Water Filtration Forum?

[CedarChuck]

Anyone know of a good water filter forum? We moved to a property with the only water source being a well (with a pool). And I've been wanting to go deeper into general filtration processes and details.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Not that I have seen but let us know if you find one.

The first step in any water filtration project is to have your source water, in this case your well, tested by an outside independent lab that YOU PAY to test your water. "Free testing" "County testing" etc etc are all like pool store testing ... worthless. You can go online and find any number of independent labs that you can send water to and have it tested out the wahzoo for everything under the sun. It is amazing how many people rely on word of mouth or what their neighbor says. Just get it tested yourself.

Then, once you know what's in your water, you can very quickly narrow your search down. Wells need different levels of filtration depending on what's coming up. If you're lucky and the well is good, all you might really need is a good sized sediment trap to keep and dirt and silt out of your plumbing. If the water is hard or contains iron (many wells do), then filtration gets more expensive.

Also, it's a good idea to have an independent well service company come out and inspect the well and pump. The pump is critical to your water source so it should be the thing that you pay the most attention to.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Also, be careful with contacting water filtration companies up front. All of them will offer to come out and test your water, etc, etc, but what they will really do is come out and give you a hard-sell to buy whatever it is they sell. Many people get snookered into purchasing filtration equipment that is both expensive and totally unnecessary and then they also get hooked on a service contract to boot. It's almost as bad as the pool store industry ... get them through the front door and then pick their wallets clean.

 

[CedarChuck]

Not that I have seen but let us know if you find one.

The first step in any water filtration project is to have your source water, in this case your well, tested by an outside independent lab that YOU PAY to test your water. "Free testing" "County testing" etc etc are all like pool store testing ... worthless. You can go online and find any number of independent labs that you can send water to and have it tested out the wahzoo for everything under the sun. It is amazing how many people rely on word of mouth or what their neighbor says. Just get it tested yourself.

Then, once you know what's in your water, you can very quickly narrow your search down. Wells need different levels of filtration depending on what's coming up. If you're lucky and the well is good, all you might really need is a good sized sediment trap to keep and dirt and silt out of your plumbing. If the water is hard or contains iron (many wells do), then filtration gets more expensive.

Also, it's a good idea to have an independent well service company come out and inspect the well and pump. The pump is critical to your water source so it should be the thing that you pay the most attention to.

Thank you Matt! We did get the well water and equipment inspected before we purchased and the water is hard and has trace bacteria but good other than that. The path leads with a sediment filter but am considering a larger one. The path goes sediment, block carbon, uv, softener and in the kitchen it continues on with an under kitchen sink sediment, carbon, RO and mineral additive. Having the UV prior to the softener is unconventional from what I've read and poses some decisions when doing a filter replacements/line sanitation. Any ways I know this is way off topic from typical TFP topics so will leave it here and post back if I find any similarly good forums focused just on filtration. Love the TFP forum. Its one of the more helpful and though forums I've come across.