Recent content by sasha7771

It is a Culligan water softener with plastic plugs. Looking at the plugs, I couldn't visibly see anything broken on them, they just wouldn't stay in the pipe. It's now disconnected with new piping run - they didn't solder anything. They used something called Shark Bites at the joints. No...

I haven't used the water softener in years so I'm thinking my best bet will be to have someone come out and remove the softener and re-route the piping. Thank you for your replies.

Last night I heard the sound of water spraying in my basement. There was water gushing out of a pipe up near an old water softener. I shut the water supply off and discovered that the water was not coming from a broken pipe, but a pipe where a plastic plug had shot out. The plug I believe is...