What To Do When Your Well Water Smells Like Rotten Eggs. You can choose to filter singular faucets, such as your. If your water smells like rotten eggs, the odor is usually caused by the levels of sulphur that can be found in your home’s water supply.
Chlorinate well water to eliminate both sulfur and bacteria. One solution is to have a plumber perform a shock chlorination treatment. Hydroviv’s “toilet tank test” for rotten egg smell the first thing we do when a customer comes to us with a smelly water problem, is have them take the lid off their toilet’s tank and take a few pictures that can be sent to us (i’m not kidding!).
You may not feel clean after a hot shower or long bath when you are soaking in nasty smelling water.
Use ozone gas in a closed tank or atmospheric tank. If your cold water smells like rotten egg, it has hydrogen sulfide. Removing the rod can remove the smell, but shorten the life of your water heater tank. Adding chlorine to the water will kill the srb and thereby reduce the rotten egg odor in your water heater.