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Sat 4 Aug, 2007 11:38 am
My Rainsoft Water Softener had a bad case of mush.
I scooped it all out, cleaned the tank, cleaned the brine pickup, and generally got it back to square one.
I put a new 50lb block of salt into the tank as well as a 40lb bag of pellets.
I am unsure if I should have added water or what. I know you need water to make the brine from the salt - but I'm not sure how the water gets in there in the first place.
I did add some water up to about the top of th 50lb salt block but after I did that, I wondered if this was correct.
Hopefully H2OMan will set me straight.
My questions are these:
1. In a clean dry brine tank that has new salt in it - should I add water and if so, how much?
2. Where does the water come from that keeps the brine tank at the correct level?
Thanks,
Gene H
Panama City, FL
Gene, the easiest thing to do is manually put the softener into regeneration.
It will go through all of it's cycles and eventually put the correct measured amount of water into the salt tank.
I hope that helps.
Thanks... Later today, as I was thinking about it... I decided I had put way too much water into the tank. I got out the trusty wet/vac (again) and sucked all but about six inches of water. That put the water way down the salt block and everything looked "normal".
It's 10:30 now and I just put her in manual regeneration. Tomorrow morning will tell.
Thanks again!
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