Private water supply

Ffermer Bach

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Livestock Farmer
that sounds a good idea to me, or you can buy an acidity regulator, looks like an oxygen cylinder filled with limestone chippings and a filter after, then you just disconnect it and put more chippings in every few months, used to do that when we had a spring supply (bore hole now and luckily that is quite hard). I used to wait till the sink went green from the tap, then pop more granules in the cylinder. I did find that the acid water used to corrode the copper pipes. I was told by a plumbing lecturer too, that houses built in the 70's had thin copper pipes (Rhodesia claiming UDI meant that copper exports stopped, so copper prices rose ,so pipes were made thinner!)
 
My well is hideous at about 6.2.
Runs through a neutralising medium of calcium carbonate (juraperle) takes it up to 7.8.
Tastes much nicer and I can’t help get the feeling cows prefer it, but then when we always have acidosis in the back of our mind 100l of acidic water wouldn’t help matters!
 

Hilly

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My well is hideous at about 6.2.
Runs through a neutralising medium of calcium carbonate (juraperle) takes it up to 7.8.
Tastes much nicer and I can’t help get the feeling cows prefer it, but then when we always have acidosis in the back of our mind 100l of acidic water wouldn’t help matters!
My cows are on a separate supply , I’ve not tested that , one at a time 😂 need this sorted tho as we have three properties and it’s also throwing up high Nickle content but that might be due to acidic water so need to sort ph first.
 

Hilly

Member
My well is hideous at about 6.2.
Runs through a neutralising medium of calcium carbonate (juraperle) takes it up to 7.8.
Tastes much nicer and I can’t help get the feeling cows prefer it, but then when we always have acidosis in the back of our mind 100l of acidic water wouldn’t help matters!
Mine is similar result 6.3 ! Quite acidic eh .
 

Derrick Hughes

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Location
Ceredigion
Turns out mine is acidic , which figures with the area , how do I correct ph in water supply ? Drop a lump of lime stone in storage tank or we’ll head , or is that mad idea [emoji23]
Put a spoon of lime in your coffee , if your short if trace elements I can post you 2lb of slag

Did you never have a 7600 with a rusted block . Steam cleaner coils last as litte as 12 months here
 

Hilly

Member
Put a spoon of lime in your coffee , if your short if trace elements I can post you 2lb of slag

Did you never have a 7600 with a rusted block . Steam cleaner coils last as litte as 12 months here
It’s not just me though , it’s the public ones a holiday home and ones a village hall . I don’t use water in engines I use proper coolant.
 

Doc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Since Local authorities took over from EA water abstraction licences we have had them around with the clipboard. Ours is a spring fed underground tank piped to a 5000L tank in a store room. pH at 5.3, no surprise as that is normal from peaty soils over clay and perfectly safe, which the 1000+ years of human habitation in the area attests.
To appease LA, I too put 25kg Jurapearle and 10Kg MgO in a mesh bag which sits over the outlet to pump. A low flow type system. pH raised to 6.3 now at the tap. LA happy as the (arbitrary) threshold is pH 6. You can get an aquarium pH testing kit for £10, which will be as accurate as, any to monitor.
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
that sounds a good idea to me, or you can buy an acidity regulator, looks like an oxygen cylinder filled with limestone chippings and a filter after, then you just disconnect it and put more chippings in every few months, used to do that when we had a spring supply (bore hole now and luckily that is quite hard). I used to wait till the sink went green from the tap, then pop more granules in the cylinder. I did find that the acid water used to corrode the copper pipes. I was told by a plumbing lecturer too, that houses built in the 70's had thin copper pipes (Rhodesia claiming UDI meant that copper exports stopped, so copper prices rose ,so pipes were made thinner!)
It is the chinese made pipe which is the issue. They have a technique where the pipe is slightly thicker than tin foil, but half as strong😂😂😂
 

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