Hello! I recently bought a house that appears to have a Culligan mark 89! I was told that the previous owner never used it. They lived there for nearly 10 years, and I see that there is a bag of salt in the room next to the softener, so either they lied, or that is one really old bag of salt. The softener is set to be bypassed.
So:
1. I know very little about water softeners except from what I've learned by googling the past 2 days. I did download/print the manual for this model.
2. I think my water has a lot of iron, when I run a bath for my kids, the water has a slight orange tinge. I looked in the back of the toilet tank and it is very coated in orange. I will be sending a water sample to budgetwater on Monday (let me know if they are okay to trust). How well do WS take out Iron? The water tastes/smells fine to me.
3. How should I approach this thing to see if it is operable? I read the manual about how to clean the brine tank, so I figure I'd start with that, but honestly I don't know how to tell if the thing works at all, or WHAT it should ever look/sound like if I set it to be used.
4. Can someone tell me what settings I should set it to? I played with the dials (go me...), and I have no clue what they SHOULD be. I did a search of the forum for this model, and read several of the posts. I see a lot of math, but I don't really understand how the numbers work out. The manual talked about how often you want to flush it, the salt setting, and the float. But it didn't say what recommended settings are.
Thanks in advance for all the help! I hope I don't have to buy a whole new system...
P.S. Does soft water taste salty? I guess I'll find out if I get this working!
So:
1. I know very little about water softeners except from what I've learned by googling the past 2 days. I did download/print the manual for this model.
2. I think my water has a lot of iron, when I run a bath for my kids, the water has a slight orange tinge. I looked in the back of the toilet tank and it is very coated in orange. I will be sending a water sample to budgetwater on Monday (let me know if they are okay to trust). How well do WS take out Iron? The water tastes/smells fine to me.
3. How should I approach this thing to see if it is operable? I read the manual about how to clean the brine tank, so I figure I'd start with that, but honestly I don't know how to tell if the thing works at all, or WHAT it should ever look/sound like if I set it to be used.
4. Can someone tell me what settings I should set it to? I played with the dials (go me...), and I have no clue what they SHOULD be. I did a search of the forum for this model, and read several of the posts. I see a lot of math, but I don't really understand how the numbers work out. The manual talked about how often you want to flush it, the salt setting, and the float. But it didn't say what recommended settings are.
Thanks in advance for all the help! I hope I don't have to buy a whole new system...
P.S. Does soft water taste salty? I guess I'll find out if I get this working!