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  • Writer's pictureDeborah K. McIntyre

How to Fix a Water Softener?

Updated: Dec 13, 2018

There are some straightforward reasons why a water softener glitches, but before getting into the fixes, first we should quickly review how it functions.


Untreated water enters the brackish water tank and winds up soaked with sodium (salt). The sodium-soaked water at that point enters the resin tank, where a great many little polystyrene dots draw in the sodium atoms, and the additional salt water is cleansed. The saline solution tank is refilled, and unsoftened water enters the resin tank, where the minerals that make water hard—calcium and magnesium—exchange places with the sodium and join themselves to the globules until there are no more sodium particles to make the exchange. Now, the cycle begins once again when the water softener regenerates by cleaning the hard minerals off the dots and depleting the wastewater. To get your delicate water streaming once more, here are three fixes you can without much of a stretch perform.




Fix 1. Clean the brackish water (salt) tank:


Ensure the salt hasn't shaped a hard vault or outside layer inside the brackish water tank. The salt arch can result from including excessively salt or including it too frequently. It will look as though you have salt although there's a major air take underneath. Break up the salt with a broomstick, at that point discard it. Remove any dregs with a shop vacuum. Utilize cleanser and water to clean altogether the tank (and the brackish water well inside the tank if you have one) and flush it.


Fix 2. Clean an iron-fouled resin bed:


If your water contains press, it will work in the long run.For refreshing the bed, run Iron-Out through the framework. Pursue the directions for the sum to add to the saltwater tank, at that point run your softener through a manual regeneration to cleanse the wastewater. To do this, extract the cover from the control valve and discover the regeneration handle. Utilize a level cutting edge screwdriver to depress the handle and turn it counterclockwise to "Administration."


Fix 3. Clean the resin tank injector:


The injector at times gets stopped with silt caused by filthy salt. To clean it, first, connect with the softener's detour valve to close off the water. Next, relieve the water pressure by running the softener through a manual regeneration. At long last, remove the tops on the two sides of the softener head. Altogether perfect the injector (right half of the head) and the injector screen (left side).



Required Tools for this Project:


*4-in-1 screwdriver


*Basin


*Shop vacuum


Required Materials for this Project:


Stay away from a minute ago shopping treks by having every one of your materials ready early. Here's a rundown.


Resolve

Set aside extra cash with Repairs


Before you replace your softener for $600 to $1,000, have it looked at by a water softener pro. The most costly repair likely won't surpass $200. The softener head can be redesigned for $60 to $100, or the resin bed can be replaced. Pursuit on the web or look in the business index under "Apparatus, Repair" and inquire as to whether they take a shot at softeners


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