How to improve the water quality in my old Mobile home?
It smells like sulfur and tastes foul as it sits in the pipes inside. If it's being used frequently it's fine. But the hot water isn't used much and it's horrible.
It smells like sulfur and tastes foul as it sits in the pipes inside. If it's being used frequently it's fine. But the hot water isn't used much and it's horrible.
If you have sulfur in your well water you can remove it by aeration. Drinking water with high sulfur isn’t generally considered a health risk, but it’s not fun that’s for sure. The easiest and free way to remove sulfur from water is simply to let it air out.
This works for drinking water at least, just pour a jug and let is sit out for a couple of hours; it should improve in taste as the gas evaporates. That of course isn’t something you can do much about for showering or washing dishes unfortunately, for that you would need a mechanical solution of some kind, being either an aeration system in your basement, or inside the well itself.
Removing sulfur from water has the added benefit of removing radon gas, though you likely don’t have a problem with that if you are mobile, but the solution is the same so check this page first –
How to remove radon gas and sulfur from well water
There may also be other issues with your water quality, has it been tested recently? Is it a shared well? Water quality can change over time, along with the Ecoli count, so having it tested regularly is a good idea. If your water is leaving stains in sinks and toilets and tubs you may have a lot of iron in the water, that’s pretty common to find alongside a high level of sulfur.
But a word of caution here – there is no shortage of hocus pocus water treatment products that make great claims but don’t work. There are some promising technologies on the horizon, but currently the only reliable solution we know of for water softeners are all salt-based.