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Some f/u. The Kinetico guy came back out today, confirmed the resin leak, and took the softener apart. There was a broken top basket (IIRC) on the main resin tank (which they didn't see before?) and that resin tank was roughly half empty now. (!) He suggested several options: 1) replace the...

To my knowledge, the valve has not been rebuilt. But would that lead to a resin leak? Also I wasn't home when they were here (the wife was), so I don't know if they replaced the riser and/or distributor. As far as we know, they just put in new resin tanks containing new resin.

Thanks- do you think I should try to get them to repair these (they've kind of had two tries at this), or am I just throwing good money after bad in a 25 year old softener? Should I ask Kinetico directly? PS- the ~week or so I had the softener bypassed, I presume there was no regen, and when I...

We have a 25 year old Kinetico dual tank softener which worked well up until last winter (yay Kinetico). Last winter the water got an odor and a color, and I brought a sample into the local dealer that sold us the softener. Options were to rebed or replace. Since "replace" is $thousands, I had...

So, I replaced the cartridge on the bath faucet (which, after 20 years, was pretty black) and got the cold water working properly again. (And yes, Moen is sending me a new one for free, which I'll use on the other sink in the master bath, which after 20 years, is pretty sticky). In the kitchen...

Thanks for your input. I will try the things you suggested.

We have a nice Kinetico softener which is as old as the house (about 20 years) and we recently had it rebedded on the advice of the dealer because the water was starting to come out with a slight brown discoloration. They rebedded it, and the water is better now. But there are a couple of...