Poll: Which water would you test?

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Which water would you get analyzed?

  • Raw water

  • Post Water Softener

  • Post Reverse Osmosis

  • Stop being so cheap and get another analysis!


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hasbrew

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Just moved to a new house and the water has a ton of dissolved solids (1020 ppm as measured with a TDS meter). We have an ion exchange softener (Na) and I just installed an RO system (post the softener) however I can only get the water down to 50-60 ppm.

Now to the poll, I purchased one full water analysis from Ward labs, and I'm leaning towards sending in the raw water in so I can see what I'm working with in terms of supplementing the RO water.

My thought is also that I'd be able to predict the RO profile from the raw water, assuming all the Ca and Mg are exchanged for Na and using this RO passage table from the Bru'n site (https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/water-knowledge) section 4.2.1.

If you only had one test to do, which would you pick?
 

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