croixboy
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Hopefully someone here can give me some direction.
I have Salty, Hard Water after regeneration. Not a little salt... A lot. The spigots also sputter a little like there is air in the lines after regeneration.
My second well is 5 years old. The first well lasted 10 years and clogged with iron. The softener has always performed well until recently when the water became hard, and now salty after each regeneration. I called the company who installed the second well. They "cleaned the screen" and replaced the valves, and tightened the brine line at the tank. He said mechanically the unit works. He manually regenerated and said I should be good to go in about 2 hrs. Afterwards, The water was still salty at the faucets. I called the service tech and he said to manually regenerate a couple times. The water was still salty at the faucet.
I was out of town on business last week, so wasn't home to work on it after the service call. Today I cleaned out the brine tank. It had 15 years of hard mush salt at the bottom. I cleaned out the tank, poured warm water down the float assembly and removed all the water. I then put 4 gallons of water in the tank, and regenerated the system. All seemed to work properly. I put 2 new bags of crystal salt in and waited a few hours to create some brine, then manually regenerated. I have salt at the faucet still.
The unit is a 15 yr old 48,000 grain softener. 54" high x 10" tank. Autotrol 440i control at the top.
Is there anything I can do or test to find the problem? Any ideas?
I have Salty, Hard Water after regeneration. Not a little salt... A lot. The spigots also sputter a little like there is air in the lines after regeneration.
My second well is 5 years old. The first well lasted 10 years and clogged with iron. The softener has always performed well until recently when the water became hard, and now salty after each regeneration. I called the company who installed the second well. They "cleaned the screen" and replaced the valves, and tightened the brine line at the tank. He said mechanically the unit works. He manually regenerated and said I should be good to go in about 2 hrs. Afterwards, The water was still salty at the faucets. I called the service tech and he said to manually regenerate a couple times. The water was still salty at the faucet.
I was out of town on business last week, so wasn't home to work on it after the service call. Today I cleaned out the brine tank. It had 15 years of hard mush salt at the bottom. I cleaned out the tank, poured warm water down the float assembly and removed all the water. I then put 4 gallons of water in the tank, and regenerated the system. All seemed to work properly. I put 2 new bags of crystal salt in and waited a few hours to create some brine, then manually regenerated. I have salt at the faucet still.
The unit is a 15 yr old 48,000 grain softener. 54" high x 10" tank. Autotrol 440i control at the top.
Is there anything I can do or test to find the problem? Any ideas?