HealthfullyHeidi
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We're on a well, had an old chlorination system and softener replaced with a new AIO iron/sulfur filter w/Katalox lite media with a Clack valve installed. Had the existing softener rebedded. Also added a peroxide system to kill bacteria. The new system works great at softening the water and removing iron, sulfur, and bacteria. The "problem" is that we now have those micro air bubbles throughout the entire house.
Small caveat: Upon initial install, we had an ozone system installed, not a peroxide system. We noticed the bubbles and told our guy about it. He suspected that the ozone wasn't working properly so he took it off to take it back to test it. In the meantime, I believe the air bubbles went away, but I can't remember 100%. We opted to change to a peroxide system so we could manually increase/decrease sanitation as necessary. Sulfur bacteria was a problem for us. Once the peroxide system was installed, air bubbles came back.
Installation company is baffled, said their parts vendor said it "just happens sometimes with the AIO's" but he's never seen it remain consistent like ours is. The AIO regens every night. Cycles are set at: 20 sec backwash air, 10 min backwash, 60 min draw down. The softener regens every 3-5 days (I can't remember which). We've tried changing the draw down time to 30 min, no change. Tried changing the backwash to 60 sec, no change. We also thought it might be the peroxide system but I've done a manual regen of both tanks with the peroxide off and no change. I know it's not hurting anything to have those micro air bubbles in the water but it just looks funny. It's worst at the sink closest to the system. Water comes out stark white and takes a few minutes to fully clear up.
What can be done to fix this? Everything I've read said to reduce the draw down time but that didn't work. HELP!
Small caveat: Upon initial install, we had an ozone system installed, not a peroxide system. We noticed the bubbles and told our guy about it. He suspected that the ozone wasn't working properly so he took it off to take it back to test it. In the meantime, I believe the air bubbles went away, but I can't remember 100%. We opted to change to a peroxide system so we could manually increase/decrease sanitation as necessary. Sulfur bacteria was a problem for us. Once the peroxide system was installed, air bubbles came back.
Installation company is baffled, said their parts vendor said it "just happens sometimes with the AIO's" but he's never seen it remain consistent like ours is. The AIO regens every night. Cycles are set at: 20 sec backwash air, 10 min backwash, 60 min draw down. The softener regens every 3-5 days (I can't remember which). We've tried changing the draw down time to 30 min, no change. Tried changing the backwash to 60 sec, no change. We also thought it might be the peroxide system but I've done a manual regen of both tanks with the peroxide off and no change. I know it's not hurting anything to have those micro air bubbles in the water but it just looks funny. It's worst at the sink closest to the system. Water comes out stark white and takes a few minutes to fully clear up.
What can be done to fix this? Everything I've read said to reduce the draw down time but that didn't work. HELP!