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You can do it yourself for the cost of a gallon of bleach. Seriously, we had to have ours done right after our house was built. He poured a gallon of Clorox in the well, ran all the taps in the house until they smelled of bleach and told us to let it sit 48 hours, then run the hose for several hours to flush the bleach out.Originally posted by happyappygirl
Anyone have any idea how much a shock chlorination or acid treatment would cost? ~approximation is fine~
Originally posted by nomoney
isn't that just what well water smells like
Ain't that the truth. I never would've paid for it, it was a brand-new well and they were obligated to get it passed the health dept. inspection. Every house in the neighborhood had to be done, I think.Originally posted by jazz lady
We did that every couple of years at our old house. It's exactly what the well companies do anyway, so why pay them to do something you can do yourself?
Originally posted by kwillia
That's easy to explain, when you turn on the hot water faucet, the well pump has to pull the hot water from the deeper part of the artisan well that is closer to the core of the earth where the water is always hot. There is more sulfur and such at the core (hence the extreme heat) and this results in the hot water from the artisan well smelling different than the cold water from the same artisan well.
This might be the case if she had a geothermal system but I highly doubt that in this region. The problem here is the build up of mineral deposits within the hot water heater.
Originally posted by Ken King
In an artesian well the water is trapped under great pressure between layers of rock. When the well is drilled, the pressure forces the water up through the hole. There is no pumping of "hot" water from the same well that provides "cold" water.
