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Hi, Folks.
We have private well water.
My wife told me that the water was smelling like rotten eggs. I checked the cold water and it reeks. Recently I noted that our water was a little discoloured so yesterday I changed the inline filter that is after our softener. I checked the brine tank and noted that it had no salt left which basically means that the softener would not have been getting recharged properly. Oops. I went to Sears to buy some more salt and they didn't have the usual stuff I get (Morton's Solar Salt - blue bag) so I got some other stuff. It's Mortons in the green bag and contains Rust Raze - it's for people with iron in their water. We have a high iron content so I thought this salt may be better. I got the salt home and ran the water softerner recycyle. That lasted from 7:30 - 9pm. My wife noted that the water reeked last night at about midnight.
I know water smelling like rotten eggs is a popular problem - at least when you google it there is a lot of information about it. To me is seems a little coincidental that I should run my water softener recharge with new salt and now it stinks. I should mention that I also put in some iron out when I recharged the softener. I figured that it wouldn't hurt. I've used iron out many times before without any issues.
I just checked the water that comes from the well i.e. before the water has passed through the softener and there is no odour at all. It seems like the water is picking up the odour from the softener. I've only tested cold water so far so I know the issue is not to do with the heater.
I am going to run another recharge to see if that fixes anything.
Any ideas of what could cause this issue and what steps I need to rectify it? If necessary I can easily get the normal blue bag salt I get, change the salt in the brine barrel and recharge the softener again.
Cheers, Max
We have private well water.
My wife told me that the water was smelling like rotten eggs. I checked the cold water and it reeks. Recently I noted that our water was a little discoloured so yesterday I changed the inline filter that is after our softener. I checked the brine tank and noted that it had no salt left which basically means that the softener would not have been getting recharged properly. Oops. I went to Sears to buy some more salt and they didn't have the usual stuff I get (Morton's Solar Salt - blue bag) so I got some other stuff. It's Mortons in the green bag and contains Rust Raze - it's for people with iron in their water. We have a high iron content so I thought this salt may be better. I got the salt home and ran the water softerner recycyle. That lasted from 7:30 - 9pm. My wife noted that the water reeked last night at about midnight.
I know water smelling like rotten eggs is a popular problem - at least when you google it there is a lot of information about it. To me is seems a little coincidental that I should run my water softener recharge with new salt and now it stinks. I should mention that I also put in some iron out when I recharged the softener. I figured that it wouldn't hurt. I've used iron out many times before without any issues.
I just checked the water that comes from the well i.e. before the water has passed through the softener and there is no odour at all. It seems like the water is picking up the odour from the softener. I've only tested cold water so far so I know the issue is not to do with the heater.
I am going to run another recharge to see if that fixes anything.
Any ideas of what could cause this issue and what steps I need to rectify it? If necessary I can easily get the normal blue bag salt I get, change the salt in the brine barrel and recharge the softener again.
Cheers, Max
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