Adding water softener to system

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Tremarshall

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Not sure if this is the place, but here is my delima. There is a pressure tank installed at a house I just bought, there is not a water softener or filter currently in place. I purchased a water softener and filter and have it in place now and am ready to hook them to the pressure tank and house, however I don't see a place to turn the pressure tank off while I make the connections and get the bypass in place. Can I simply turn the valve off coming in from the well to the pressure tank and the valve to the house and drain the pressure tank? Do I need to trip the breaker first as I find no on/off switch? it seems to me once the tank drains does it need to be primed some how when all the connections have been made and system turned back on (assuming I need to trip the breaker)?
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Yes. Open the breaker. Drain the pressure. There may be a drain valve near the pressure switch. As part of your operation, add a valve. Or two. I cannot tell where all of your piping goes, but you should be able to close a valve that is downstream from the pressure tank. Do not put a valve between the well and the pressure switch.

Keep an extra o-ring on hand for the cartridge filter. Otherwise, if you change cartridges and cannot reuse the old o-ring, your water system is out of service.
 

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Yes. Open the breaker. Drain the pressure. There may be a drain valve near the pressure switch. As part of your operation, add a valve. Or two. I cannot tell where all of your piping goes, but you should be able to close a valve that is downstream from the pressure tank. Do not put a valve between the well and the pressure switch.

Keep an extra o-ring on hand for the cartridge filter. Otherwise, if you change cartridges and cannot reuse the old o-ring, your water system is out of service.
Thank you, o-ring is good know, there is already a valve between the well and the pressure tank, I haven't added the last of the pipes because I needed to disconnect the pressure tank from the house inlet to complete that and will use the old pipe as part of my bypass away from the filter and water softener. So, since there is already a valve between the well and pressure tank...leave it open?
 

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Get rid of that valve between well and pressure tank, or at least somehow lock it open. Closing that valve would burn out the pump.
There is a gadget called a ball valve lockout.
 

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Or just take the handle off that ball valve. You will loose about 10 PSI going through softeners and filters. You may want to turn up the pressure switch to accommodate. When the tank goes bad switch to a PK1A kit with a 4.5 gallon size tank to save money, space, and have even stronger constant pressure.
 
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