Maintaining residential water systems involves taking certain steps at least once a year to keep your well clean. For more thorough maintenance, schedule a well inspection with the experts at Luisier Drilling, based in Oconto Falls, WI. Providing quality well planning service to clients throughout the region since 1936, they’ll explain what you can take to clean your well.

3 Steps For Cleaning Residential Water Systems

1. Use Chlorine Or Bleach

To begin cleaning your well, loosen the well cap so you can add either chlorine or bleach to the system. If yours is an average household well, add one gallon of non-scented bleach; if you’re using granular chlorine instead, add an eighth of a cup. If your well is deeper, providing water for a farm or larger property, use two gallons of bleach or a quarter of a cup of chlorine.

2. Circulate The Water

Run the water back into the well and flush the sides of the casing with a garden hose. Leave it running for 20 minutes to help circulate the water. Then, fill up some five-gallon pails with the chlorinated water, and quickly pour it back into your well, turning off the hose first. Doing so will raise the well’s water level, forcing water and chlorine out into the aquifer.

Take the screens off of your faucets and run them, waiting until you smell chlorine. Flush the toilets as well. Once you smell chlorine, turn your faucets off and try not to use any water for four to eight hours.

3. Purging The Well

After the wait period, run water from as many faucets as possible until you can’t smell any more chlorine. If you run the water from a hose, make sure it goes into a ditch or driveway where bleach water won’t do any harm. It may take up to five hours before you can no longer smell chlorine.

Repeating this process at least once a year is essential to keeping residential water systems clean.

To make sure your residential water systems are completely clean, schedule a well inspection with Luisier Drilling in Oconto Falls, WI. Visit them online for more information, or call (920) 848-5239.