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Pro Tips Series #2: How to Maintain Your Water Softener for Optimal Efficiency and Quality of Water

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Welcome to our Pro Tips Series , where we share expert insights to help you keep your home water systems running at peak performance and maintain quality water for your family. In this edition, we’ll focus on how to maintain your water softener so it delivers efficient operation, protects your plumbing, and ensures consistently soft, high-quality water. Pro Tip #1: Check Salt Levels Regularly Inspect the brine tank monthly and keep salt at least half full. Don’t overfill—leave a few inches of headspace to promote proper brine formation and reliable regenerations. To ensure your water softener is working properly and efficiently, it helps to run the salt tank almost out of salt every six months to ensure there isn't any sediment, silt, or mushed salt at the bottom of the tank, which can cause the water softener to not draw brine and/or plug the venturi nozzle, which draws salt brine in to regenerate the resin. Many water treatment manufacturers offer remo...
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How Water Softeners Work

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Water softening systems are basically an appliance that treats incoming water to the home to remove hardness minerals (Calcium, Magnesium) present in water and provide conditioned, softened water for the home to protect plumbing fixtures and water-using appliances, to prevent hard water scale buildup, and iron staining. Making the home run more efficient. Water softeners/conditioners are not the solution to every water treatment problem. There are a myriad of water chemistry problems, such as high iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, and low PH, along with many other water problems that require different types of water treatment equipment to properly treat the water.  The first step in determining the proper water treatment solution is a comprehensive water analysis to determine water hardness, iron, and other water chemistry issues that may require more treatment options than just a water softener. Water softeners have six main components: 1. Control Valve 2. Dist...
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"Whole House Water Filters" part 1 - When, What, Why and How to use a whole house water filtration system.

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Water filters cover the gambit from simple faucet filters, refrigerator filters, in-line filters to filter housings with a replaceable filter cartridge to all types of whole house backwashing / regenerating filtration systems that remove, iron, odors, manganese, radium, lead, turbidity and a plethora of other water problems.  This subject covers such a wide range of water problems it could take many blog articles to cover just the basics of water filtration.   One thing I know for certain though is what the typical consumer considers a water filter and what a water treatment professional would consider a water filter are totally different.
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