We recently moved to a new house, and our well water has a lot of iron in it. You can see rust stains where the sprinkler hits the side of the house, and the toilets are perpetually brown because of the iron. I read that bleach makes it worse because of some reaction that I forgot long ago after I brain-dumped all that stuff into a chemistry test in college.
I got a product called Iron Out -- the tablet form that goes in the back of the toilet -- and it did work for a while, but it doesn't last long, and I'd rather not have to keep buying these things. It's fine for the one toilet in our house that doesn't see much use, but for the others, it's used up so quickly that it feels like a giant waste of money. Other than a whole-house water filter, which some of our neighbors have installed, do we have any other options? (And if we do need to go the filter route... which I assume is not cheap... any tips on that?)
We do filter our drinking/cooking water, but other than that, for showers and stuff, the mildly metallic smell doesn't really bother us.