mggray87
Member
Alright guys. cut me a tiny bit of slack with softeners. its a new world to me. I grew up entire life with no softener didnt even know they existed or what they were. I drank tap water for life. Bay Area SF has pretty darn good water. I moved out to brentwood farm area. and every house is built with a loop for water softeners. i bought my first home out here in novemeber 2015. I purchased a fleck 5600SXT 48,000 capacity. It had the copper loop in garage but past owner never put one in. so thats the first thing i did to help appliances and pipes.
So just moving in in november and installed the fleck myself. I didnt even know what hardness was and what my water actually read. i called the city and they come out for free. I never saw him he said he came out and tested and it was at 9 hardness. i know i needed that to set up my system. the water has water reports ill post to show what i saw. its a blend of the grown water from wells and city plant surface water. If i know how to attach it i will. So i used 9 on my initial hardness. I didnt have a test kit myself. i set it at i think 12 just guessing and didnt feel anything my co worker moved nearby to a house that already had one. it was set to 15. i changed mine and thats where it is at now.
my home:
2485sq feet 2 story
3 full baths
Currently live with my girlfriend and my dog so only 2 of us live here.
my initial setup with directions from the place i ordered it online
recently been reading on it last 48 hours
My 5600SXT
48,000 grain capacity. 1.5c ft of hi capacity 8% crosslink resin
Black sticker .5gpm at 1.5lbs
DF-GAL
VT-tf 16
CT-fd
NT-1
C-48
H-15
RS-sf
SF-15
DO-14
RT-2:00am
BW-10
BD-60
RR-12
BF-15
FM-t.07
2 days ago i finally got a TDS digital meter and it was 250ish both hose and kitchen. (when i moved in i think i remmeber it was like 600's) so im confused.
SO.... i ordered a hach model hb test kit. i got it today. I tested TDS again and this morning it was 125. I tested hardness and it was 4 drops it turned blue so Hardness 4 coming from the outside hose where water comes in now. I tested the kitchen and the same thing Hardess 4 (4 drops) TDS is 135
he said it was 9. now its 4 im so confused. but what im really confused on. even if its 4 before softener its still 4. so that means my softener isnt doing a dang thing correct? so basically id love for someone that knows how to calculate everything and can help me dial this dam thing id really appreciate it. Im getting a RO 6 stage with alkaline tomorrow to install. and im ordering a 3 stage big blue 20x4.5 filters to put before softener later this month. but back to the softener.
lets see if i can put my water report on here.http://www.brentwoodca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32854
My water is a "blend" so it says so it has ranges for the plant and well. The only thing i can think of is we were in a drought for so dam long water was bad. last year we got good rain and this winter were getting hammered with rain. not sure if that plays a roll in plant water especially well water.
So just moving in in november and installed the fleck myself. I didnt even know what hardness was and what my water actually read. i called the city and they come out for free. I never saw him he said he came out and tested and it was at 9 hardness. i know i needed that to set up my system. the water has water reports ill post to show what i saw. its a blend of the grown water from wells and city plant surface water. If i know how to attach it i will. So i used 9 on my initial hardness. I didnt have a test kit myself. i set it at i think 12 just guessing and didnt feel anything my co worker moved nearby to a house that already had one. it was set to 15. i changed mine and thats where it is at now.
my home:
2485sq feet 2 story
3 full baths
Currently live with my girlfriend and my dog so only 2 of us live here.
my initial setup with directions from the place i ordered it online
recently been reading on it last 48 hours
My 5600SXT
48,000 grain capacity. 1.5c ft of hi capacity 8% crosslink resin
Black sticker .5gpm at 1.5lbs
DF-GAL
VT-tf 16
CT-fd
NT-1
C-48
H-15
RS-sf
SF-15
DO-14
RT-2:00am
BW-10
BD-60
RR-12
BF-15
FM-t.07
2 days ago i finally got a TDS digital meter and it was 250ish both hose and kitchen. (when i moved in i think i remmeber it was like 600's) so im confused.
SO.... i ordered a hach model hb test kit. i got it today. I tested TDS again and this morning it was 125. I tested hardness and it was 4 drops it turned blue so Hardness 4 coming from the outside hose where water comes in now. I tested the kitchen and the same thing Hardess 4 (4 drops) TDS is 135
he said it was 9. now its 4 im so confused. but what im really confused on. even if its 4 before softener its still 4. so that means my softener isnt doing a dang thing correct? so basically id love for someone that knows how to calculate everything and can help me dial this dam thing id really appreciate it. Im getting a RO 6 stage with alkaline tomorrow to install. and im ordering a 3 stage big blue 20x4.5 filters to put before softener later this month. but back to the softener.
lets see if i can put my water report on here.http://www.brentwoodca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32854
My water is a "blend" so it says so it has ranges for the plant and well. The only thing i can think of is we were in a drought for so dam long water was bad. last year we got good rain and this winter were getting hammered with rain. not sure if that plays a roll in plant water especially well water.
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