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It depends on what you call a Conditioner.  That word in my opinion means a tank with some softening media, some carbon, some PH increaser and who knows what else.  They try to do several things with one unit.  Now you have roughly 1/4 the capacity you should have had.  A water softener does just that, softens water by removing calcium and magnesium.  Many salesmen say softeners do a great job of removing iron.  I disagree.

The first thing to do is get your water tested for the most common things such as hardness, iron, manganese and get the PH.  Sulphur is another thing you could have with well water along with the iron and manganese.  The things you might find in City water are hardness, chlorine, ammonia and fluoride.  Carbon can take care of the chlorine, but it takes a more expensive media to get the other three.

I have well water with very little iron, about 15 grains of hardness and some sulphur.  I remove the sulphur with an air pump and a galvanized tank.  The hardness is removed with a softener.  I wouldn't be without the softener, I'm spoiled.  I don't need the sulphur smell either.  The little bit of iron I have is removed by the carbon filter and oxidized with the air.

Give me the link to your site and I'll list it on my Forum.  Most of the guys there are Well Drillers, but enjoy hanging out on Plumber Forums too.

It's so Plumber friendly,  even Redwood posts there sometimes :-)

OK, now I get it.  I should probably go delete that post then.  Or make it into an ad of some kind.

Glad to hear your busy, you must be making some decent money working all those hours.  I can't remember the last time we have been busy.  It's pretty dead here.

In the top right of this Forum, mine says Unsubscribe.  But I didn't get notification of this last post.  The Stay subscribed to this topic is checked also.

I think we have lost Paul.

Redwood, I'm not getting notifications of posts.  I know I'm supposed to push a button somewhere, but not sure where.

So that's where your hiding it.  I started going down through them then saw the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  etc at the bottom.  I thought maybe you had a count.

They haven't really effected me in any way, but I do with they would just go away.

I probably haven't drilled more than 10 wells since I moved to Florida 30 years ago.  Until about a year ago, we would subcontract drilling out to other contractors then we would install the pumping equipment.  I have had a couple of very good drillers in the past, but in the last ten years, I have had nothing but problems and gave it up completely.  The good drillers mostly used Cable Tool Rigs which are rapidly going out of style.  The rigs used today are Rotaries.  Cable tool beat the casing into the ground and rotaries make a hole then just push the casing down.  After pushing the casing down, you are supposed to fill the annular space around the casing with cement, but I question how well that is done by some drillers.

Thanks Redwood, my own house.  That's cool. 

Hey, how many different How-To's do you have?  Is there a way to do a search for a topic?