About speedball1 Expertise About me: My Plumbing Expertise: I retired from plumbing after a lifetime in the trade. all phases from service and upkeep to construction, both residential and commercial. I am qualified to do anything in plumbing from fixing a leaky faucet to drafting a set of plans for a commercial shopping center and supervising the construction. My last five years were spent as a trouble shooter for a large plumbing company. I took on all my companys complaints. I have been a expert on the plumbing page at Askme.com. In a field of 200 experts my rating was number one. You may also find me at Answerway.com and AskMe Help Desk.com. This is fun for me and if I can help anybody out that`s iceing on the cake. Degrees & Certifications: As for degrees, I don`t have any. Just a Journeymans ticket, but hey! How about fifty years experience?
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Question Can you tell me how to go about building my own aerator system...I had one put on by a "professional" about a year ago...it worked at first, but after another company installed a filtration system on the inside to the holding tank, the sulfer smell is back with a vengence. the aerator was attached to the outside of the well stack and is buried underground...can you give me any advice...I loved your bio. Thanks Speedball!!!
Answer Hi Crystal, I live in a area of Florida with a high sulfur content in certain sections. I have seen home made systems that work very well. Here's one, Aeration of home well water helps the "good" bacteria decrease organic matter and also reduce other impurities in water. One place you can aerate is the holding tank right after the well pump motor. You can get a fish tank aerator, and tubing for around $40 . (E.g., at Petsmart, Hagen Maxima with durable diaphragm .) (Your tank will be larger than what the pump is rated for, but remember we are not trying to keep fish alive, and the pump only uses around 6 watts. ) Install the pump indoors, (rated for indoor use), above tank level, and feed the tube/s out of your home into the tank, feed tube/s through top of tank and wrap the air tubes around something that will takes the tubes to the bottom of the tank. (Porous rock diffusers may clog due to minerals in well water.) Verify there are no kinks anywhere in tubes for free air flow. Do not puncture tank below water level
Another system that we can can build ourselves is to install a large horse trough under a covered shed or enclosed space. From the well, pipe the water into the though through a series of lawn sprinklers mounted inline on a PVC pipe about a foot over the trough. Install a floatball shutoff in the tank so it doesn't over flow. You will need another pump plus a bladder tank to pump the aerated water into the house system. Out of the two my vote goes to #2. More questions? I'm as close as a click. Hope this helps and thank you for rating my reply. Tom
