Hi there, I moved into a house in the country about 6 months ago. There was an old iron filter and softener on the existing well equipment. The water wasn't that great - there were rust stains in the mobile home's fixtures, and it didn't taste all that great. I called in a well water guy, and he sold me a new iron filter and softner, installed for $3500. Seemed to help alot, but there was still a slight odor to the water, and it had a yellowish color. The filter guy didn't smell the odor, and seemed to not really believe me. I lived with it. I just had a new house built, and moved into it a couple weeks ago. The toilets are already stained (yellow), the shower head has already clogged up, and the water still has a bit of a smell to it. I called in another filtration guy, from a different company this time. He tested the water again, and said that the new iron filter / softner wasn't working properly. He wants to get rid of the filters I have now, and sell me a whole house RO system. I have no problems paying the $9000 for the RO system, but I want to make sure it is going to do the trick this time, unlike the $3500 I spent a couple months ago. Do you think this setup will provide me with the good quality water I am looking for? The new system will chlorinate the water coming in from the well, then sent it through a multimedia filter. Then to the RO unit, and to a 150 gallon holding tank where it will then be repressurized for distribution to the house. My water testing results (raw well water): iron: 25 ppm Hardness 50 grains TDS: 3870 ppm Thanks for your input, and sorry about the long post!!

the system i have is a two tank system, one tank holds media,the tank is 10-54 vessel with a electronic head/timer, the other tank has a air compressor hooked to it i do have iron in the water [well] the problem is that when it regenerates the media is disappearing out of the tank my water guy tells me that it could possible be the vavle is sticking when it backwashes, he looked inside the tank to see if the tube inside was cracked or split , he could not get the top off to take out the tube he said it looked ok ,it backedwashed on weds know most of the media is gone .the sticker on the tank says kinetico quality water system i have not found the model # any where on the sticker or tank only a serial # inside the head ,does the hole head/timer need to be replaced or just the valve or is there another problem with it .