water softener

Hi All, Let me first thank all of you for the tremendous resource you have been. For years I've read these forums, helping me tackle every aspect of plumbing repairs. THANK YOU for sharing your time and knowledge. I'm at the point where I need to install a water softener in our house. I...

Hello, We bought a house 6 months ago and noticed the water feeling different. Checked the water softener and noticed this (Attached Picture). I've never had a water softener before so I'm not sure if it's supposed to be brown like this. Another thing we noticed is the white tube to the right...

I am trying to install a water softer in the garage next to the main water shutoff. There is only a clean out plug on one of the walls. I wonder whether I can extend the clean out plug with a wye, and then add another wye to connect to a vent and a p-trap. The following diagram illustrates the...

Good morning! So, I purchased a Fleck 5600 SXT online and just installed it two evenings ago. Got most of it done right. Shut off the water, drained it, cut out the old one, installed the new one. Where I realized I missed the directions was in the actual opening up of the new softener...

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I replaced my existing water softener in my basement (which has no floor drain or sewer pipes). Whoever installed the previous unit for the former home owners ran polyethelyne line up to the ceiling and clamped it to a 90 degree bent copper pipe, which goes through the wall of the house and into...

I just moved into an apartment in a house the landlord recently bought. We're trying to get an old water softener working. He doesn't know anything about it from the prior owner. We get about 150 gallons of soft water each recycle. There's no iron in the water so we don't think the resin is...

NEW HOME OWNER/NEW TO WATER SOFTENING -Just bought a home with a pentair 7000 water softener softener is working I had a so called WATER DR come out and inspect my softener to troubleshoot softener. All he did was open my brine tank lid to see if i had salt in it and hit some buttons on on the...

Hi All, I recently purchased and installed a 32K 10% crosslink resin water softener with a Fleck 2510 SXT valve. My calculations led me to the 32K capacity: 9 grains hardness, 3 people, 2 bathrooms, and about 2,500 gallons per month usage. The install was simple and I immediately had soft...

Hi everybody! Need some help. I've been out of town for a few months and forgot to instruct the wife to refill the water softener with salt. I finally got around to it yesterday and filled it. This morning, I went to give the kids a shower and noticed the pressure start dropping. Within a...

Hello, I am helping redesign a relative's water treatment system. I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions. Right now they have a cartridge sediment filter and water softener (Eco); both are 20 years old. The softener uses a time clock for regeneration, doesn't soften down to zero anymore...

In our attempt to have soft, iron-free, and smell-free well water, we replaced a corroded anode and flushed our hot water heater with a chlorine solution. Before this, our water softener (Kinetico 60) was doing its job and kept our water soft and iron free (although we had the rotten egg smell...

I am interested in purchasing a Fleck 5600sxt and using calculators online, I think a 48,000 grain would suit me but I wanted to get your input. I calculated our water hardness to be about 22-25 as that's the high end of the range. Our water comes from the city and the report can be found...