On today’s episode of Clean Water, I walk you through how to identify well water problems by doing a physical inspection of your pipes, fixtures, and appliances. There are some well water problems that you can identify yourself without any special tools or equipment.
Though it is a fairly easy process, there are some aspects of water inspection that people may not automatically know about. Hopefully, the information in today’s episode, Clean Water Made Easy Podcast Episode 4, helps you maintain clean and healthy well water.
Free Well Water Physical Inspection How To Guide
Well Water Problems Topics Discussed:
* Secrets of your toilet flush tanks
* Visual inspection of your water and pipes
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Signs that you have problems with your well water system
* Checking your water heater
* Remembering to check your dishwasher
Transcript of Well Water Problems Episode:
You’re listening to Clean Water Made Easy Podcast episode number 4.
Hello thanks again for tuning in to the Clean Water Made Easy Podcast. Hope your day is going good. My name is Gerry Bulfin. I’m a water treatment contractor and WQA-certified Master Water Specialist here in Northern California. And in this podcast series I give actionable tips and information all about well water treatment and well water problems.
In today’s podcast we’ll cover how to do a physical inspection of your home well water system. This is a great way to identify and find out clues about what’s going on with your well water quality. There’s some very simple things you can do. It is very enlightening. We’ll talk about how to do a physical inspection of your pipes and fixtures, how to do a toilet tank check, very interesting, and all about your water heater, how to inspect your water heater, and what to look for in your dishwasher.
I made a resource guide to go along with this. I’m trying to make a resource guide for every podcast, I think it might be more interesting so when people come and listen to it they have something they can physically look at and also gives you a guide that you can keep. This one I’m offering for free, all you have to do is text the word “watercheck” all one word, watercheck, to 44222. And also go to the clean water store website,
cleanwaterstore.com/podcast and this is episode 4 so just look for episode 4 and you’ll find the resource guide in there, all about how to do a physical inspection of your system.
Physical Inspection: How-To
To do a physical inspection of your pipe and fixtures could be as simple as getting a 5 gallon bucket and opening up a hose bib outside and physically seeing what the water looks like. If you have well water and you’re trying to figure out what’s going on, that’s the first place I’d start. Get a white, clean 5 gallon bucket and fill it with water. It should be crystal clear.
If it’s clear but if you know you have iron staining and it turns to rust later that tells you something right there. It's coming out of the ground clear, but it's turning to rust as it gets exposed to the air. You can also check odors this way–fill up a nice clean bucket and see if there’s, should have no odor to it obviously.
If you have to inspect your pipes because you’re getting pipe corrosion, then you can take apart a section of the pipe and we’ve certainly done that and doing assays of trying to determine where corrosion is happening in plumbing. You have to cut out a section of the pipe and of course you have to reinstall section so that could be tricky involved plumbing, but you can also just do a physical inspection of the outside of the pipes.
Your pipes shouldn’t have green corrosion byproducts on the outside,
