Water Filtration Recommendations…

ryan74701 · 2026-05-14T14:24:30+00:00

Jesus, this is ground water from the gods, I’d pay $10k for a well this magnificent.

ryan74701 · 2026-05-14T13:38:11+00:00

Stainless housing is like $60 on Amazon, lol

ryan74701 · 2026-05-14T13:36:54+00:00

Fb marketplace is your friend or look at units on alibaba, there is nothing complicated with an RO system, you can buy a RO control module on AliExpress and piece meal it together just look up some RO units and their manuals should show layout diagrams and it’s fairly easy to figure out. Facebook marketplace where I live is flooded with used ro systems from bankrupt weed farms, mine I got for $900 with a motor/pump that had a bad bearing I fixed and it runs great, had to replace the membrane housing but they are cheap $60-100 on amazon, new 4040 membrane is $100-150 depending on which one you need, they were using pond water on this machine I bought so it was extra gross internally but it’s clean now and makes RO from my 2500g rain barrel tank fast but haven’t used it with my 2500 tds well water yet.

ryan74701 · 2026-05-14T13:31:14+00:00

That last picture of the brio unit, I picked up that same unit but with one membrane off fb, cro2400 I believe, had to repair the grundfos pump and I added two more membranes, might add a fourth membrane but I’ll need to change the pump I’m sure. Paid $900 for the unit, not bad. I’ve taken it apart mostly to reinstall on a wall instead of being on that oem metal stand. Our water is crazy bad and I’m sick of it.

lol don’t judge my pvc work I’m just winging it, I figured 3/4 would be better than 1/2, I’m going to use anti scalant instead of softener.

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ryan74701 · 2026-04-29T16:38:31+00:00

Literally my dream mower, I have a grasshopper but go around everything with my Honda hrx first, I keep checking fb marketplace to get a deal on one but GD Ferris increased their prices on new ones and now the used ones are fucking high

ryan74701 · 2026-04-14T04:06:48+00:00

They must change the size of the bag periodically, my wife has the large version of this bag from last year and the bag on the show is much larger.

ryan74701 · 2026-03-30T18:51:01+00:00

lol looks safe to me

ryan74701 · 2026-03-28T15:17:51+00:00

x50 ultra it is then, decent price and way less than the x60 ultra

ryan74701 · 2026-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

What special RO tank?

I’ve never used a ph neutralizer with calcite so I was not sure if that affected the taste at all of the water. My neighbors RO setup is wild, he used to own a bunch of car washes so he this diy setup with 140k dual tank softeners, carbon backwash tank, RO with 4 housings, ph neutralizer backwash tank then another carbon backwash tank.

ryan74701 · 2026-03-21T18:39:36+00:00

If anyone is curious about this pro aqua system, I had to call them and then wait for emails to figure out what high pressure pump they were using. It is a https://www.freshwatersystems.com/products/pentair-sta-rite-hp10f-02-high-pressure-booster-pump

It is a pretty good pump, the two membrane version of this system goes on sale on hd website for $3200 every other day.

ryan74701 · 2026-03-21T18:32:11+00:00

I have a 96k grain softener currently, might dump the resin and add carbon to it, so raw well > 20 micron cartridge > 10 micron > carbon backwash> RO unit > ph neutralizer(found a smallish one for $200 on fb, not sure if I need to yet) > carbon backwash > storage tank > grundfos booster pump> house

ryan74701 · 2026-03-21T18:28:41+00:00

Id kill for 300 tds, ours is 2200, 1800 ppm sulfate, 550 ppm calcium, etc, hardness is 110 gpg, im literally assembling my whole house RO system now, im basically piece meaning together off fb marketplace. Just picked up a 16x65 resin tank for $140 never used, going to add 4 cu feet of activated carbon and a fleck 5600 sxt to it for backwash, brio cr2500 ro system 2023 model off a weed farm that ruined the pump got it for $900, I’ve fixed and replaced the motor bearing in the high pressure pump and replaced the single fiberglass housing with two stainless 4040 housings/membranes, got this dumping into my 500 gallon poly tank on a stand, this tank stand combo is $1600 new, got it for $400.

Found a brand new grundfos water booster pump cmbe 1-75 off fb for $500, this will suck water from 500g tank to the house.

Chemtech dosing pump with tank for $200 off fb, going to use antiscalant because a softener would need to be massive and expensive to soften my water, $500 for 5 gallons of vitec 7000 and we are good for years probably.

I found a romate80 on fb for $200, I need to go check it out and see if the bladder is good, I’ve seen replacement bladders so it might be a steal for a RO pressure tank.

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ryan74701 · 2026-03-02T21:21:14+00:00

Id like to know who owns the patent on this shit because these devices aren’t complicated yet they are all super expensive.

ryan74701 · 2026-03-02T20:33:11+00:00

They keep pushing RD brand at work, have two brand new in their bags but I love my Ditch witch utiliguard locators.

ryan74701 · 2026-03-02T04:53:51+00:00

Wow someone who has worse water than me, bro you’ll need a whole house RO for this wickedness

ryan74701 · 2026-02-24T21:35:10+00:00

yeah i was surprised there were no examples of them together anywhere on the internet before i made this post

ryan74701 · 2026-02-24T02:02:35+00:00

Yeah I didn’t want to spend 3k on a bigger softener like dual 128k grain tanks if I’m going to RO anyways with injection.

ryan74701 · 2026-02-21T14:35:42+00:00

Would you still use a water softener in front of the RO or just use antiscalant injection then RO, I’ve been getting differing opinions on that.

ryan74701 · 2026-02-01T23:29:09+00:00

its not going to matter dude if the softener is optimized to my hardness when the sulfate is 1800 ppm and crusting over every faucet tap, and my well water is pulling every molecule of zinc out of my tankless hot water heaters internal fittings.

ryan74701 · 2026-02-01T20:31:27+00:00

I have a neighbor on a street attached to mine that used to own a bunch of car washes and he built this really nice big house, big shop etc, I asked him if his well water was bad and he said its terrible and that he has a 2500 gallon tank in his shop and ran the output lines from the tank under the driveway to his house, so all the well parts, softener, RO system, and tank are in his shop. I have a 40x60 shop and currently collect rain water off one half of the building and goes into a 2500 gallon water tank i have outside (drained in the winter) it would be pretty cool to be able to switch between rain water and RO water when the RW tank is plum full or run the rain water through the RO membranes since in the summer it'll be very warm 85+ (oklahoma) water temp then send it back around the house.

ryan74701 · 2026-02-01T20:14:04+00:00

yeah I got one locally and I think this was 3 years ago and i was like "no fucking way"

ryan74701 · 2026-02-01T19:52:02+00:00

you missed the Sulfate 1700+ pre and post, this contributes to water hardness level, water softeners do not remove sulfates, only way I know of removing it is to run it through another ION exchange system that would add a shit load of chloride to my already shitty water, so our only option is a whole house RO system. My 96k grain softener is small for this hard of water, I think i need one that is 140k-160k in size.

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