Clean Water Made Easy Podcast

In this Episode 9 of Clean Water Made Easy Podcast, our host and resource person, Gerry Bulfin, a water treatment contractor and WQA Certified Master Water Specialist explains the differences between traditional salt-based water softeners and no-salt water conditioners or softeners.  You will hear and learn about: What is a water softener and how are … Continue reading No-Salt Softeners Versus Salt ...

How to Eliminate Odors and Freshen Well Water with Hydrogen Peroxide In today’s episode, I am talking about hydrogen peroxide for well water and how great it works to eliminate odors in well water.  This is the same hydrogen peroxide found at the local pharmacy or supermarket but slightly higher. Four years or so ago, … Continue reading Hydrogen Peroxide for Well Water Treatment: How to Eliminate Od...

Episode 15. How to Troubleshoot Low Water Pressure On Well Water Systems Read or Listen to See How to Troubleshoot Low Water Pressure On Well Water. Today’s episode is about troubleshooting low water pressure on well water for homes and small businesses. Do you have plenty of water but experience low water pressure?  This is … Continue reading How to Troubleshoot Low Water Pressure On Well Water Sys...

In this latest installment of the Clean Water Made Easy Podcast, I discuss how to eliminate odors in well water.  I also go over how to identify odors in well water and then walk listeners through the basic steps of eliminating these same odors. As with other issues we’ve discussed, causes may be surprising, but … Continue reading How To Eliminate Odors in Your Well Water

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Why use ozone water treatment for your well water? #1: Ozone is a powerful disinfectant: Ozone water treatment can rapidly disinfect your well water and kill bacteria and viruses, but unlike chlorine does not leave a chemical chlorine residual. #2: When used with filtration, it removes iron, manganese, and sulfur odor: When combined with filtration, … Continue reading Ozone Water Treatment For Well ...

Hello. Welcome to the Clean Water Made Easy Podcast Question & Answer. This is Q&A Episode #11. Each week, in our main podcast, I try to explore various well water treatment systems and specific applications or problems. I also like to do these quick Q&A episodes to answer some questions that we get. We receive … Continue reading Podcast Q&A 11: Why Use a Static Mixer for Chlorination Systems?

In this episode, I talk about when to use Soda Ash for Acid Well Water. Topics discussed include: What is low pH and why you might want to correct your low pH to a neutral pH? What is soda ash for well water? Why use soda ash instead of a calcite neutralizer? What are the … Continue reading Acid Well Water: When to Use Soda Ash Systems to Treat Acidic Well Water

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Hello. Welcome to the Clean Water Made Easy Q & A. My name is Gerry Bulfin. I’m a WQA-Certified Master Water Specialist and Water Treatment Contractor. Every week on our main podcast we delve deeper into the various well water treatment systems and problems. I also do these quick Q & A episodes because we … Continue reading Podcast Q&A 10: Should I Use Phosphate To Treat Corrosive Water?

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Hello. Welcome to the Clean Water Made Easy Podcast Question and Answer Episode 9. My name is Gerry Bulfin. I’m a WQA-Certified Master Water Specialist and Water Treatment Contractor here in Santa Cruz, California. We get a lot of phone calls, emails, and chats through our website. For this, I’m  picking the more interesting ones … Continue reading Podcast Q&A 9: Can I Use Pool Chlorine Tablets to T...

Did you know that rainwater is slightly acidic and, in some cases, can be very acidic?  This can cause acidic groundwater and might cause your well water to be corrosive to plumbing, fixtures, and appliances. Acidic well water is commonly caused by acid rainfall due to atmospheric carbon dioxide and other airborne pollutants and, in … Continue reading Acid Well Water: The Simple Way to Neutralize Ac...

No-Salt Water Softeners for Well Water? Hello and welcome again to the Clean Water Made Easy Podcast Q&A, this is Q&A Episode 8. In this episode, I am going to answer a question about No-Salt Water Softeners for well water.  Actually, they should be referred to as no-salt water conditioners, not softeners since they do … Continue reading Podcast Q&A 8: “I’m looking for a no-salt water softener for o...

Welcome to Episode 11 of Clean Water Made Easy Podcast In today's episode, our host Gerry Bulfin, a water treatment contractor and WQA Certified Master Water Specialist, discusses iron filter media, particularly manganese dioxide filter media, for removing iron and manganese from well water. Manganese dioxide is a natural filter media that effectively removes iron, … Continue reading Iron & Manganes...

Welcome to Episode 10 of Clean Water Made Easy Podcast. Our host and resource person, Gerry Bulfin, a water treatment contractor and WQA Certified Master Water Specialist discusses ultraviolet sterilizers for well water and how to use them for disinfecting and sanitizing well water. Ultraviolet sterilizers use UV light to kill bacteria in water and are … Continue reading Ultraviolet Sterilizers for ...

Hello, welcome to the Clean Water Made Easy Podcast Question & answer episode 5.  My name is Gerry Bulfin, and I’m WQA certified master water specialist & long time water treatment contractor. Each week on our main podcast we go deep into various well water treatment systems and water quality issues and problems, but I … Continue reading Podcast Q&A 5: I want to install an iron filter in my basement...

Hello, welcome to the Clean Water Made Easy Podcast Q&A. My name is Gerry Bulfin. I hope you’re doing well. I’m a WQA-certified Master Water Specialist and Water Treatment Contractor here in Santa Cruz, CA. Every week on our main podcast, we discuss various well water treatment systems and common water problems—like how to eliminate … Continue reading Podcast Q&A 4: “I have well water with a sulfur ...

This is Q and A episode 3 Hi, my name is Gerry Bulfin. I’m a WQA-certified master Water Specialist and water contractor here in Santa Cruz, California, Northern California. I go deeper into various well water treatment systems and problems each week on our main podcast, but I’m trying to do more of these quick … Continue reading Podcast Q & A 3: “We recently had a water softener installed, now we’r...

Hey! Welcome to the Clean Water Made Easy podcast Q & A episode 2. My name is Gerry Bulfin and I am a WQA-Certified Master Water Specialist and Water Treatment Contractor here in Santa Cruz, California and every week we get lots of questions and try to pick up the best one and answer one. … Continue reading Podcast Q & A 2: “Can I use a softener to remove iron? I know I have iron problem because we ...

In this episode, I discuss how to set up a well water chlorination system and much more. I’m Gerry Bulfin, a water treatment contractor and WQA-certified Master Water Specialist. Today, I discuss home well water chlorination systems and how, why, and when you should use one. I also review questions you should ask before using … Continue reading How to Set Up A Well Water Chlorination System

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On today’s episode of Clean Water, I walk you through how to identify well water problems by doing a physical inspection of your pipes, fixtures, and appliances.  There are some well water problems that you can identify yourself without any special tools or equipment. Though it is a fairly easy process, there are some aspects … Continue reading How To Identify Well Water Problems By a Physical Inspe...