Wesley Mansfield
New Member
Hi all, I just had my water tested and came up with an extremely low PH of 4.9 I knew the water was acidic since I had tested it myself, but this confirms my suspicions. Hardness is 51 ppm, TDS 400 ppm.
With PH that low, most places seem to be suggesting a soda ash injection system. If thats my only option than I guess I have to come to terms with that, but I hate the idea of sticking a system that sounds like it requires a lot of maintenance/tweaking and is fairly expensive to maintain as parts require replacement. Plus from what I read soda ash is a little dangerous to handle.
Would putting an upsized acid neutralizer in work? the Idea would be to increase contact time with the calcite to increase PH to somewhat acceptable levels. Am I going to be burning through calcite with that low of a PH? I'm also guessing this would require the addition of a softener.
My house only has PVC and CPVC plumbing and all the appliances have plastic or SS internals, so really the acidic water is not really hurting anything. The only real issue is that we are getting a gray scum on our bathtub, which I assume is because of the hard water? not sure on that one. If it were not for the gray scum I would just put in a RO system for drinking water and laugh all the way to the bank.
Any thoughts or advice would be very appreciated.
With PH that low, most places seem to be suggesting a soda ash injection system. If thats my only option than I guess I have to come to terms with that, but I hate the idea of sticking a system that sounds like it requires a lot of maintenance/tweaking and is fairly expensive to maintain as parts require replacement. Plus from what I read soda ash is a little dangerous to handle.
Would putting an upsized acid neutralizer in work? the Idea would be to increase contact time with the calcite to increase PH to somewhat acceptable levels. Am I going to be burning through calcite with that low of a PH? I'm also guessing this would require the addition of a softener.
My house only has PVC and CPVC plumbing and all the appliances have plastic or SS internals, so really the acidic water is not really hurting anything. The only real issue is that we are getting a gray scum on our bathtub, which I assume is because of the hard water? not sure on that one. If it were not for the gray scum I would just put in a RO system for drinking water and laugh all the way to the bank.
Any thoughts or advice would be very appreciated.
