Excuse the lack of brevity, but I want to lay it all out. When I lived with my girlfriend and her two kids, we would fill my softener with salt about every six weeks. When it was about five years old, it quit. We busted up the sale bridge a time or two but the salt level otherwise stopped going down and eventually I had a plumber out who said it was shot.
Fast forward a couple of years. (Yeah, I know....) I now live alone. I went out with a friend who's a professional handyman, bought a basic GE model and he installed it about four weeks ago. I put in one 40 lb. bag of salt. We entered the settings. The salt level has not dropped at all. I take one bath and one shower a day and aside from the occasional toilet flush or hand washing, that's the extent of my daily water use. I run a load of laundry once every week to 10 days and use the dishwater about twice a month. I put a broomstick in the tank and not surprisingly, there's no salt bridge. Salt on the stick was wet. I see some water at the bottom of the tank, in the back. There's no error message on the display. It's set to recharge every morning at nine. Initially, it said 33 days to empty but has changed twice and now says about the same.
I am at a l loss. Can anyone impart any wisdom? Is there ANY chance this thing is working OK? Might I have a bigger issue? Thanks.
Fast forward a couple of years. (Yeah, I know....) I now live alone. I went out with a friend who's a professional handyman, bought a basic GE model and he installed it about four weeks ago. I put in one 40 lb. bag of salt. We entered the settings. The salt level has not dropped at all. I take one bath and one shower a day and aside from the occasional toilet flush or hand washing, that's the extent of my daily water use. I run a load of laundry once every week to 10 days and use the dishwater about twice a month. I put a broomstick in the tank and not surprisingly, there's no salt bridge. Salt on the stick was wet. I see some water at the bottom of the tank, in the back. There's no error message on the display. It's set to recharge every morning at nine. Initially, it said 33 days to empty but has changed twice and now says about the same.
I am at a l loss. Can anyone impart any wisdom? Is there ANY chance this thing is working OK? Might I have a bigger issue? Thanks.