Tman,

I would first try out the Mortons rust pellen salt to see if that works.
Also, you might be seeing some residual from the toilet tanks themselves.

Iron comes in a few forms. Dissolved (clear water iron), solid (the type the
softner does not remove) and colloidial (iron that has attached it self or
encapsulates to another particle ie tannins, magnesium ad infinitum)

If it is brownish red in color and wipes easily from the bowl with a finger
than your sediment filter needs to be readjusted downward to say a 5 or even
1 micron.

What size is your filter? Is it a standard 9 inch or a big blue (or white)
filter?

Let me know how it goes?

rik

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"Tman" wrote in message
igy.com...
Hi, I have well water with relatively soft water, but a lot of clear water
iron (Hardness is 13mg/L, Iron is 1.4 mg/L pre-treatment).

So without too much analysis, I went ahead and bought and installed a
Kenmore water softener. This one is spec'ed to be able to remove up to 8
ppm of clear water iron, so I figured it will only help. I am still
noting
some "rust" discoloration on the inside of toilet bowls after about two
weeks. Nothing major, but I have a couple questions on the choice of water
softener...

- Is this a good / OK treatment choice for the water quality that I have
pre-treatment?
- Do I need to do anything special to the softener as far as maintenance
when operated under this condition? I.e. clean more frequently, use
special
salt (Morton rust remover salt??).
- It appears to me that the softener decides when to regenerate the resin
bed by measuring total water usage between cycles (it has a water flow
meter), and calculating the condition of the resin bed by using a
user-entered hardness level. I programmed into the softener that my
hardness is 5 grains (quite a bit in excess of the real hardness). Should
I
over-estimate the hardness level that I program into the softener to
reflect
the fact that it will be the clear water iron that consumes the resin
cycle?
In other words, I am wondering if it is regenerating frequently enough.
It
goes about three weeks between cycles.

Thanks for any advice offered,
Tman.

PS high turbidity also, but have a good sediment filter installed
pre-water-softener, which seems to fix that up.