Hi All,
Hope everyone is keeping well during these strange times.
With all this spare time on our hands I’ve found myself thinking about jobs around our smallholding.
One of the main things that annoys me and needs attention is our private water supply. I’ve been doing some reading up but found my brain getting fried with all the terminology.
Basically our issue is that our toilets and sinks often get orange water stains and sometimes our boiled water turns orange. The water doesn’t taste very nice out the tap either, my wife describes it as a bloody taste.
We have a treatment shed which consists of a pressure cylinder, a softener with brine tank, a mesh filter and UV lamp. There’s also another big blue cylinder that I believe is another filter of sorts (it was added when we bought the house as it failed the water test)
The softener valve head is temperamental due to poor servicing from the last owners, I find myself having to manual force a regeneration usually after we notice the boiling water is orange. There’s other times when it seems to regenerate every day. The memory battery connector is knackered which isn’t helping imo. This results in excessive salt tablet usage. My plan is to add a microcontroller at some point and integrate into our home automation system so I have better control on what it’s doing and when
My main question is what maintenance should be carried out on the resin in the tank, can we change the medium or is it a case of replacing the full softener system?
Is there anything else we should look to add to the system to help stop the orange staining problem? Been reading up about reverse osmosis filters but not sure if this would benefit us any?
Is it worth adding a TDS sensor to indicate if the filtering is doing an adequate job?
Any advice is appreciated
Thanks