Stumped with toilet tank iron, your thoughts would be appreciated...
I’ve had my system set up for over ten years now. Occasionally things go wrong, e.g. seals go bad, and I fix it, but if nothing is going wrong, my water is great. For the last couple of months, I’ve been stumped by toilet tank iron. I’ll clean the bowl and the tank on the back with Iron Out or similar product and only three or four days later I’ll have a coating of iron on everything in the back and light evidence in the bowl. I have a Clorox tablet in the tank which I imagine is helping to precipitate this iron making it more noticeable. I had one guy recommend just removing the chlorine tablet. Sort of like “doc it hurts when I move my arm like this…” he, he. As I’ve not had this problem in the past years using Clorox tablets, I want to know what’s changed. Here’s what I’m thinking, what do you think?
a) my wife and I are flushing the toilets during regeneration (we wake up late on the sofa and go to bed) causing some iron to enter the toilet tanks, I must have tweaked the regeneration times such that this is happening now when it hasn’t in the past, I should just change regeneration times and see what happens
b) early one morning I noticed a surge of brown water when I turned on the bath water before I pulled the shower diverter, and regeneration is resulting in a bit of iron laden water entering the pipes and in the past this water was just going down the tub drain, but something changed (regen time programming and/or toilet use habits) so now it’s going in the toilets, what i should do is: between 12 and 5 am I should just make sure and run some water before flushing the toilets
b) I’m having iron bleed through generally and I need to test my water again, it’s not just the toilets, you just think it is because that's what you notice, you probably have a failing seal or scarred piston or some other hardware related problem, it’s not a programming or toilet use issue, check your hardware again
c) a little earthquake changed our water and I have more iron now, I need to test our raw water again, and need to adjust to compensate
ps I have chlorine injection/retention, tank for pH adjustment with calcite, tank of katalox light for iron filtration, tank of centaur carbon, and a final tank of fine mesh softening resin.
pps I double checked my regeneration times to make sure none of the valve regenerations are overlapping
ppps I just cleaned and replaced media in the calcite and resin tanks and it didn’t fix the problem
I’ve had my system set up for over ten years now. Occasionally things go wrong, e.g. seals go bad, and I fix it, but if nothing is going wrong, my water is great. For the last couple of months, I’ve been stumped by toilet tank iron. I’ll clean the bowl and the tank on the back with Iron Out or similar product and only three or four days later I’ll have a coating of iron on everything in the back and light evidence in the bowl. I have a Clorox tablet in the tank which I imagine is helping to precipitate this iron making it more noticeable. I had one guy recommend just removing the chlorine tablet. Sort of like “doc it hurts when I move my arm like this…” he, he. As I’ve not had this problem in the past years using Clorox tablets, I want to know what’s changed. Here’s what I’m thinking, what do you think?
a) my wife and I are flushing the toilets during regeneration (we wake up late on the sofa and go to bed) causing some iron to enter the toilet tanks, I must have tweaked the regeneration times such that this is happening now when it hasn’t in the past, I should just change regeneration times and see what happens
b) early one morning I noticed a surge of brown water when I turned on the bath water before I pulled the shower diverter, and regeneration is resulting in a bit of iron laden water entering the pipes and in the past this water was just going down the tub drain, but something changed (regen time programming and/or toilet use habits) so now it’s going in the toilets, what i should do is: between 12 and 5 am I should just make sure and run some water before flushing the toilets
b) I’m having iron bleed through generally and I need to test my water again, it’s not just the toilets, you just think it is because that's what you notice, you probably have a failing seal or scarred piston or some other hardware related problem, it’s not a programming or toilet use issue, check your hardware again
c) a little earthquake changed our water and I have more iron now, I need to test our raw water again, and need to adjust to compensate
ps I have chlorine injection/retention, tank for pH adjustment with calcite, tank of katalox light for iron filtration, tank of centaur carbon, and a final tank of fine mesh softening resin.
pps I double checked my regeneration times to make sure none of the valve regenerations are overlapping
ppps I just cleaned and replaced media in the calcite and resin tanks and it didn’t fix the problem