sleepgsr
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Hello All,
After looking through tihs forum i could not find a similar problem so I'm posting to see is anyone can point me in the right direction.
We've recently move to the country and have a well. the house came with a softener and one bb filter.
I have since changed to a 3 big blue filter as well as uv light setup all pre softener.
At one point the water level in the salt tank was way to high and I replaced the venturi assembly and that fixed it (the gaskets were disintegrating)
The problem is that our water is not getting totally soft. before the softener is is about 36 gpg, and after it goes down to about 8-10 gpg.
Iron level is at 2 and ph is around 7
It is a NorthStar softener.
I've just replaced the resin thinking that the iron on the past 10 year may have fouled it and it. It was stained dark brown and perhaps seemed to be somewhat disintegrating although we were not getting any resin through our taps.
After changing the resin it stayed in the 8-10 gpg range.
I then suspected that the bypass valve was leaking and mixing hard and soft water but it is fine - all seals good etc.
The salt is slowly being used up but I'm still confused because the new resin should give me soft water (0-1 gpg?) right away without recharging - correct?
Could it be the something in the valve assembly?
Any help would be appreciated.
After looking through tihs forum i could not find a similar problem so I'm posting to see is anyone can point me in the right direction.
We've recently move to the country and have a well. the house came with a softener and one bb filter.
I have since changed to a 3 big blue filter as well as uv light setup all pre softener.
At one point the water level in the salt tank was way to high and I replaced the venturi assembly and that fixed it (the gaskets were disintegrating)
The problem is that our water is not getting totally soft. before the softener is is about 36 gpg, and after it goes down to about 8-10 gpg.
Iron level is at 2 and ph is around 7
It is a NorthStar softener.
I've just replaced the resin thinking that the iron on the past 10 year may have fouled it and it. It was stained dark brown and perhaps seemed to be somewhat disintegrating although we were not getting any resin through our taps.
After changing the resin it stayed in the 8-10 gpg range.
I then suspected that the bypass valve was leaking and mixing hard and soft water but it is fine - all seals good etc.
The salt is slowly being used up but I'm still confused because the new resin should give me soft water (0-1 gpg?) right away without recharging - correct?
Could it be the something in the valve assembly?
Any help would be appreciated.
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