Help Reading Water Reports

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molehill

Re: Help Reading Water Reports

Post by molehill » Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:13 pm

A lot of the bigger nurseries have an aquarium section.... That's where I got mine. I asked the same questions you have earlier this year and it really isn't that difficult at all and you will be able to do 25 plus tests with one kit.

barry44

Re: Help Reading Water Reports

Post by barry44 » Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:50 pm

Got one this after

barry44

Re: Help Reading Water Reports

Post by barry44 » Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:39 am

Afternoon, sorry.

barry44

Re: Help Reading Water Reports

Post by barry44 » Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:03 pm

Hi all,

ive just received revised information from Scottish Water regarding the supply to the house, the hardness has went up slightly for the report last year.

To this end, i want to see if i am entering the information correctly into Bru n water.

The information received was as follows:

The water in your area is soft. Please find below, readings supplied by our Public Health Team:

Expressed as Calcium Mg/l 6.1
Expressed as Calcium Carbonate Mg/ 15.3
Expressed as Calcium Millimoles 0.2
Expressed as French 1.5
Expressed as English 1.1
Expressed as German 0.9

I also received a fact sheet that allowed me to add the various other minerals to the sheet.

My Water Report Input worksheet now looks like this:

Calcium - 6.1
Magnesium - 3.7 (used multiplier as per sheet)
Sodium - 3.9 (from report)
Potassium - 0 (none reported)
Iron - 0 (minimal amount reported)
Bicarbonate - 18.5 (used multiplier as per sheet)
Carbonate - 9.2 (used multiplier as per sheet)
Sulphate - 8.1 (from report)
Chloride - 5.9 (from report)
Nitrate - 1 (from report)
Nitrite - 0 (from report)
Fluoride - 0 (from report)

This gives me a Cation/Anion difference of 0.18.

Have i entered the information correctly?

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Re: Help Reading Water Reports

Post by WallyBrew » Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:43 pm

barry44 wrote:Hi all,

ive just received revised information from Scottish Water regarding the supply to the house, the hardness has went up slightly for the report last year.

To this end, i want to see if i am entering the information correctly into Bru n water.

The information received was as follows:

The water in your area is soft. Please find below, readings supplied by our Public Health Team:

Expressed as Calcium Mg/l 6.1
Expressed as Calcium Carbonate Mg/ 15.3
Expressed as Calcium Millimoles 0.2
Expressed as French 1.5
Expressed as English 1.1
Expressed as German 0.9

I also received a fact sheet that allowed me to add the various other minerals to the sheet.

My Water Report Input worksheet now looks like this:

Calcium - 6.1
Magnesium - 3.7 (used multiplier as per sheet)
Sodium - 3.9 (from report)
Potassium - 0 (none reported)
Iron - 0 (minimal amount reported)
Bicarbonate - 18.5 (used multiplier as per sheet)
Carbonate - 9.2 (used multiplier as per sheet)
Sulphate - 8.1 (from report)
Chloride - 5.9 (from report)
Nitrate - 1 (from report)
Nitrite - 0 (from report)
Fluoride - 0 (from report)

This gives me a Cation/Anion difference of 0.18.

Have i entered the information correctly?
No

The only results you have that you can input are those from the "report".
If you enter Ca as 6.1 enter Mg as 0 as you have only been given a hardness figure as the calcium equivalent and not a real calcium figure.
Your alkalinity as bicarbonate, carbonate or calcium carbonate is unknown. At most it is 15.3 but is probably less

Having said this, as your water contains very little, do not worry about whether it is correct or not

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