Bob in Maryland
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Help? Bought a house. I'm halfway competent at amateur plumbing. Well is 20 years old. Everything was poorly maintained. Hot water smelled of sulfur. Rusty slimy crud in the toilet tanks. I figured iron bacteria and sulfur bacteria but installed a Rusco screen filter a couple months back to start with. Worked halfway OK. Filters fine but has to be cleaned too often. I have a 200 mesh filter screen in there now. Yesterday I shocked the well and ran the water heater up to 140 degrees.
That killed the sulfur smell. Ran 1000 gallons out of the well until chlorine was acceptable. Got a lot of sediment and crud flushed out. Still a bit of the rusty slime but more black sand/grit now. I figure it will settle down in a while. Right now, need to clean the filter like every 10 minutes of running water or the pressure drops too much. The Rusco has a purge valve. The sticky iron bacteria slime won't purge and you have to unscrew the filter and brush it off.
I expect the slime will go away eventually. If I need to shock it again, I can do that. I want a filter that needs minimal fiddling. Had enough trips to the basement at 6AM to clean the filter so my wife can shower. What would be a better filter? Greensand backwash? Bigger mesh on the Rusco? Automatic purge valve for the Rusco? What would work and need a minimum of attention? Bite the bullet and hire a pro? I hate to do that since they seem to know less than I do 80% of the time.
Any suggestions appreciated. There's also a broken Culligan water softener I'd like to get working again. But I can't get parts and will NOT pay them a grand to have some dope come out and lie to me. I'll buy a new one first.
That killed the sulfur smell. Ran 1000 gallons out of the well until chlorine was acceptable. Got a lot of sediment and crud flushed out. Still a bit of the rusty slime but more black sand/grit now. I figure it will settle down in a while. Right now, need to clean the filter like every 10 minutes of running water or the pressure drops too much. The Rusco has a purge valve. The sticky iron bacteria slime won't purge and you have to unscrew the filter and brush it off.
I expect the slime will go away eventually. If I need to shock it again, I can do that. I want a filter that needs minimal fiddling. Had enough trips to the basement at 6AM to clean the filter so my wife can shower. What would be a better filter? Greensand backwash? Bigger mesh on the Rusco? Automatic purge valve for the Rusco? What would work and need a minimum of attention? Bite the bullet and hire a pro? I hate to do that since they seem to know less than I do 80% of the time.
Any suggestions appreciated. There's also a broken Culligan water softener I'd like to get working again. But I can't get parts and will NOT pay them a grand to have some dope come out and lie to me. I'll buy a new one first.