What causes orange staining in showers?
Q:
What causes orange staining in showers?
A:
This is generally caused by Iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide) or more
commonly referred to by the locals as rust and is more common on well
water than city water. While a water softener will remove a small amount
of iron from the water, it should not be the one item to bear the load
of removing it from the water. Water softeners are designed to remove
hardness but are poor at removing iron. Every grain of hardness equals
one grain but, every part per million of iron equals five grains per
gallon depleted from your water softeners capacity. In the long run it
will put a heavy burden on your water softener and will cause it to need
to regenerate more frequent causing, more salt consumption.
The
key to saving money in removing iron is to operate a unit specifically
designed to remove the iron and take the burden off of the water
softener. Placing our Aquatek Pro aerator before your water softener
will remove up to ten parts per million of iron from the water, thus
eliminating iron fouling of the water softener. The Aquatek Pro Aerator
is a single unit with it's own controller, requires no chemicals to
operate.
Typical removal of Iron and hydrogen sulfide is through
aeration of the water before it enters the structure. This was generally
done by pumping the water from the well then, spraying the water
through jet nozzles to force it to mix with the air before landing into a
pool of water in the tank. The water in the tank was then pumped out by
another pump and re-pressurized and in some cases injected with
chlorine. the water would then go through a carbon filter and then
through a water softener. The expense of this this type of system is
high due to all the equipment required for removing the Iron and/or
hydrogen sulfide. Some of these systems would require additional holding
tanks depending on the consumption of water required for that structure
and could start to push the $8000.00 mark in equipment cost.
We
have a better solution! A solution that eliminates the aerator tank,
additional water pumps and chemical pumps, the extra plumbing involved
and especially the toxic chlorine which is a never ending expense in
this type of aeration system. You just don't need all that stuff! Our
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The Aquatek
Aerator filter, aerates the water as it enters the unit and effectively
releases up to 10 ppm of the Iron and gas from the water. The water
free of hydrogen sulfide gas and iron then passes through our special
mix of catalytic filter media that continues to filter the water to
remove any impurities which may have been present in the water due to
the hydrogen sulfide content, Iron and other chemicals as well. This is
one system that eliminates all the other items needed by aerating the
water the old way and costs less than $2000,00 to have installed on a
typical 3 bedroom house. Simply eliminating the cost of chlorine will
pay for the unit purchase and installation over time.