Water Quality

09/20/18 09:45 AM
Recently, we have noticed that our 7 stage filtration has begun producing vastly decreased water quality production. So far we have tried flushing the system for 15-20 minutes with DI water followed by soaking for 24 hours. That had little effect. Next, we replaced the sediment filter and both charcoal filters. Flushed out after installing for 15 minutes and again soaking 24 hours. The water quality has improved, however not to the quality level we expect. We expect water quality before going through our DI to be somewhere between 15-30 TDI but ours was running closer to 75 TDI. So. We’re now concluding we will have to change out our reverse osmosis membranes. They are only a couple years old and we are attributing this premature replacement to not having changed the charcoal filters early enough. The gallon rating for our charcoal filtration is about 5,000. We will now attach a water meter to our system to ensure that when we approach the 5,000 gallon mark. We replace the charcoal filters. We’ll keep you posted.
Kevin