help with water softners

My waterboss is dying and I need to buy a new compact unit but price is an issue can anyone help me please

Believe it or not the waterboss 900 has been great no problems for 3 years until now my water pressure has dropped to about 50% so I have bypassed the unit for now , some else said I should take the resin out and clean it and put it back in , I have ordered a resin cleaner to see if that will help

Giranger wrote:

Believe it or not the waterboss 900 has been great no problems for 3 years until now my water pressure has dropped to about 50% so I have bypassed the unit for now , some else said I should take the resin out and clean it and put it back in , I have ordered a resin cleaner to see if that will help

Three years is not a long time. Many industry standard softeners will go 10 years plus before requiring service but that is dependent on the water quality. Pre-built box store softeners like your Waterboss, Sears, Morton, GE, and the like tend to require service much sooner and much more often.

Are you on a water system or a well?

Had the water tested lately? Hardness, iron?

The Waterboss has a packed resin bed and can be fouled by iron in the water. Resin cleaner like Iron Out or Super Iron Out may help you this time. If it does then you should be using a resin cleaner on a routine schedule.

justalurker wrote:

Giranger wrote:

Believe it or not the waterboss 900 has been great no problems for 3 years until now my water pressure has dropped to about 50% so I have bypassed the unit for now , some else said I should take the resin out and clean it and put it back in , I have ordered a resin cleaner to see if that will help

Three years is not a long time. Many industry standard softeners will go 10 years plus before requiring service but that is dependent on the water quality. Pre-built box store softeners like your Waterboss, Sears, Morton, GE, and the like tend to require service much sooner and much more often.

Are you on a water system or a well?

Had the water tested lately? Hardness, iron?

The Waterboss has a packed resin bed and can be fouled by iron in the water. Resin cleaner like Iron Out or Super Iron Out may help you this time. If it does then you should be using a resin cleaner on a routine schedule.

I am on city water

Hardness : 8-11 grains/gallon
Alkalinity : 129 ppm
Iron : 0.035 ppm
Chloride : 28 ppm
ph : 805 units

justalurker wrote:

Giranger wrote:

Believe it or not the waterboss 900 has been great no problems for 3 years until now my water pressure has dropped to about 50% so I have bypassed the unit for now , some else said I should take the resin out and clean it and put it back in , I have ordered a resin cleaner to see if that will help

Three years is not a long time. Many industry standard softeners will go 10 years plus before requiring service but that is dependent on the water quality. Pre-built box store softeners like your Waterboss, Sears, Morton, GE, and the like tend to require service much sooner and much more often.

Are you on a water system or a well?

Had the water tested lately? Hardness, iron?

The Waterboss has a packed resin bed and can be fouled by iron in the water. Resin cleaner like Iron Out or Super Iron Out may help you this time. If it does then you should be using a resin cleaner on a routine schedule.

I am on city water

Hardness : 8-11 grains/gallon
Alkalinity : 129 ppm
Iron : 0.035 ppm
Chloride : 28 ppm
ph : 805 units

Giranger wrote:

justalurker wrote:

Giranger wrote:

Believe it or not the waterboss 900 has been great no problems for 3 years until now my water pressure has dropped to about 50% so I have bypassed the unit for now , some else said I should take the resin out and clean it and put it back in , I have ordered a resin cleaner to see if that will help

Three years is not a long time. Many industry standard softeners will go 10 years plus before requiring service but that is dependent on the water quality. Pre-built box store softeners like your Waterboss, Sears, Morton, GE, and the like tend to require service much sooner and much more often.

Are you on a water system or a well?

Had the water tested lately? Hardness, iron?

The Waterboss has a packed resin bed and can be fouled by iron in the water. Resin cleaner like Iron Out or Super Iron Out may help you this time. If it does then you should be using a resin cleaner on a routine schedule.

I am on city water

Hardness : 8-11 grains/gallon
Alkalinity : 129 ppm
Iron : 0.035 ppm
Chloride : 28 ppm
ph : 805 units

Try the Iron Out. May take two applications to unfoul the resin.

If the softener recovers then use resin cleaner routinely.

Please let us know how it works out.