Well Water Filter

[lzicc]

The neighbors have city water. Hopefully it will extend to me soon. My softener is placed after all the filters. I wonder if it would be a good idea to put it first in line of treatment?

It sounds like manganese which precipitates from the water as a black film, usually it occurs in conjunction with iron or iron bacteria. If so, then it isn't sediment being sucked up by the pump, it's a chemical precipitate being deposited on the filter media. Low concentrations can be effectively treated with just the softener, higher concentrations require a "green sand" filtration system.

Ask your neighbors what they are using. Have the water sampled and tested for iron and manganese to see what you are actually working with and then use the data to come up with an effective treatment system.

 

[lzicc]

I hear what you are saying. I guess I'm trying to tweak this the best I can. When I bought the house, there was a single, 1 micron big blue filter. I would change it every 3 months. I should have left well enough alone. Everything worked, I was just trying to buy more filter time. Then I heard about the spin down filter. It sounded like a great idea, but fine silt would stick to the screen and the black magnesium would stick to the silt and bake onto the screen where it wouldn't let the silt spin down when purging.

Sounds like you are trying to solve a major water filtration problem using the pile up method... BUT you can only pile so many filter on before you get to a point where it would have COST less calling in a Specialist... yes an Engineer !

I can tell... you know what you are doing, by you work on the panel, but when is it ok to call in reenforcement !

 

[PILOON]

I have lots of sediment like material in my water,

Filters lasted about a week or 2 so I needed a better solution.

What I used was a swimming pool fine mesh 'sand filter' but needed to adapt it down from inch and a quarter to my 3/4 inch pump line.
Works great!
I now only need to clean that filter every 3 months or so.
I say clean as I merely use a nylon bottle brush to loosed away the fine particles that accumulate.
That same pool filter has been in use for close to 20 years now with no hickups.
Usually cleaning is indicated when the tap flow/pressure tapers off.

 

[lzicc]

I think a sand filter would work well for me. Did you have much pressure drop when adding the sand filter?

I have lots of sediment like material in my water,

Filters lasted about a week or 2 so I needed a better solution.

What I used was a swimming pool fine mesh 'sand filter' but needed to adapt it down from inch and a quarter to my 3/4 inch pump line.
Works great!
I now only need to clean that filter every 3 months or so.
I say clean as I merely use a nylon bottle brush to loosed away the fine particles that accumulate.
That same pool filter has been in use for close to 20 years now with no hickups.
Usually cleaning is indicated when the tap flow/pressure tapers off.

 

[LittleBill21]

what u can do, is add a cistern or small storage tank, let all the water pump into that via a float switch, then use a secondary booster pump to push it through the filters etc. all the sand would drop into the tank and your inlet for your booster could be a couple inches higher, that would reduce most of the filter clogging.

 

[thekkfan]

I run two big blues - sediment in the first and RFFE20-BB Iron cartridge in the second. It has eliminated the brown/rust stains in toilets and sinks. Go through two sediments for every one iron cartridge.

If you have a manganese problem, they offer that too in an iron/mang combo cartridge.

 

[PILOON]

I think a sand filter would work well for me. Did you have much pressure drop when adding the sand filter?

No.
Pressure drop was my indication to clean the filter (every 3 months or so) My wife is my advisor, LOL.
Since my water comes from the lake a mere 3 times a year as during the winter months there is no agitation to stir up the suspended particles.
Works great! 20 or more years now.

 

[goeduck]

The neighbors have city water. Hopefully it will extend to me soon. My softener is placed after all the filters. I wonder if it would be a good idea to put it first in line of treatment?

Careful what you wish for. I had a rental house in the big city here. While vacant I had to pay the the utilities and the city water was $250 per month with no usage. When I called on it they said there are base fees for water, stormwater managment, etc, etc. They get you by the family jewels and cannot stop increasing fees. I love being on a well.

 

[4570Man]

Careful what you wish for. I had a rental house in the big city here. While vacant I had to pay the the utilities and the city water was $250 per month with no usage. When I called on it they said there are base fees for water, stormwater managment, etc, etc. They get you by the family jewels and cannot stop increasing fees. I love being on a well.

Good grief. Our water bill with usage is 1/5 or less that much. The crooked water department that’s more rural would still be 1/3 that.

 

[Cord]

My softener is placed after all the filters. I wonder if it would be a good idea to put it first in line of treatment?

Absolutely not. You’ll pack the granules in and ruin the filter.