LLigetfa
DIYer, not in the trades
Or do two back-to-back manual regens and only add Iron Out on the first regen.Sounds like extending the brine draw cycle a lot after an IO treatment, which would extend the slow rinse, would be useful to clear the IO better. The slow rinse uses laminar flow, where backwashing, and even fast rinse, mixes things up.
The brine draw is 60 minutes and it takes less than 10 minutes to draw all of the brine. ISTR that the fast rinse/pack that follows brine draw is around 6 minutes
BTW, before I ran Iron out through the system yesterday, the opaque pex drain line was fouled black presumably from manganese. After two back-to-back regens both of which I added Iron Out to, the drain line is now much cleaner. I assume that if the drain line was fouled, then so too was the resin.
When I hired my water guy to add a half cube of FilterAG to the iron filter, I also asked him to check out the softener to see if it was performing well. I now think he did not do anything at all to the softener. I think he dismissed my complaint of poor softening by attributing iron bleed-through as affecting the total softening capacity. I think he should have at least cleaned and verified the programming and fill float setting was correct. He came highly recommended but I now have doubts about his competence. I now have to decide whether to call him out on this or bite by tongue.
I do enjoy DIY for the most part but some things I would like to just leave to the experts. Looks like this is not one of those.