Well water whole house water filters

We drilled a new well last year. We had serious problems with sediment and smell in our water.
The guys that installed the pump never flushed the well. They just hooked it right to the house and left. We fought the mud in the water lines for months.
Now I feel like we’ve got everything clear.
Our plumber from work who happens to be a friend and neighbor installed two 4.5x10” filter housings.
I run a sediment filter first then a charcoal/carbon filter.
The water is Chrystal clear and has no smell.
The filters say they last two months.
I can go 1.5 months no problem but then the water starts to smell and show a hint of sediment.
These filters cost $15.00 for the sediment and $ 25.00 for the carbon filter. I buy them at Home Depot.
I’ve been looking at bulk filters online. I believe I could save a lot of dollars by going this route. Does anyone have any experience with any of these?
I don’t want to buy a bunch and have them not work well.
I’m trying to buy just a couple to try and then buy bulk.
I can’t get most places to do this.

Where I was working we bought filters by the case - somewhere around 20 cases a month minimum - as used them on many different applications - several different brands and Micron ratings - the filter themselve were a standard size across many filter housings -
 You could check industrial supply businesses or even Amazon , 
Another thing one could use is swimming pool sand filter as primary unit - then just backflush it to clear sediment - last a lifetime - then change water supply to toilets and outside faucets to supply other than carbon filter draw. 
  For the Deionized water supply we used - the city water was run theough carbon filter bed - and once a week we steamed it - then backwashed - the heat removed the trapped organics and chlorene from carbon granuals . 
  For water supply to reverse osmosis units we used a sand filter and a cloth bag filter before water supply to the RO membranes - this cut cleaning down to 1/2 of what it was before raw city water was used .

Edited by Coke-in-MN - 29 Oct 2022 at 9:45am

DaveKamp wrote: So my well experiences some sediment challenges every so often.  I beat back this gremlin with a little crude tech...  connected to the discharge port on the bottom of my pressure tank, is a 1" garden irrigation valve... which is connected to a plastic pipe that leads to a drain pipe exiting the house to a dry-well down the hill. The irrigation valve is triggered by 24vdc, and I operate it using TWO timers... one is a common 24-hour mechanical timer (like the one you're using to operate a lamp in your livingroom while you're vacationing in Acapulco for two weeks) and the other is an adjustable timer good for a range of 0-30 seconds. The 24 hour mechanical timer is set to turn on for 15 minutes every day.  This powers a 24v transformer, which powers the 0-30 second timer. The 0-30 is set to about 4 seconds... and it cycles for that 4 seconds every time the incoming 24v comes on.  When it cycles, it feeds 24vdc OUT to the valve. So the drain valve opens for about 4 seconds every day. When it does that, it does it so fast, that any loose sediment in the tank will eventually shake loose and go out the drain, but anything that's accumulated in low suspension, is going out regardless. My whole house filter, and my water softener, have run much better, much cleaner, etc., ever since.

Thank you Dave. I’m going to try something like this.
I installed a sink in my shop early last summer.
At the time I hooked up the drains and got all that plumbed in myself. I was going to have my plumber buddy do the supply line.
I needed to wash some things for a project I was working one one day so I ran a washing machine supply line from that bottom of the pressure tank to the sink faucet.
I used it quite a lot during the hot months.
That is when I got the longest use of my filters.
I will do something like what you’ve done.
I appreciate the idea.

Have you checked the well foot valve?

That is what many of the filter housing we used were 20" so each held 2 -10" filters as our supply were 10" by the case as throughout areas many 10" were the most common .