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I live in the capitol height maryland area and is unable to find salt that you use for a water softening and purification system that i have placed on the water system for my house.
Lowes and Home Depot usually have them. They're in a really weird place though, so you should ask one of the workers.
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I'm new to the world of "well water" and I seem to be using a lot of salt in our softener. We're using about 40 pounds per month. Is this normal?
it would depend on your total hardness, and the number of people in your household, and the capacity of your resin tank. Being in the country I"m hoping you have a metered softner with at least a 50,000 grain tank. Outside of the town I live in, I've got a friend who had a 24000 grain mineral tank, four people in his household, his hardness was 46 grains. They were going through 60lbs of sodium a month, cause they thing had to regenrate so much. I helped him replace his mineral tank with a 50,000 grain tank, a Fleck metered head rather than his electronic one, and now he has soft water all the tiem and is using about 30lbs a month since the bigger mineral tanks don't regenerate as much. I'm hoping your softner is a metered one and not one of the older culligan units that regenerate every other day no matter how much you use. Trust me, stay away from the units/heads that have a computerized head. They mess up a lot.
there is a big platic tank filled about 1/5th of the way with salt pellets and water. a tube goes from this tank to the water purification tank that is a heavy, wound tank. the water is coming out of the tap with some contaminates in it.
You add more salt pellets to the holding tank as they are used up. You should never have to remove the pellets that are in there. If your tank is only 1/5th full, you should add more to fill it back up. If you are getting contaminates through your tap you will need to install/replace your filter. Remember, a water softener is not a water filter. If the contaminates (probably sand) are a permanent problem, than I would install a filter. If you install it where water first comes to your house from the main, then you are stopping contaminates from the source. Wait and see if this is a permanent problem though. New construction in the area or servicing to water mains or hydrants will cause sediment in water mains to come loose and eventually find their way to your taps. This normally stops.
Can you drink the water from the water softener system? Will it be salty? Does the filteration system help with hard water? Any info will really help! Thanks!
Water softening and water filtration are TWO different things. A water softener (with salt) softens the mineral content of the water (minerals make the water hard, but are healthy for you). Water filtration does NOT soften the water but instead, removes impurities, lead, etc., and minerals (removing minerals is not necessarily a good thing as you need the minerals in your body). If you drink water that has been doftened via a water softener you will NOT taste the salt, but of course you will be adding additional sodium to your diet and that would be bad if you have high blood pressure. There is a "bypass" valve on most softeners allowing for the drawing of unsoftened water. Also, DO NOT water your plants or the garden with soft water as it will ruin your plants.Pets should also be drinking UN-softened water, i.e., they should have hard water and get the mineral advantages.
I never drink faucet water so that's not a consideration at least with my situation.
don't listen to Paul. the magnets are a scam. they do not work. your best option is to take a sample of your water to your nearest Culligan or other water supplies. they can tell you how hard your water is and what options you have
Using Less Salt In Water Softeners
Utah water softener companies have made new improvements to this system. It now uses up to 75% less salt than the old system. This makes the water safer to drink and water plants with. The smaller amount of salt also helps to lengthen the life of appliances and plumbing. You still get the benefit of softer clothes and can use fewer detergents and skin care products.
This system works by using salt or sodium as a positively charged ion working with an exchange medium which gets coated with calcium and magnesium. The free sodium ions are released into the water where the water passing through the softener has its calcium and magnesium removed by this exchange.
Once the medium is coated with these particles, however, it needs to be recharged. This is done by flushing it with a brine solution that will replace the calcium and magnesium with new salt ions. This process has been refined by many Utah water softening companies so that less salt has to be used. Now you don’t have to flush the system everyday and you can still have soft water all the time.
...A Day In The Life: Water, softening and the headaches they cause
Rarely do I get truly scared about something but this is one of those times. Let's take a step back a few years to when we bought our house. It was the coldest day in January waaaaay back in 2005. We closed on the house on the only day which had snowfall and it was as close to a blizzard as we've had in this part of Minnesota for quite some time. The first full day in our house found me making two trips back to my old apartment to pick up the last remnants of our stuff and return the trailer I had rented. I also picked up some softener salt because, dammit, a water softener needs salt. I remember grabbing six bags because I was there and I had a relative's truck. I made my way back home and deposited the bags of salt into the softener. All was working well. Then about a year ago I noticed that the water felt hard. I was all too familiar with this due to the fact that while growing up on a farm, the hard and rusty well water would sometimes wreak havoc on the softener in the basement. My dad eventually became well accustomed to the quirks of it and could muddle through the mechanics of this foreign device on his own and save literally hundreds of dollars in service calls and expert repairs. He, of course, became my lifeline as I looked for help with my own water softener. Whatever I did worked. The softener started sucking up salt again and we had soft water. Since that time the water softener had wobbled between hard and soft water and because of the wife's leg lotion consumption, I am at a breaking point. I am confident after looking through some similar owner's manuals I found online that I can remove the valve assemble of the water softener control module and I have a good idea of what the problem is. This is where my fear comes in. What if I get the whole thing disassembled and because of the lack of any discernible model number (and the owner's manual being M.I.A.) can't get parts? What if I break the whole damn thing in a fit of frustration? What if I lose some integral part in my hasty disassembly as the wife makes me sweat while asking aloud "are you done yet?" or "do you know what you're doing?"? Or what if I fix the whole thing and can't get it reassembled? Those, my fellow do-it-yourselfers, are my fears.
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