Chances are, your municipality is likely using Monochloramine which cant be dechlorinated like it used to be by merely sitting it out for a day or so or by boiling it. There will still be ammonia present so all efforts to remove would virtually be for nothing. You would need to use a filtration system to get it all out. TBH, I have been using tap water forever and have had zero issues with using it and I run all hydroponics. Maybe if your ppm is outrageously high right from tap, then you may have an issue but other than that....
Will boiling bring down my ppm? My tap water is 443 which is way to high for an auto.
No real way to answer that definitively without knowing what you are trying to "boil out of it". You would need a breakdown of the water quality data sheet from your city to know what it is you are trying to boil out of it. If your water is high in salts...then boiling it wont help, but probably make it worse as the only thing to boil away would be the water -in turn leaving the salts in the water that hasnt been boiled away into steam & actually doing the exact opposite by increasing the ppm. Hope this makes sense?
Reverse osmosis system it is.
If you gotta have good water....that sure beats lugging jugs haha
Yeah my ph is 9 something and ppm is high as well in all it just not good water.
oh shit yea that is pretty fucking high lol. mine is around the 6's after i add my nutes
What Red said. Use your tap water.
Ppm way to high and didn’t come down with boiling it. Along with ph being in the 9 Better to just lug jugs for a couple weeks till ro system gets here.
I love my ability to read a water report, no guessing, and a little maff.
What is your starting PPM? And boiling would only increase it as the water evaporates and leaves the solids behind.
Reading a water report is nice, our water changes here all the time, it is between 179 and 249 PPM, so pretty big change.
Starting ppm is 443
That’s pretty hard. Just asking because I haul all water unless it rains. It’s a pain a lot of times. But then it’s a 50 mile trip to get it. 100 miles driving for water.
