Having your home on well water and septic is not necessarily a bad thing but you must have the knowledge of what it means as far as care and upkeep and be willing to do the upkeep or pay the professional to do it right.
With a well drilled inyour yard, it means that your main water source is coming from the ground in your yard. No lengthy pipes from a aquifier or other public water source to be concerned with. In most cases they have high content of clorine as a disenfectant that you ingest or take in your pours as you shower. That can have its own special problems and is not what this blog is about. We are addressing well water.
The water comes from your own well but the water quality can vary from place to place and can be different from the next door neighbors. The depth of the well, the rocks that surround it and the amount of minerals can vary greatly from one lot to the next. How it is determined as to what is needed for a treatment for your particular water can only be accomplished through testing the water. Then depending on the results, a recomendation can be made as to the best course of action for treatment.
SW FL water is hard. So a softener is first priority. If you don't soften the water your laundry will be affected. You will utilize more soap, it won't clean well and willyellow whites. As you shower, you will feel chalky and won't feel clean. Your hair will be knotted and shampoo won't feel like it is cleaning. A simple water softening system that conditions whole home is how this is accomplished. The water comes from your well, runs into a tank that is filled with a resin material. The sesin material attracts the hard molecules from the water and allows it to trap the hardness within the resin beads but releases the soft water out of the tank. The resin can only hold so much of the hardness before it needs to lose that hardness and be recharges to handle more. This is where the process gets more compicated. The systems are set to backwash themselves. This needs to be set by a timer to do so when it needs to be done and at such a time when no one is using the water and before all the resins are out of charge. This is all determined on water usage which is dertermined bases on number of people in the home. This regeneration process is when the salt crystals are ulilized in the system. The backwash utilizes the salt which is what's removes the hard ions in the resin and releases it and it is washed out of the system and drained in the yard outside the softener tank. Simple right? Not really. There is stll another thing we have not mentioned. Hard water is only one of the issues here with our water.
Have you ever smelled the water here in SW Florida? It stinks. It smells like rotten eggs. This is due to sulfer content in the water. Also heavy iron content can be another thing that needs to be addressed. In some cases there is a an aerator that can be installed that uses no chemicals to remove the sulfer and some iron content. Sometimes the sulfer content is too high for this system and a fulfer remover system is what is needed. At times an iron remover is needed deo to the levels of iron. Again, the
only way to know is proper testing.
As far as the service of the equipment, the prventive mantainence of all the equipment, timers and recharge settings as well as salt delivery should be handled by a licensed company. There is too much that can go wrong and that can be eliminated by proper caring of these systems.
AAA Realty LLC principles own and operate AAA's Always Clear Water Inc. They are committed to providing water equipment sales service and repairs for AAA Realty LLC as well as the SW Florida community.
For more information on the water systems we offer or service we provide, you can go to http://www.alwaysclearwater.net or more on AAA Realty LLC property management services go to http://www.aaarealtyllc.com
Cheers for now and untill next time,
Tammy Rodriguez
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