blub
New Member
Hello,
I recently bought my first home and am new to the whole well system. I am facing a problem and hope that you guys might have some ideas on what I can do to solve it.
First of all, here is my setup:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...authkey=!AF92Uv4y_BimOYE&v=3&ithint=photo,jpg
You can see that I have a chlorination tank and pump to get rid of the strong sulfur smell. The thing is, that it works well on the cold water (and I can measure the chlorine in the water coming out of the tap), but especially in the morning my hot water smells pretty bad (and I don't measure any chlorine). Most days the smell goes away after letting it run for a few minutes. I assume it has something to with the cycling of the water filter and the water softener during the night but haven't figured out what exactly is happening.
Some more information: as you can see, the chlorination pump is triggered by a flow switch between the retention tank and the water filter. Do you guys think that's the right thing to do it? It means that when I drain the retention tank there will be absolutely no chlorine added to it when I refill it. Shouldn't the switch be between the pump/pressure tank and the retention tank?
In my garage I have the water heater, which is coupled with a solar system on the roof. I don't think the solar aspect has anything to do with it though.
Do you guys have any ideas? How can unchlorinated water get into my water heater? Any input is appreciated.
I recently bought my first home and am new to the whole well system. I am facing a problem and hope that you guys might have some ideas on what I can do to solve it.
First of all, here is my setup:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...authkey=!AF92Uv4y_BimOYE&v=3&ithint=photo,jpg
You can see that I have a chlorination tank and pump to get rid of the strong sulfur smell. The thing is, that it works well on the cold water (and I can measure the chlorine in the water coming out of the tap), but especially in the morning my hot water smells pretty bad (and I don't measure any chlorine). Most days the smell goes away after letting it run for a few minutes. I assume it has something to with the cycling of the water filter and the water softener during the night but haven't figured out what exactly is happening.
Some more information: as you can see, the chlorination pump is triggered by a flow switch between the retention tank and the water filter. Do you guys think that's the right thing to do it? It means that when I drain the retention tank there will be absolutely no chlorine added to it when I refill it. Shouldn't the switch be between the pump/pressure tank and the retention tank?
In my garage I have the water heater, which is coupled with a solar system on the roof. I don't think the solar aspect has anything to do with it though.
Do you guys have any ideas? How can unchlorinated water get into my water heater? Any input is appreciated.