Adding Iron Remover to Water Softener

 I am wondering the best method to get rid of the iron in the resin bed.
 It is not a problem yet, but as a preventative maintenance, how do
most people do this or have found the best way?

Some people say it is better to mix some iron out with water and pour
it in the brine tank once a month.

Some people say you pour 1/4cup with every 40lbs you put in so it is
layered and goes in automatically.

Some people claim just buy the "rust remover" salt and that will solve
any problems.

What is your opinion?

 

Ans:  it usually depends on what other chemicals
(besides iron) are in the water or in your own filter.
Choices (1) scientific analysis for all likely chemicals
(expensive), (2) trial and error with what you can
conveniently buy.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

 
If you are fixing a problem do the mix and pour it in.

Otherwise mixing iron out with regular salt or using the rust remover salt is
about the same. I don't know which costs more. I'd guess the "rust remover"
salt, it's just salt with iron out already mixed in, but I never checked.

Maybe you want to have your water tested. If there is not much iron in it you
might not need to do anything at all.

Tom

 
FarmerEd3 wrote:

Mix and pour is the best because it puts the Iron Out etc. to work
right now plus, the 'extra' water raises the salt dose for that
regeneration. If you sprinkle it in the salt, it weakens before being
used. If you buy it in salt, you get a small dose, the same salt dose
and pay more for the salt with it than buying a 5lb or 18oz container
of it (or so I beleive).

Gary
Quality Water Associates

 
FarmerEd3 wrote:

I used the rust remover salt and it worked fine for me (for the 10
years I was on well water).  I don't know exactly how much iron we had
in the water but it was enough to stain sinks, toilets, etc. and ruin
white clothes in the wash, before we installed the water softener.
This was in northern Illinois.