Posts tagged 'Water Testing'

A good detailed water analysis is vitally important, especially if you are on well water.  A thorough water analysis is like a blood test or x-ray for your water and is the ONLY way that you can really know what is in your water so that you can properly treat it.  The problem is:  many water tests are expensive and if they aren’t, they are not very accurate. Before I tell you the best way to ...

That's a fair question because if you go to most websites you cannot really discover who you are dealing with.  I mean, when you buy from Amazon, you know that they are this behemoth and Jeff Bezos is the CEO and you can read books and articles about Amazon and Jeff to understand who you are dealing with... in case you are from another planet.  But when you buy a water softener or reverse osmosi...

QUESTION: Hello, We have well water that was tested 4 days ago; No iron, ph 7.1, hardness GPG 29. We tested a second sample that was treated through a whole house system from Aquasana. The treated water tested 21 GPG hardness. We are miserable with this product. My hair is damaged, skin is dry, fixtures are coated. There is sandy grit in the water and we have 3 sediment filters hooked up. Two fr...

QUESTION: I have been researching systems till I am ready to slit my throat. So many inconsistencies on the web. I live in Temecula, CA.  Our water is 184 mg per liter / 10.7 per gallon. The water flow in our house (10 years old) is terrible. I am ready to replace the hot water heater and all of the shower valves. Before I do I know I need a system. We have a 5 bed/5 bath house but only 3 peo...

Actually, before you ask that question, you really should ask "Is there really such a thing as a salt free water softener?" You see, some companies are selling what they call "salt free water softeners" as well as "salt water softeners."  That begs the question:  If salt free water softeners worked, why on God's Green Earth would they sell salt water softeners?  No one would buy them. Salt wat...

No, you should never get your water tested - you might find out that something in there is bad for you or you might learn how to treat it properly and who wants to do that?  What are you - Crazy?  Treating your water should be hit and miss proposition.  What good is it to do it scientifically and get it right?  Just mess around with it... try this... try that.... maybe it will work... maybe it...

Q.  I have iron bacteria and my well company gave me a backwashing carbon and some other white media that goes on the bottom is that going to eliminate my problem? A.  Based upon what you have told me, I would say there are two chances:  Slim and None!  Before you do anything, do this first: https://www.uswatersystems.com/us-water-lab-water-test.html  ________________________________...

John asks: I have a water softener and a pre-filter ahead of my Reverse Osmosis System.  How often should I change the filters? The Water Doctor replied: Water quality varies so much that it is impossible to give you an accurate answer.  For example, some water is more turbid and contains more solids.  Water that looks substantially the same could plug a filter in a month... or a year.  T...

"Isn't that wonderful that Big Name Water Conditioning Company is going to send out a Water Consultant and give us a water analysis absolutely free?"  Maybe you have experienced that and it sounds great, but let me remind you that you usually don't get anything for free without some strings attached.   There are exceptions and before I start, I would like to say that there are some very pro...

Brian wrote this: "3 years ago one of our wells on the farm ran dry in the summer months and we had a well drilled near the house to get us going again. I found a local well driller that was able to come over the next day and started drilling. He used a modern drill system and soon was at 285 feet though shale and bed rock. The casing is 6” and 20 feet deep. As a final attempt to get more wat...

Radioactivity has been in the news a lot lately. On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Japan began to leak radioactive material due to the Tōhoku tsunami and earthquake. The disaster was rated Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale—only Chernobyl has rated as high.  The disaster continues to affect the people of Japan, and the global population at large. When m...

This is a question that we hear almost all the time.  Some people will say "Well, I've got the worst water you have ever seen, so just quote me a system for that."  If you have the worst water we have ever seen, then it will probably cost a quarter of a million dollars to fix it.  Odds are, we have seen a lot worse water than what you have, even if it seems that awful to you.  There are se...