sand point well has bad smell
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Farwell
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Do a Google search on how to bleach your well. There is a right way and a wrong way. If you have a water softener bypass it when you bleach. Bleach will destroy the resin in the water softener. Probably a good idea to by pass the hot water heater as well. There is a formula for the amount of bleach to use for the size well you have.
My well calls for a gallon of household bleach diluted with water in a five gallon bucket. I slowly add the 5 gallons to the well pipe. I run a hose from the pressure tank drain to the opening of the well pipe, bypass all of the household plumbing and open the pressure tank drain valve to let the water circulate from the well to the pressure tank and back into the well. I do this for about and hour. I then open house cold water faucets until I smell the bleach/water coming from the valve. I then close the valves and let the bleach sit in the plumbing for about an hour. Then I flush the system for approximately 4 hours using an out side hydrant to keep from adding all the bleach/water to my septic system. Then I flush the inside plumbing until the bleach smell goes away.
This has worked for me but it sometimes takes a while for the bleach smell to go completely away.
I have tried Brita filters but the smell seems to pass through them. I have not used the charcoal filters but am going to give them a try.
Farwell
My well calls for a gallon of household bleach diluted with water in a five gallon bucket. I slowly add the 5 gallons to the well pipe. I run a hose from the pressure tank drain to the opening of the well pipe, bypass all of the household plumbing and open the pressure tank drain valve to let the water circulate from the well to the pressure tank and back into the well. I do this for about and hour. I then open house cold water faucets until I smell the bleach/water coming from the valve. I then close the valves and let the bleach sit in the plumbing for about an hour. Then I flush the system for approximately 4 hours using an out side hydrant to keep from adding all the bleach/water to my septic system. Then I flush the inside plumbing until the bleach smell goes away.
This has worked for me but it sometimes takes a while for the bleach smell to go completely away.
I have tried Brita filters but the smell seems to pass through them. I have not used the charcoal filters but am going to give them a try.
Farwell
Farwell
Veteran Member
Do a Google search on how to bleach your well. There is a right way and a wrong way. If you have a water softener bypass it when you bleach. Bleach will destroy the resin in the water softener. Probably a good idea to by pass the hot water heater as well. There is a formula for the amount of bleach to use for the size well you have.
My well calls for a gallon of household bleach diluted with water in a five gallon bucket. I slowly add the 5 gallons to the well pipe. I run a hose from the pressure tank drain to the opening of the well pipe, bypass all of the household plumbing and open the pressure tank drain valve to let the water circulate from the well to the pressure tank and back into the well. I do this for about and hour. I then open house cold water faucets until I smell the bleach/water coming from the valve. I then close the valves and let the bleach sit in the plumbing for about an hour. Then I flush the system for approximately 4 hours using an out side hydrant to keep from adding all the bleach/water to my septic system. Then I flush the inside plumbing until the bleach smell goes away.
This has worked for me but it sometimes takes a while for the bleach smell to go completely away.
I have tried Brita filters but the smell seems to pass through them. I have not used the charcoal filters but am going to give them a try.
Farwell
My well calls for a gallon of household bleach diluted with water in a five gallon bucket. I slowly add the 5 gallons to the well pipe. I run a hose from the pressure tank drain to the opening of the well pipe, bypass all of the household plumbing and open the pressure tank drain valve to let the water circulate from the well to the pressure tank and back into the well. I do this for about and hour. I then open house cold water faucets until I smell the bleach/water coming from the valve. I then close the valves and let the bleach sit in the plumbing for about an hour. Then I flush the system for approximately 4 hours using an out side hydrant to keep from adding all the bleach/water to my septic system. Then I flush the inside plumbing until the bleach smell goes away.
This has worked for me but it sometimes takes a while for the bleach smell to go completely away.
I have tried Brita filters but the smell seems to pass through them. I have not used the charcoal filters but am going to give them a try.
Farwell
ericbx1500
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I have the same smell with mine. I do have a whole house filter with a carbon filter element which takes the smell away but when it returns I just change the filter and I’m good to go for about three to four weeks. )</font>
I mean charcoal filters not carbon /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
I mean charcoal filters not carbon /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
ericbx1500
Gold Member
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I have the same smell with mine. I do have a whole house filter with a carbon filter element which takes the smell away but when it returns I just change the filter and I’m good to go for about three to four weeks. )</font>
I mean charcoal filters not carbon /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
I mean charcoal filters not carbon /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
scott_vt
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Mornin Rojer,
Im thinking that you go to this cabin on the weekends? If thats the case try this. Drain your holding tank and your hotwater tank, and remember to turn off breaker to hotwater tank /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Upon returning the following weekend, turn water back on along with the hotwater heater and see if that helps. Quite often if you have miminal amount of sulphur
in your water this trick can work! Good luck!
Im thinking that you go to this cabin on the weekends? If thats the case try this. Drain your holding tank and your hotwater tank, and remember to turn off breaker to hotwater tank /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Upon returning the following weekend, turn water back on along with the hotwater heater and see if that helps. Quite often if you have miminal amount of sulphur
in your water this trick can work! Good luck!
scott_vt
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Mornin Rojer,
Im thinking that you go to this cabin on the weekends? If thats the case try this. Drain your holding tank and your hotwater tank, and remember to turn off breaker to hotwater tank /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Upon returning the following weekend, turn water back on along with the hotwater heater and see if that helps. Quite often if you have miminal amount of sulphur
in your water this trick can work! Good luck!
Im thinking that you go to this cabin on the weekends? If thats the case try this. Drain your holding tank and your hotwater tank, and remember to turn off breaker to hotwater tank /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Upon returning the following weekend, turn water back on along with the hotwater heater and see if that helps. Quite often if you have miminal amount of sulphur
in your water this trick can work! Good luck!
