Hello everyone! I have a Fleck but the water definitely is not soft right now. It seems to be intermittently soft and it's never really been super soft (no slippery feeling) since I had it installed by a plumber in September 2018. Everything was brand new at the time. New resin tank, new brine tank, all new drain lines, etc. I also opted to order the better resin ( I forget what it was called but it's manufactured in the US and was more expensive).
I have a fleck 5600 SXT electronic 3/4 inch meter on demand control valve 40000 grain capacity.
After reading things to look for I decided to clean out the brine tank. It looked really dirty but there are no salt bridges. Still I'm in the process of shoveling out all of the salt pellets and washing it out really good and getting out all the dirt. There is a plastic netting basket at the bottom that I took out of the brine tank and it seems to be cracked and broken in places. (Photos below).
How big of a deal is this? Should I wait and find a replacement or just keep using it and put the salt back as is?
I have a fleck 5600 SXT electronic 3/4 inch meter on demand control valve 40000 grain capacity.
After reading things to look for I decided to clean out the brine tank. It looked really dirty but there are no salt bridges. Still I'm in the process of shoveling out all of the salt pellets and washing it out really good and getting out all the dirt. There is a plastic netting basket at the bottom that I took out of the brine tank and it seems to be cracked and broken in places. (Photos below).
How big of a deal is this? Should I wait and find a replacement or just keep using it and put the salt back as is?