We are realizing our well water really needs a better filtration system. The only concern we really have is the iron. Our water is staining the toilets, the Keurig tank, etc.

Also when filling my hot tub and adding chlorine it's absolutely horrible and takes forever to filter out. I've tried filters attached to the fill hose that do nothing.

We only have a sediment filter on now. Looking for good options that are most cost effective and don't require a lot of maintenance.

Otherwise the only thing I usually do is fill the hot tub from the pool. That's a good option for summer but sometimes it needs a change in winter.

I used a potassium permangenate (green sand) filter when I lived in NC. We had iron in the water..pretty much everything east of Raleigh. I wound up adding another filter in line with the original because doing laundry on one day saturated the media…the extra filter fixed that.

My dad bought it and we set it up ourselves as he was a plumber and got it all wholesale.

We had a lot of iron in our well water in the Texas hill country. The untreated water looked like diluted carrot juice. We had an “iron filter” in the system which I believe was essentially a canister of potassium permanganate, as was posted earlier. It did a good job.

I'm using a filter system that has a tank with activated charcoal and calcium carbonate, basically ground up marble. It is working pretty well so far. Iron was just as you described . Water is orange out of the ground.

It back washes every third night.

I got it from this company;
https://metrowaterfilter.com/

How often are you sanitizing your well? When my water first starts showing any sign of iron I shock it.

Kinetico water softener

Be careful with chlorinating water with high iron. You can get iron chloride crystals forming that can clog filters.

My friend Mark works for a construction company that does a lot of work at government buildings and they were installing a water purification system for the Coast Guard station near Annapolis MD and they had that problem. They figured it out and had to remove the iron before injecting the chlorine as it was clogging up the sediment filters that were downstream. Interesting problem w a cool solution.

At a previous home that had a lot of iron in the well I used a canister filter ahead of the softener. It used the filters that look more or less like a paint roller. I used the course ones, the material wound on the core was about the size of yarn. A filter lasted me 6-8 weeks IIRC.

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Originally posted by Jimbo Jones:
Be careful with chlorinating water with high iron. You can get iron chloride crystals forming that can clog filters.

My friend Mark works for a construction company that does a lot of work at government buildings and they were installing a water purification system for the Coast Guard station near Annapolis MD and they had that problem. They figured it out and had to remove the iron before injecting the chlorine as it was clogging up the sediment filters that were downstream. Interesting problem w a cool solution.

I'm only chlorinating the hot tub. When I get a filtration system it will be to lower the iron before I chlorinate.

I'm looking at this system from Home Depot...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/IS...em-WGB32BM/206880059