How long does it take to get well water test results back?
Kelsey Janak
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Well Water Test Results
Comments (6)Hi library girl, We closed on the house on Thursday, so we haven't had a lot of experience with the water. However, I can tell you this. With no softener (just the UV filter and a new pressure/holding tank) the water is pretty darn good, from my point of view. The dishwasher in the house is older than me, I'm fairly certain, and there aren't any signs of rust on the inside. The glasses come out a bit cloudy though, but I can live with that. We've run a load of laundry and the whites didn't come out dingy, so I was pleased with that. Also, it doesn't taste half bad, either. I prefer the taste of harder water (I suppose its the higher mineral content) over softer water anyhow. The hot water does smell a little irony out of the tap, and we haven't tried to cook with it yet. I'm suspecting the hot water is a little off (in part, at least) to the water heater nearing the end of its useful life and never having the anode rod changed. Our UV filter is a Trojan, but that is all that I remember. I'll get you some info on oursIt was recommended to us because we have an older dug well with a cement casing and cement cap. Its not exactly weather tight, and the well company that inspected it said that the casing was in good shape and they didn't see any cracks. However, an earthworm may end up in there and there is your coliform. The seller paid for it, but it wasn't terribly expensive, and the bulb usually lasts about a year. As lurker said above, the hard water is a little harder on it and will probably shorten its life some. In our case, I was worried about the well being re-contaminated after it was chlorinated, as its a shallow well operating mostly off ground water, so at the very least, I wanted to take the possibility of bacteria out of the equation. We're still going to have our water tested regularly, but the UV filter provides us a good amount of peace of mind....See MoreWater softner advice request with water test results
Comments (1)Drain. You have been given poor advise. Discharging to your septic, provided your septic tank is sized appropriately for your home, is not going to hurt your septic system one bit. Discharging to the surface out in the woods, however present a whole slew of problems: 1) Freezing, as you already noted, 2) Discharge line that is too long, 3) Illegal, 4) Damaging to plants in the area of the discharge if you use sodium chloride, 5) Did I mention Illegal? Softener. You live alone. Buy a softener for your situation. A 0.75 cubic ft softener will be just fine. Should you sell the house down the road, simply disclose that the softener is undersized for a family. You have a bit of iron and manganese, so you will need to ensure your softener regens at least every 7 days. 4 days would be better, but any softener you purchase is going to be oversized for your situation so I'm not terribly concerned about losing some softening capacity - A periodic iron treatment will suffice....See MoreHow long does it take a new water heater to heat up?
Comments (22)alisande, I'll have to admit, as the new information comes to light, it does raise some questions in my thinking. However, from what you describe so far, I suspect you are ok for the moment. Your original problem seems to have been air in the system as the others described. However, and only going by your description and no technical data, it did appear to take more time to bring the water to a temperature you were satisfied with. After you readjusted the thermostat it appeared to be more to your liking. My conclusion is, your cousin didn't run the water temperature as high as you do. Maybe he has kids he doesn't want to scald themselves, maybe it was to save energy, whatever his reasons. A 50 gallon tank is a pretty good sized tank for 1 person and I think if you kept the temp around 115-120 degrees, you wouldn't run out of hot water if everything is working fine. But again, there are good reasons to run the temp. higher. My advice at this point pretty much follows your line of thinking. If everything is to your satisfaction, there's nothing to fix. Let us know if anything new develops, the more information you can give up front, the better answers you will get. I think most of the folks here gave you enough info. that you know several areas to look or have someone to look at to do some trouble shooting before blowing the whistle. You'll eventually be the hot water expert in your area. As for Iris, there are 3 reasons for the tag. Making a living these days requires a job and as many hustles as one can handle. 1-I grow approx. 3 acres of rare types of Bearded Iris. Many get sold, many get processed for the perfume industry and many get processed as medicinal Oris Root. Motion photography and filming is another area of endeavor. Someone touched on another area in one of the forums so I figured they must have known me. Now of course there is no way for me to spend full time in all these areas and my profession also so others now actually work them. I just usually pi$$ them off from time to time when I come around and start playing with stuff since to me, these are hobbies....See MoreHow long does it take for lavender to get established?
Comments (5)Use a whole 10litre can. Pour it in slowly, so the water doesn't just run along the surface. Then wait for at least a week before watering again. How to tell when it needs watering: quite right, browning leaves is a sign that there is something amiss in the root zone. Take a lavender leaf and bend it slightly. It should be pliable, even slightly plasticky. The aromatic oils it contains will come off on your fingers because the stomata will be open. When they are thirsty, the leaves will look the same but be brittle, even crispy, with none of the pliancy of a well-irrigated plan and the oils will be less apparent, being locked in the plant as it tries to conserve water. This is my own, highly unscientific method of assessing the watering needs of those sticky, tricky, mediterraneans such as santolina, rosemary, thymes and lavenders....See MoreJosie23: Zone 5: WI
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