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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
My Wife Says Our Well Water Tastes Like Bicarb
I can barely tell the difference between it and what comes out the refrigerator filtered water. (I am not a water aficionado.) Tests say it is soft. We recently had an ineffective Kinetico water system replaced with an iron filter and carbon post-filter.
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ReplyDeleteIs it naturally soft, or do you have a softener? (All the well water I've had has been incredibly hard) Salt softeners usually add a taste. (My dad bypassed the softener for one faucet in the kitchen for drinking water.)
ReplyDeleteI've been happy with a Britta filter, though I'm thinking of upgrading - I can't remember the name but there is a filter that pulls out fluoride. They aren't cheap. But for one person the filtering pitchers are a good size.
Most people are happy with the Berkey filters, but they are expensive (countertop item, gravity-fed filter.)
Water test says it is soft.
DeleteConventional wisdom is that it's either caused by the water being excessively alkaline, or that you've got dissolved copper and/or zinc.
ReplyDeleteOur 2nd home has well water taste, odor, and staining issues, and after a few iterations of "it's probably this" I've decided (before springing for a peroxide dosing system) that I should really just send a water sample to the vendor I'd buy the equipment from, as they have a $50 service to characterize the minerals present and based on that their specialists will suggest the best means of treatment.
In my neighborhood we've all got wells and it is amazing to me how different the water is between the various houses.
I started with the online water quality quiz at https://www.cleanwaterstore.com/well-water-testing-well-water-treatment.html
Does the water taste the same straight out of the pressure tank (before any filtration)?
ReplyDeleteWe have a lot of limestone in the water and an ion-exchange water softener very helpfully converts the limestone (calcium carbonate) into washing soda (sodium carbonate), which has a rather bitter taste. Interestingly, the pre-softened water tastes fine. It is just very hard on pipes and fixtures...
Our solution is to use a reverse-osmosis system on the drinking water, but swapping ions around in water can lead to interesting results.
Pressure tank is post-filtration, I think. There is no water softener.
DeleteWe use a commercial grade twin tank water softener, and a kitchen sink-mounted reverse osmosis drinking water faucet. The tank is located in crawlspace and is also routed to reefer water supply. The system uses the RO membrane and multiple filters. Culligan installed it. 100% clear fresh water.
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