Jim Goodman
JEG in Raleigh
Not sure if I'm in the right forum for this question because I'm not sure if this is a filtration problem or a plumbing problem, but I'd like to start here. This morning I had something unusual happen. After getting up, I went to brush my teeth and the water coming out of my sink in our MBA had a brown tint to it and tasted terrible. I checked the water at my wife's sink and it was the same. I let the water at both sinks run for several minutes and it seems to have cleared up. I checked a couple of other sinks in the house and they did not have this problem. This has never ever happened before and the water at those two fixtures was fine last night when we went to bed.
We are on a well (800' deep). The house is plumbed with Uponor PEX. The pressure tank is in the house mechanical room. I have a Cycle Stop Valve on the system prior to the pressure tank. Water comes out of the pressure tank........ goes through a backwash filter with Katalox LIght filter media.....comes out of that filter...... and goes through a cartridge sediment filter.......comes out of that and goes through a UV bacteria filter.......comes out of that and has hydrogen peroxide injected into the flow with a static inline mixer to mix the H2O2 into the water.......goes through a catalytic carbon backwash filter......comes out and goes through a water softener........comes out of the softener and goes to the house. I have a RO filter on the kitchen drinking water but not on any other faucets in the house. I do use the water out of the MBA faucet when I brush my teeth. We have been in the house for 5 years and I have had the water tested by the county 3 times, both pre and post-filtration and the water is good. The RO filter in the kitchen was completely clean when the filters were checked in October for their annual service. The sediment filter that follows the Katalox Light backwash filter needs changing once a year, so the backwash filter is filtering any sediment well before it hits the cartridge filter.
All 3 backwash devices purged last night, separated by 1.5-hour schedules. One other note is that we had 4 inches of rain in one day last week which conceivably could have had some impact on the water migrating through the aquifer to the well.
I would like to know and try to address, what the possible explanations are for the water in only one pair of fixtures next to each other most definitely not being right this morning, with a very visible brown color and definite bad taste in a PEX system. I'm a retired builder and am capable of doing some piping and have the tools to work with Uponor piping. Thanks!
We are on a well (800' deep). The house is plumbed with Uponor PEX. The pressure tank is in the house mechanical room. I have a Cycle Stop Valve on the system prior to the pressure tank. Water comes out of the pressure tank........ goes through a backwash filter with Katalox LIght filter media.....comes out of that filter...... and goes through a cartridge sediment filter.......comes out of that and goes through a UV bacteria filter.......comes out of that and has hydrogen peroxide injected into the flow with a static inline mixer to mix the H2O2 into the water.......goes through a catalytic carbon backwash filter......comes out and goes through a water softener........comes out of the softener and goes to the house. I have a RO filter on the kitchen drinking water but not on any other faucets in the house. I do use the water out of the MBA faucet when I brush my teeth. We have been in the house for 5 years and I have had the water tested by the county 3 times, both pre and post-filtration and the water is good. The RO filter in the kitchen was completely clean when the filters were checked in October for their annual service. The sediment filter that follows the Katalox Light backwash filter needs changing once a year, so the backwash filter is filtering any sediment well before it hits the cartridge filter.
All 3 backwash devices purged last night, separated by 1.5-hour schedules. One other note is that we had 4 inches of rain in one day last week which conceivably could have had some impact on the water migrating through the aquifer to the well.
I would like to know and try to address, what the possible explanations are for the water in only one pair of fixtures next to each other most definitely not being right this morning, with a very visible brown color and definite bad taste in a PEX system. I'm a retired builder and am capable of doing some piping and have the tools to work with Uponor piping. Thanks!
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