effective option than fixing a cost of $2,000 per year in salt. One other option is there is an old concrete well pad in the woods 100-150 feet from the house (current well is ~50 feet from house) - I am wondering if this could be used as an alternative as I assume running a pipe from there would be far cheaper (and less unknown) than trying to dig a new well.
So, to conclude - we have three options as I see it. We could go with a new system and spend $6,000 up front and $2,000 per year on salt, we could try digging a new well for $5,000-10,000 with no guarantee the water is any better, or we could explore the long shot of having this old concrete well be a water source for our home. This has been a huge source of frustration for us, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!