When I lived in Joliet, IL we had hard water there and it would turn your clothes slightly orange and would eventually tint your hair also. We got a water softener and never had any other problems after that.

We had the stinkwater at our apartment. I always thought it was the hot water heating something stuck in the drain.

Our new house, all the water smells kinda like bleach.

I talked to my plumber friend. He fixed this issue for us at the family cottage.

He removed the anorod from the hot water tank. On the top of the tank, there'* a plug. Remove that plug...attached to it will be a 30" long rod, 3/4" in diameter. It'* aluminum and should be solid. Cut the rod off the plug. Reinstall the plug. You'll be good to go.

The anorod is used for community well or city water applications, not for private wells. The rod adds minerals to the water to help prevent the tank from corrosion. On a private well, there are plenty of minerals, so that rod is adding more than necessary; hence, the stink.

i agree water softner with rock salt

we use the blue bag

Don't waste money on a softner. That'* like replacing a transmission when you really only needed new plug wires.

Try my trick, first.