watersoftenerrookie
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I moved into a home recently with well water. The home has a 30 year old Kinetico 60 and a 7 year old Nelsen AIO system with a Fleck control head (EDIT: AIO is first and then leads into softener). Neither one of these seems to be working properly.
EDIT: Water tests conducted by a lab prior to the home purchase showed 18 GPG hardness, about 2 ppm iron, no manganese, ecoli and coliform were 0, dissolved solids were about 360 ppm, 7.2 pH, and the presence of H2S gas.
There are 9 people in the home (including baby).
The softener: Kinetico dealer doesn't want to service the control head because of the age of the tanks. They claim the tanks could leak and they don't want to be blamed for equipment fatigue. I could potentially buy a used Kinetico control head and rebed the tanks. Or I could buy something new.
Vendor A suggests this:
AFWFilters WS-96k-91SXT Fleck 9100SXT Dual tank water softener
Vendor B suggests a Vesta 110,000 grain capacity water softener.
Vendor C suggests a Fleck 5600 (48,000 grain capacity)
The AIO: the Fleck control head might need to be cleaned but the issue seems to be the media needs to be replaced. There is some argument locally about what media to use. One vendor suggests katalox lite. The other vendor suggests using a blend including KDF.
Vendor A suggests katalox lite. They say KDF doesn't work in a blend.
Vendor B suggests a custom blend including KDF. They say Katalox lite will result in a black sediment in my water from the release of the sulfates.
Vendor C says the AIO needs to be much larger in capacity (currently the AIO is 48,000 grain capacity) and we can use whatever media we want.
Who is right, A B or C or are they all wrong?
EDIT: Water tests conducted by a lab prior to the home purchase showed 18 GPG hardness, about 2 ppm iron, no manganese, ecoli and coliform were 0, dissolved solids were about 360 ppm, 7.2 pH, and the presence of H2S gas.
There are 9 people in the home (including baby).
The softener: Kinetico dealer doesn't want to service the control head because of the age of the tanks. They claim the tanks could leak and they don't want to be blamed for equipment fatigue. I could potentially buy a used Kinetico control head and rebed the tanks. Or I could buy something new.
Vendor A suggests this:
AFWFilters WS-96k-91SXT Fleck 9100SXT Dual tank water softener
Vendor B suggests a Vesta 110,000 grain capacity water softener.
Vendor C suggests a Fleck 5600 (48,000 grain capacity)
The AIO: the Fleck control head might need to be cleaned but the issue seems to be the media needs to be replaced. There is some argument locally about what media to use. One vendor suggests katalox lite. The other vendor suggests using a blend including KDF.
Vendor A suggests katalox lite. They say KDF doesn't work in a blend.
Vendor B suggests a custom blend including KDF. They say Katalox lite will result in a black sediment in my water from the release of the sulfates.
Vendor C says the AIO needs to be much larger in capacity (currently the AIO is 48,000 grain capacity) and we can use whatever media we want.
Who is right, A B or C or are they all wrong?
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