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We are going to be away on vacation for 16 days. I am wondering what I should do with my water softener and UV system? We live in a cold climate so there is risk of pipes freezing should we lose heat. I plan to shut off the well pump, turn off the water heater, and set the heat to 60 degrees...

This is really good to know. This would be much faster to implement and I will add it to my toolbox for next time.

All done! Took a long time, but much of it is just waiting around as mentioned. I started way too late last night.....not until 8pm after getting out of work and then having to take care of a few errands. Didn't finish the chlorination part till almost 11pm. Again, not all of it working, but...

Thanks guys! I'm planning to start this process tonight. I purchased the bleach & vinegar yesterday. Amazon should be delivering my Ph tester and Chlorine strips today. Fingers crossed this works and holds off the SRB for a good long while. I will report back on how it goes. At what point...

Hello all, Back with a question regarding rotten egg smell from private well water. Scenario: New construction home. Well drilled in August 2020. 5" well drilled to 156 feet. Static water at 90 feet. Very little water was used during construction as we didn't have electricity from the...

Hello, Getting ready to install a new softener system and had a question on the discharge line. I'm planning to use pex pipe for the discharge line since the flexibility will help with some obstacles. I'm planning to run the pex discharge line from the softener to my nearby sump pump pit...

Full disclosure: this is the first house I have lived in with a well, so I am not very familiar with all of the ins and outs of well operation. So lately I have been noticing that my submersible well pump will run even when no one in the house has been using water. In an attempt to isolate...

Great, thanks for the help. Glad to hear the guy knew what he was doing. I'll make the tweaks recommended above.

Hi there. I recently had a Fleck 9100 SXT installed by a plumbing company. They were very proficient with the plumbing portion, but I didn’t get a warm fuzzy that they knew much about programming the softener. The plumber made a comment that these were the programming values that he always...

I was also contemplating purchasing a softener from this same vendor. Interested to hear if anyone else has experience with them.