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My water treatment bypass valve is leaking at the inlet. The supply pipe is connected to the bypass valve via a brass connector with an o-ring. The connector slips into the bypass valve and is held in place with an H clip. (It’s a Fleck 7000 unit) It leaks just below the H-clip. I’ve replaced...

Thank you, you just saved me some money. There's about 50 feet of 1 inch pipe between the water treatment and the hot water heater, so I'm assuming that is enough. I'm not overly concerned about the phantom flow so I think I'll skip the check valve.

We have a well that goes to 2 (parallel) bladder pressure tanks and then to a water treatment system (2 neutralizers in parallel) and then a softener. So: Well-->pressure tanks-->neutralizers->softener--> water heater. There are no check valves after the pressure tanks. A few years ago we...

I finally got the parts in to rebuild the fleck control unit (3 weeks of waiting!) and am going to attack that today or tomorrow. As part of the rebuild I'm going to replace the DLFC with the 10 gpm size. If anyone has tips for separating the system from the water lines (I'm hoping I just put...

Interesting. Would that much vacuum really be created on an 'open air' drain? It's just a buried 4 inch pipe, almost totally open on the output end (there is a cap, but I've drilled a bunch of holes in it). The softener is on the bottom floor, fed by a well. We've had pump failures and even a...

The hose is in a location where it doesn't get crimped, and the sound of the water running through it is barely noticeable even when standing right next to it, and certainly not audible from upstairs. (Unlike the flow of oil through through the lines from my oil tank to the boiler, which sound...

I'm not sure I could easily measure the output pressure. I say 'easily' because I'm sure I could temporarily plumb in a set of pipes with a pressure value. I'm quite sure (but not positive) that I have 'filter piston' because I ordered the flect and the tank specifically as a filter, not a...

Thanks. I've ordered the piston, seal spacer kit, and a 10 gpm DLFC. Oddly, my current unit (which has the elbow shaped DLFC, so I'm assuming has a 7 gpm button) has a 8 gpm flow restrictor mounted outside the control unit (between the elbow and the drain). This was how it was supplied. So I...

@dittohead: Your responses are super helpful, thanks. Just a few points of clarification for a newbie: 1. Would doing the rebuild of the seal and spacers as per your video also address the issue of untreated water possibly bypassing the unit? (The reason I ask is that on the part diagram, I see...

@dittohead: I'm assuming I can't do anything about the backwash rate to increase it? Also, how hard is a valve rebuild? I've seen the diagrams, and it looks like stacks of orings, is it as complicated as it looks to get it apart (and more importantly) back together again? I have no issue with...

I am wondering if there is something wrong with my neutralizer or if I need a rebed of the calcite. (Related: should I get a new tank?) Background: Raw water is Hardness 4.21 gpg > PH 6.03 > Iron .064 > TDS 120 I have two 2.5 cu foot neutralizers (13 x 54 inch tanks, with Fleck 7000 controls)...