Chris Catinella
New Member
We bought this house about 2.5 years ago, and just before we bought it a new well was drilled, and a new pressure tank and softener installed. I recently added a whole house filter with a spin down sediment separator after the pressure tank, then it goes into a cotton spun filter, then the softener. Out of the softener there is a two stage granular activated carbon, then an activated carbon block. It's a big 4.5 x 20" filter system because I wanted high flow and to not have to change it a lot.
This change had made me notice some things and question a lot about my system.
Where is all the air coming from? I'm pretty handy, so is there something I can do at the well end to check if I'm sucking air? I'm nto sure what pump I have or if there is a check valve in the well. I know I have a check valve in the basement just before the pressure tank.
Lastly, if there really is this much iron getting pumped into my pressure tank and system, is my pump OK? Is my tank OK? Is the well itself in a bad spot? There is so much iron that when I installed the filters I noticed that the inside of the PEX tubing had a thick layer (maybe 1/16") of caked iron inside.
This change had made me notice some things and question a lot about my system.
- As soon as I pressurized the system I noticed tons of iron chips getting stuck in the spin down filter, and the cotton spun filter started to turn iron red. At first I thought this was great that I'm capturing all this sediment, but before this upgrade we would only occasionally get a little dirty water, but I was only getting it times with the softener cycling, and there where never any particles coming out the faucets or in the toilet, so I can only assume it was all getting trapped in my softener.
- At first start up of this new system I bled the air and could see the system was full. No air or sputtering from the faucets either. Over time I noticed that a large bubble of air formed in the spin down separator, and in the cotton filter (both these stages are clear so I can see this). I can't see into the softener (obviously), nor the final two stages.
Where is all the air coming from? I'm pretty handy, so is there something I can do at the well end to check if I'm sucking air? I'm nto sure what pump I have or if there is a check valve in the well. I know I have a check valve in the basement just before the pressure tank.
Lastly, if there really is this much iron getting pumped into my pressure tank and system, is my pump OK? Is my tank OK? Is the well itself in a bad spot? There is so much iron that when I installed the filters I noticed that the inside of the PEX tubing had a thick layer (maybe 1/16") of caked iron inside.