A family member purchased a house with well water and septic. The water has a strong sulfur odor from both the hot and cold water.
Details of the situation:
The well is about 250ft from my well which would lead me to believe that both wells are from the same ground water source and my well does not have the odor.
The house in question was vacant for 1.5 years but the water lines were not drained. The water softener was unplugged as well.
The well water is plumbed from the bladder tank to the softener, to a house filter and then throughout the house ( The filter should be before the softener).
I have not checked the softness of the water to determine if the softener is working.
The following is what I have done thus far:
I pulled the whole house filter and added bleach into the housing, ran the water into all fixtures in the house and let everything sit for 24 hours flushed and now the odor is gone from the cold water. I did install a charcoal filter into whole house filter.
The filter location will be corrected this weekend.
I want to flush the water heater since I still have the sulfur odor in the hot water. I was planning on draining the water heater(80 gallon elec.), opening the union and adding about a 1/4 gallon of bleach, refill the heater, let sit for 24 hours, and drain.
My problem is I don't like dumping 160 gallons of water into the septic system with 80 gallons containing bleach.
Am I going about this correctly?
Would the floor drains in the basement drain into the septic?
Is there another way to drain the WH outside w/o going into the septic?
Thanks!
Details of the situation:
The well is about 250ft from my well which would lead me to believe that both wells are from the same ground water source and my well does not have the odor.
The house in question was vacant for 1.5 years but the water lines were not drained. The water softener was unplugged as well.
The well water is plumbed from the bladder tank to the softener, to a house filter and then throughout the house ( The filter should be before the softener).
I have not checked the softness of the water to determine if the softener is working.
The following is what I have done thus far:
I pulled the whole house filter and added bleach into the housing, ran the water into all fixtures in the house and let everything sit for 24 hours flushed and now the odor is gone from the cold water. I did install a charcoal filter into whole house filter.
The filter location will be corrected this weekend.
I want to flush the water heater since I still have the sulfur odor in the hot water. I was planning on draining the water heater(80 gallon elec.), opening the union and adding about a 1/4 gallon of bleach, refill the heater, let sit for 24 hours, and drain.
My problem is I don't like dumping 160 gallons of water into the septic system with 80 gallons containing bleach.
Am I going about this correctly?
Would the floor drains in the basement drain into the septic?
Is there another way to drain the WH outside w/o going into the septic?
Thanks!