When do I get salt for my waterer softener?
Rick installed a water softener because the water in this town sucks.
Now when I was growing up we had a water softener because the water in THAT town horrible. It had a a sulfer / rotten egg smell to it. (Didn’t stop me and the neighborhood kids from drinking untreated water from the hose when desperately needed tho!)
I remember hauling 50 pound bags of salt to the basement…but I don’t know what Dad did with it or when.
Cato has been bugging me about some thing….finally I realized the water softener was sounding odd.
What do I do?
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Find the manual and follow it’s instructions. If you lack the manual, find the make/model and use that to find the manual.
It might be like mine, in which case, you dump in a bunch of salt pellets for water softeners (different models might use a different form of salt). The receptacle on mine has enough room for several bags, but one is enough (just need to refill it when/before it runs out of salt). There’s a marker like a ruler all up the inside, which tells you the level number it’s full to (whatever the lowest number visible after adding the salt). You use the control panel to tell it the current salt level, and when you want it to “recharge”, and the current time (which can get randomized by a power outage, causing the noisy recharge process to make noise during the day – that might be what you’re not used to hearing). Then you just leave it alone until you remember to add more salt.
I’ve heard it groaning in the past but Rick said it was just recharghing.
This was a bit different.
Thanks Obama Cato.
Hardware store.
Check it once in a while.
Fill it to the line when under 50%
Mine sounds awful when it recharges, so I set it for 2am. But yes it probably also does sound different when it has run out of salt. You should be able to peer into it and see what the salt level is at.
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