Hi all - great forum. I learned a lot in the few days since I found it. Wish I read up on this stuff years ago. Anyway, we're having salty taste in the AM. After reading this post:
https://terrylove.com/forums/showthread.php?31335-Salt-Taste-in-Water-After-Regen
I have some tips on possible clogs in the brine tank area to go work on. In meantime, I have a couple questions that maybe you can help me on. First here's some system details:
4 people in our northern vermont house, 2.5 bathrooms. It has a well, Culligan Estate 2 water softener + a 3 cuft carbon filter that includes a bleach tank for sanitation/backwash cycles. Local service guy who built that filter said it was sized more appropriate for a B&B than a single family. Anyway, we haven't changed media on that since we bought the house 6 yrs ago. The water softener is set for: 10# salt per recharge, twice every 6 days. Softener also hasn't been serviced in 6 yrs. Water pressure seems pretty weak, even when we bypass the filter and the softener.
To test the water, I set both units to bypass for a couple days, and got this using my pool chemistry kit:
Total Alkalinity = 270 ppm as CaCO3, Ca Hardness = 90 ppm as CaCO3, pH = 8.0
I read somewhere else that these results are not normal, the two values should be closer. Should I look into sending water to a test lab for more info? Also, are there any more system specs that I should look at to make sure my softerner is running at the right pace? I'm willing to bring in Culligan to service it, but I haven't had great luck in the past with this company unless the problems were very obvious.
https://terrylove.com/forums/showthread.php?31335-Salt-Taste-in-Water-After-Regen
I have some tips on possible clogs in the brine tank area to go work on. In meantime, I have a couple questions that maybe you can help me on. First here's some system details:
4 people in our northern vermont house, 2.5 bathrooms. It has a well, Culligan Estate 2 water softener + a 3 cuft carbon filter that includes a bleach tank for sanitation/backwash cycles. Local service guy who built that filter said it was sized more appropriate for a B&B than a single family. Anyway, we haven't changed media on that since we bought the house 6 yrs ago. The water softener is set for: 10# salt per recharge, twice every 6 days. Softener also hasn't been serviced in 6 yrs. Water pressure seems pretty weak, even when we bypass the filter and the softener.
To test the water, I set both units to bypass for a couple days, and got this using my pool chemistry kit:
Total Alkalinity = 270 ppm as CaCO3, Ca Hardness = 90 ppm as CaCO3, pH = 8.0
I read somewhere else that these results are not normal, the two values should be closer. Should I look into sending water to a test lab for more info? Also, are there any more system specs that I should look at to make sure my softerner is running at the right pace? I'm willing to bring in Culligan to service it, but I haven't had great luck in the past with this company unless the problems were very obvious.