Has anybody tried Crystal Clean for rusty water?

[kitchy]

My cabin water has always been pretty bad. But lately the rust stains have been ridiculous. I'm thinking about trying this Crystal Clean stuff and am looking for any insight on this or any other suggestions.

I know we have a fairly new water softener but I would guess I don't have any rust filtering installed. There is a filter but my guess is that it is a standard sediment filter.

My house has a system called an Iron Curtain which works great but is a bit spendy for our cabin. Plus its a major plumbing install.

Cabin is about 11 years old.

[kitchy]

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[Jim Almquist]

There really is no easy ,quick or cheap fix for rust in the water. We had a 700 WaterBoss that helped but a water softener is not really intended to remove rust but it helped a lot but there was still a need for CLR and Iron Out. I know that I did not help you much and maybe some one who has tried Crystal Clean will chime in weather or not it is effective.

[kitchy]

Thanks for the response Jim. I think it's a combination of things that are causing my problem. We had a water freeze in our cabin last year so the water softener is brand new. I expect when it was installed there was no science behind how it was setup. I'm going to be heading up there to do this the right way by taking water samples and verifying correct softener settings. I did also buy a bottle of the Crystal Clean and am going to give it a shot. I see that some Culligans, Kineticos, etc carry it so there's got to be a little bit of a reputation there.

P.S. the water at my home is rusty also. It had an Iron Curtain filtration system already installed which I lease. I gotta say, those things are expensive but they do work. Too expensive to justify for our cabin.

[hydro]

My family ran a resort for 30 years where the water was also very rusty. We used two cleaning products on a regular basis (and tried many more). The two that worked the best were "Barkeepers Friend" a powdered cleaner like "Comet" that would cut the rust in the sinks, and "Santeen" that we used in the toilet bowls and tanks. Both worked excellent.