On 2/12/2019 3:39 PM, Tekkie® wrote:
Frank posted for all of us...



On 2/8/2019 8:36 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 2/7/19 7:10 PM, Frank wrote:

[snip]

Our old well when installed had recovery rate of 30 gpm.* Water was
great with no treatment.* When my parents were alive and their city
water got over chlorinated because of a spill they would get their
drinking water from me.

I used to live in the country, and we had well water. It was really good
for drinking, but bad for washing (takes too long to get the soap out).


Hard water, lots of calcium, does that.

I have to test my water and will get a kit and do it myself. The state
can do it for $4 but it will take a couple weeks to get full results and
over a week to get bacteria. My wife will not drink or even wash with
it until we get the bacteria test.

Old well water was border line calcium and plumber wanted to put in
treatment which exchanges calcium for sodium. I declined but a neighbor
was treating his and discovered he was not allowed to put the sodium
flush effluent into the septic and had to put in a separate drain field.

Here it is the opposite. All dirty water goes into the septic. I believe we
live in PA.


What I have learned in the last couple of years with the neighborhood
turning over is that state and county rules have changed so what was OK
to do in the past is now not up to code.

You can live with that but when you go to sell the house the buyer finds
out that some things are not up to code and insists that they are if you
want him to buy the house.

I went through this with my new deck not too long ago. Existing deck
had footers resting on a patio beneath it. There was no problem with
footers but the rest of the deck was a mess. New deck code requires
that footers go below frost line which is 3 feet and contractor sawed
through concrete patio for footers to be up to code. When I looked at
the codes throughout our small state of Delaware with three counties I
found codes differed in all three counties. My old deck would have been
code in the other counties.

Also mentioned 2 neighbors with septics that when they sold their houses
to get them up to code they had to put in grey water treatment tanks
which remove most of the heavy metals and bacteria before going to the
leach fields. Apparently the perk specs have changed where higher perk
rates are restricted even more. Cost these guys $25,000 each. I think
I am safe from this one as my septic beds are evaporation beds.